Posts tagged Thapelo Masita
Composition for Abolition: How Sound Off is Changing the Nation One Note at a Time
Composition for Abolition: How Sound Off is Changing the Nation One Note at a Time

Saturday, February 27 at 7 p.m. EST, Sound Off: Music for Bail will present a live-streamed concert featuring string quartets by Florence Price, Yaz Lancaster, and George Walker with the support of the Groupmuse Foundation’s Planetary Music Movement (PMM).

The abolitionist musical collective Sound Off: Music for Bail celebrates Black composers and raises money for national bail funds in a live-streamed concert on Groupmuse, an online concert platform.

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artist feature, chamber music, commissions, composers, justice reform, music, new release, premieres, social justice, strings, video, virtual concertsChristine EscobarNjioma Grevious, Curtis Stewart, Kayla Williams, Thapelo Masita, Tatiana Hill, Sound Off, Black composers, Yaz Lancaster, De’Siree Reeves, Dara Hankins, Groupmuse Foundation’s Planetary Music Movement
Sound Off: Music For Bail x The City Reliquary: Dorothy Rudd Moore & More
Sound Off: Music For Bail x The City Reliquary: Dorothy Rudd Moore & More

Sound Off: Music for Bail will host a livestream premiere at 7 p.m. EST on November 14 from Brooklyn’s City Reliquary museum featuring Dorothy Rudd Moore’s “Modes”, Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 4, Op. 44 No. 2, and William Grant Still's “Lyric Quartette”. The evening’s performance of Moore’s "Modes" will be the first ever full recording of this work.

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chamber music, composers, justice reform, music, premieres, social justice, virtual concertsChristine EscobarDorothy Rudd Moore, Felix Mendelssohn, William Grant Still, Sound Off: Music For Bail, City Reliquary, Giancarlo Latta, Argus Quartet, Njioma Grevious, Abeo Quartet, Jay Julio, Thapelo Masita, Uhuru Quartet, Kyle Carrero Lopez