Boosey & Hawkes is teaming up with Videmus Inc. to publish the previously unavailable catalog of music by Julia Perry. The composer, who died in 1979, was born in Kentucky and raised in Ohio. Her “Study for Orchestra’ was performed at the New York Philharmonic in 1965 and she was also the winner of Prix Fontainebleau and two Guggenheim Fellowships. {…}
The Experiential Orchestra and Videmus present the Julia Perry Centenary Celebration and Festival in New York City. Julia Perry (1924-79) was an African-American composer, born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Akron, Ohio. She spent two summers at the Berkshire Music Center, studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and briefly with Nadia Boulanger. She won the Prix Fontainebleau and two Guggenheim Fellowships, {…}
Photo: David Lees/Getty Images Among the many criminally unrecognized names in the American classical music canon, African-American female composer Julia Perry (1924-1979) represents the hidden aspect of the Black African-American compositional experience. Alongside other composers like Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Nora Holt, and male composers like William Grant Still, Vicente Lusitano, and “Black Mozart” Joseph Bologne, Perry’s contribution to America’s {…}
(Credit: Photo by Trans-Siberian Art Festival) On Nov. 18, 2021, The Orchestra Now will give its first Carnegie Hall concert of the season. The program will feature the world premiere of award-winning composer Scott Wheeler’s “Birds of America,” performed by violinist Gil Shaham, as well as the venue’s first full performance of Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater,” performed by mezzo-soprano Briana {…}