Beatrice Nicolas discusses the folk idioms and civil rights struggles that inspired the composition of Margaret Bonds' Troubled Water, which the British concert pianist recorded on her 2024 EP Black and Classical a mere four years after the suite was finally published.
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Beatrice Nicolas discusses the folk idioms and civil rights struggles that inspired the composition of Margaret Bonds' Troubled Water, which the British concert pianist recorded on her 2024 EP Black and Classical a mere four years after the suite was finally published.
Award-winning pianist and Black Chicago Renaissance scholar Dr. Samantha Ege introduces listeners to composer and pianist Helen Eugenia Hagan, who wrote a virtuosic piano concerto while still a student at Yale University. Dr. Ege also recounts her 2022 collaboration to bring the work back to the stage where it debuted more than a century earlier.
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Beatrice Nicolas discusses the folk idioms and civil rights struggles that inspired the composition of Margaret Bonds' Troubled Water, which the British concert pianist recorded on her 2024 EP Black and Classical a mere four years after the suite was finally published.
