Daily Classical Music Post

This February, the Daily Classical Music Post celebrates Black composers and musicians whose music has been suppressed and ignored. All of these musicians should be added to the music history and music theory curriculum. https://youtu.be/iRYQhfFDuOM Zenobia Powell Perry (1908–2004) composed songs, orchestral music, chamber works, an opera, and piano pieces. As a child, she studied the piano with a student of R. Nathaniel Dett, and went on to study with Dett privately before attending the Tuskegee Institute to study education and music. After graduating, as Jeannie Gayle Pool says, “she headed a black teacher-training program, supervised in part by Eleanor Roosevelt, who became a friend, ally and mentor. . . . Additional studies in composition were with French composer Darius Milhaud, Allan Willman, and Charles Jones.” Perry did not begin composing seriously until she was well into her 30s. She was more interested in teaching and composing for her students and for the ensembles at the i