Podcast appearances and mentions of Shawn E Okpebholo

Loki chats with composer Shawn E. Okpebholo about the idea of "music for music's sake", the importance he puts on responding to calls for social justice, and his latest release, "Songs in Flight". Loki compares backlash against Beyoncé's Grammy wins to society's general aversion to musical evolution and change. Support for TRILLOQUY comes from FeedSpot!Theme music by Soggy BeatsShawn E. OkpebholoSongs in FlightSongs in Flight Live from the Met MuseumBeyoncé Backlash ★ Support this podcast ★

Shawn Okpebholo was born in Lexington, Kentucky and a graduate of Tates  Creek High School.  He earned his doctoral degree in composition from the   University of Cincinnati's Celloge-Conservatory of Music.  Currently he serves   as the Jonathan Blanchard Distinguished Professor of Composition at   Wheaton College-Conservatory of Music and the Saykaly-Garbulinska   Composer-in-Residence with the Lexington Philharmonic. Two Black Churches is a song set in two movements for baritone soloist and   orchestra.  Originally composed for voice and piano, featuring baritone Will Liverman and pianist Paul Sanche, this orchestration was co-commissioned by   the Lexington Philharmonic during Shawn E. Okpebholo's tenure as the   Saykaly-Garbulnska Composer-in-Residence.​ Two Black Churches serves as a musical reflection of two significant and tragic events perpetrated at the hands of white supremacists in two Black churches, decades apart;The 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Birmingham, Alabama which took the lives of four girls.The 2015 Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, taking the lives of nine parishioners.

Grammy-nominated flutist Brandon Patrick George is a member of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany symphonies, American Composers Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, among others.  He's also on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. Suzanne spoke with Brandon Patrick George about his debut 2020 solo recording, and welcomed him back in Fall 2023 to talk about his second solo recording, TWOFOLD, which pairs solo flute works by composers such as C.P.E. Bach, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Claude Debussy with new works by composers including Reena Esmail, Saad Haddad, and Shawn E. Okpebholo.

Shawn E. Okpebholo is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning composer whose music has been described as “devastatingly beautiful” and “fresh and new and fearless” (The Washington Post), “affecting” (The New York Times), “searing” (The Chicago Tribune), “staggering” (The New Yorker), “lyrical, complex, singular” (The Guardian), and “powerful” (BBC Music Magazine). Host Stephen Rawson talks with him and features a wide range of his music.

History wrapped up in song: “Singing Freedom” with Tsitsi Jaji, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, and Ed Baptist. Soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, poet and associate professor of English at Duke Tsitsi Jaji, and Cornell professor of history Ed Baptist, talk with Annette about 'Singing Freedom,' a multi-layered collaboration with leading Black American composers and performers to create musical responses to materials in the Freedom on the Move archive. They talk about how music might give voice to those self-liberators and their stories, exploring ways the creative arts might grapple with racism in the past and present across literary and musical genres. This episode was recorded in September 2021 by Bert Odom Reed and produced by Eric Harvey. We are grateful to Shawn E. Okpebholo and Rhiannon Giddens for permission to reproduce their music. Excerpts heard in this episode are from: Rhiannon Giddens, “At the Purchaser's Option,” performed by Rhiannon Giddens from the album “Freedom Highway” (2017); Shawn E. Okpebholo, “The Rain” from “Two Black Churches” (poem by Marcus Amaker), performed by Will Liverman, baritone, and Paul Sánchez, piano from the album “Lord, How Come Me Here” (2022); and Shawn Okpebholo, “Oh, Freedom,” sung by Will Liverman, with Paul Sánchez (piano) from the album “Steal Away” (2014).  Lucy Fitz Gibbon has recently taken a full-time position at Bard College and Conservatory.

On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg joins Chicago baritone Will Liverman in conversation about his upcoming album Dreams of a New Day — Songs by Black Composers. Liverman's full-album Cedille debut showcases the tradition of African American art song and features a world-premiere by composer Shawn E. Okpebholo. https://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/dreams-of-a-new-day-songs-by-black-composers/

American Baritone Will Liverman talks with Central City Opera Education Coordinator Meg Ozaki Graves about his experiences as a Black opera singer, how he’s staying inspired during the pandemic and his thoughts on how arts organizations can move forward. Will was last seen at Central City Opera as Papageno in THE MAGIC FLUTE, 2018. Watch the video version of this interview on the new Opera Central series at centralcityopera.org. Learn more about Will Liverman, and follow his career at willliverman.com, on Facebook @WillLivermanBaritone and Instagram @Willie1525. Will was nothing short of iconic as an ostrich-mounted Papageno in Central City Opera's 2018 THE MAGIC FLUTE. Take a look at the magical production, dreamed out of a toy theater in a Victorian nursery, in photos and video. Read about Will's historical performance as the first-ever Black baritone to sing Papageno at the Metropolitan Opera last January on OperaWire.  The virtual concert discussed in this episode—"Will Liverman Live in Concert with Paul Sánchez" with Valhalla Media Live—is no longer available, but Will's albums and many other recordings are available on his website. Composers featured on his recital included Shawn E. Okpebholo, Robert Owens, Margaret Bonds and Damien Sneed. You can listen to Okpebholo’s “Two Black Churches,” referenced in the episode, on YouTube. Will is a versatile performer who excels in styles ranging from classic opera to popular music. One of our favorites is his arrangement of "Smile."  Finally, to all the other artists out there, Will Liverman has a message for you... LEARN YOUR MUSIC! He'll preach it to anyone who'll listen — if this doesn't inspire you, nothing will!

De grenzen van de klassieke muziek opgezocht in de Late Night Show van Vrije Geluiden, waarin vanavond Venetië, filmmuziek, en een stukje gitaarconcert van Andre Previn. Met muziek van Gabrieli, Willaert, Previn, Jeff Russo, Shawn E. Okpebholo en ORBI.