Writing

Some of my recent writing:

Academic Work

• “‘Strange What Cosmopolites Music Makes of Us’: Classical Music, the Black Press, and Nora Douglas Holt’s Black Feminist Audiotopia,” Journal of the Society for American Music 14, no. 3 (August 2020): 308-336.
• “Race and History on the Operatic Stage: Caterina Jarboro Sings Aida,” in African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity, ed. Sharrell D. Luckett (Bucknell University Press, 2019).

Essays

• A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera, Culture Desk, The New Yorker online (2017)
• After November 8: Music in Moments of Crisis, National Sawdust Log (2016)
• The Improbable Rise of the First African American Opera Impresario, San Francisco Classical Voice (2017)
• “The only true history of the times”: African American History Onstage, In the Wings, Boston Lyric Opera (2018)
• “We can tell our own stories,” on Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ Juneteenth Concert, Opera News (2020)

Profiles & Interviews

• “The Art, the Play, and the Rigor,” profile of Claire Chase, Harvard Magazine (2018)
• Courtney Bryan: Creativity, Collaboration, and Completing the Picture, National Sawdust Log (2018)
• It’s Alive, Symphony (2018)
• We, the Artists, Symphony (2017)

Program Notes 

• Grand Pianola Music (music of John Adams, Courtney Bryan, George Lewis), Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center (2018)
• The Complexity and Humanity of Floria Tosca, Boston Lyric Opera (2017)
• The Personal, Political Leonard Bernstein, Boston Lyric Opera (2018)
• Men and Women, Music and Words, on Cosi fan tutte, Seattle Opera (2018)

Reviews

• At the Prototype Festival, Opera Gets Good and Difficult, San Francisco Classical Voice (2017)
• Cellist Amanda Gookin Goes It Alone at National Sawdust, San Francisco Classical Voice (2017)
• Sound and Silence: Miya Masaoka Evokes a World of Emotions, San Francisco Classical Voice (2017)

Digital & Public Humanities 

• “The Great Dvorak Dead”: Sylvester Russell Assesses Dvorak’s Musical Legacy, Black Quotidian (2016)
• Commentary, The Digital Colored American Magazine (2017)