Music for Everyone
March is Music in Our Schools Month. Sometimes when I take on a private student who has previously given up on, or has never had music lessons, they can very fearful. Grown men who tower over me tremble when they Read More …
Author: Cynthia K. Wunsch, M.M.
Cynthia Wunsch earned her Master of Music degree and performed in small regional opera companies in Europe. The daughter of two scientists, she has been interested in neuroscience since seeing an exhibit at the museum when she was two years old.
Vincente Lusitano
Thanks to some recently-published research, Vincente Lusitano is beginning to be retrieved from obscurity. Not only a composer skilled in the style of his day, he was also a music theorist and wrote a treatise on the art of singing. Read More …
Posture!
In the old days, many of us had to walk around with books on our heads to prove to our parents that we had good posture. I never succeeded at this because the top of my head is a little Read More …
Some Advice for Music Teachers Dealing with COVID-19 or Other Infectious Disease Outbreaks
What I have never put on my About Me page is that I started out as a premed major. Those of you who follow me on social media know that I have completed a course on COVID-19 from the London Read More …
Robert Nathaniel Dett
Dett is another of the composers fortunate enough to receive more recognition, so he has a lot of entries: Wikipedia AfriClassical A website devoted to Dett Entries in the Library of Congress AfroVoices BlackPast and, of course, his scores available Read More …
José Silvestre White Lafitte
Lafitte is another of those well-studied composers, as least as far as his biography is concerned. Here’s a roundup of resources: Wikipedia AfriClassical BlackPast Diesis&Bemolle (in Italian) Radio Habana Cuba (in Spanish) Foreign Musicians in Paris IMSLP Nothing on Read More …
Ignatius Sancho
Sancho has a Wikipedia Entry, an article published in Black History Month 2018, an article at the British Library, and numerous other articles written because he was the first person of color to vote in a British election, and because Read More …
Ludovic Lamothe
Lamothe is more widely studied than many Black composers, and so there are entries at: Wikipedia Africlassical in French at adrienberthaud.com a magazine article at Kreole, a brief biography and an analysis (in French) of his “Danza No. 3,” an article Read More …
Henry Thacker Burleigh
Burleigh has, of course, a Wikipedia page, a comprehensive page at Africlassical, and there is a collection of Burleigh’s works on IMSLP. Fortunately, he has a website devoted to him: The Burleigh Society. Related posts: Available on Amazon Everyone needs Read More …
Nicholas George Julius Ballanta
Ballanta has a Wikipedia article. There’s a World Heritage Encyclopedia article with a reasonable reference section, a Facebook fan page which is mostly empty, and an interesting legal question about his legacy. His musical scores can be found in a Read More …