Boston’s award-winning LGBTQ+ and allied classical choir, Coro Allegro, will celebrate the 100th birthday of queer composer Daniel Pinkham with works for double choir, brass quartet, and organ on Mar. 12, 2023, at Church of the Covenant in Boston, MA. Pinkham was prolific as a composer. In addition, was a harpsichordist, organist, faculty member of the New England Conservatory, and {…}

Photo: Andrew Hurlbut New England Conservatory (NEC) unveiled a new portrait of Mary Cardwell Dawson by Iris Lee Marcus, which will be on permanent display at the conservatory’s Blumenthal Family Library. The painting recognizes her trailblazing career as a singer and her founding of the National Negro Opera Company (NNOC) in Pittsburgh in 1941. Dawson’s opera company provided Black artists {…}