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Kris Bowers, Composer. Performs themes from Queen Charlotte

#Kris Bowers #composer #black composers #queen charlotte #bridgerton #cinematography #music #movies #Youtube

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Leontyne Price, Kennedy Center Honors Legends interview (source)

"My voice... my voice is me--what can I say? My voice is what I think life is. My voice is beauty, my voice is America, my voice is my blackness, my voice is love, my voice is...is uh, my voice is...is God."

#leontyne price #opera #on singing #the voice #living legend #opera singer #opera diva

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miranda silveira rehearsing dying swan for world aids day

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Precious Adams in La Sylphide (English National Ballet) 

#ballet #dance

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Sasha Mallory & Kent Boyd. SYTYCD, Season 8 / Choreographer: Tyce Diorio / Fool of Me - Meshell Ndegeocello

#dance #modern #lyrical #sytycd

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Doreen Ketchens performs with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" on Clarinet

“OMG she’s not blowing with her lungs. She’s blowing with her soul.”

“She beat my emotional vocabulary. In her own world, she took me out of mine.”

“When you hear “whoos” in an orchestral concert, something truly special is happening.”

#new orleans jazz #Doreen Ketchens #instrumentalist #clarinet #jazz

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precious adams and xola putye photographed performing as aurora and a suitor in sleeping beauty by ruth smith

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‘…the mesmerizing talent of Njioma Chinyere Grevious, a rising star in the world of classical music.’

Njioma recently took home the Robert F. Smith First Prize and the Audience Choice award at the 2023 Sphinx Competition for her stunning violin performance.’ She plays Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Concerto for Violin in G Minor, op. 80, Movement I: Allegro Maestoso with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Kalena Bovell.

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Njioma is also a graduate of The Juilliard School and a winner of its John Erskine Prize for scholastic and artistic achievement. She has appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Philharmonic and the Western Michigan Symphony and is a founding member of the award-winning Abe Quartet

#njioma chinyere grievous #njioma grievous #kalena bovell #violist #violin #symphony

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Soprano Martina Arroyo, ca. 1970

She was among the first of a generation of black opera singers to break down racial barriers and achieve worldwide success as one of the world’s leading sopranos in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties.

#Martina Arroyo #opera singer #opera history

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Kathleen Battle - Ach, ich fühl's, The Magic Flute, Mozart

#Youtube

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#leontyne price #opera singer #soprano

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Let's talk about control. There is power in relinquishing control of your instrument as a singer. A voice teacher once told me, "you have to learn the rules so that you can break them". This space of freedom where you can tell the voice what to do (you've practiced the notes and the phrases and know them like the back of your hand) then you let yourself get lost in the sentiment of the piece...this is where art happens--where magic happens. To have all the tools and the skill level to break the rules for a few seconds and just let the voice dance in space and time. Notes, breath, air, feeling... That's what I hear in performances that I keep coming back to. This is the power of letting yourself become powerless, just a vessel from which art flows. This is great singing. This is what great singers do...in all genres, all languages, in sold out concert halls, in small local churches... This is how you move an audience...by allowing them to feel with you. When a performer reaches into that space, we literally hang on every word. - H

Watch "Concierto Concha Buika" on YouTube

#concha buika #singer #jazz #musica tropicale #live performance

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carmen de lavallade photographed performing in john butler’s portrait of billie by jack mitchell

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"Beginning Stages - A look into Solange’s songwriting process & jam sessions that shaped ASATT"

This part of Solange's ASATT story has been so inspiring to me. To have carried a song --a personal testimony, for 8 years...to be on the outside of that emotional space but circle back to that piece and craft it into a beautiful work of art...then for that work of art, once released, to touch so many people (myself included) --that just amazes me. Sometimes as artists we want to push our ideas out just to have something out in the world...or we feel this pressure to get eyes on our art to prove our worth (to the world...to our peers...or ourselves) but timing is everything. I believe there's a dance between the artist, the work, and God (the universe, fate, etc.)...and I believe that life, sometimes, waltzes us for a while then spins us into a quick foxtrot unexpectedly...but everything happens in it's own time. Everything will happen exactly when it's supposed to happen. xo, Earth

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Leontyne Price and Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi acknowledge the cheers after their performance in ”A Masked Ball” at the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center, on April 16, 1966 in New York. Photo:AFP/Getty Images.

#leontyne price #opera singer #themet

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"Una Voce poco fa" from Ill Barbiere di Siviglia - Rossini sang by Pretty Yende

This is a Pretty Yende stan account.

#pretty yende #opera singer #soprano #in recital #rossini #YouTube