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)
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)
