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THE VISIBLE MAN

With Richard Danielpours new opera, Margaret Garner, based on the true antebellum story of a black woman who murders her children rather than see...
Opera News, 02/01/06 by Story, Rosalyn M · More from publication
LIVES

APPRECIATION Unfinished Symphony Too few Americans knew his name, and throughout his varied career, too few concert halls and recording studios...
Crisis, The, 05/01/04 by Story, Rosalyn · More from publication
The unsinkable Shirley Verrett

A diva's life is marked by constant motion - jetting from one engagement to another, changing time zones, longitudes and latitudes until cities,...
Opera News, 09/01/03 by Story, Rosalyn M · More from publication
Edgy Texas romp stars Motley Crew

"If you write simply, the larger themes will come," said Suzan-Lori Parks about her play Topdog/Underdog, which in the spring of 2002 garnered her...
Crisis, The, 05/01/03 by Story, Rosalyn · More from publication
Where have all the opera divas gone?

Speak the word diva and a host of images springs to mind. Originally, it meant opera's "divine one," a mortal goddess on whom the muse had smiled,...
Crisis, The, 05/01/03 by Story, Rosalyn · More from publication
Black strings: The symphony of a people and an instrument

music On a spring day in 1841, Solomon Northrup set out from his Saratoga Springs, N.Y.. home, his beloved violin in tow, to provide musical...
New Crisis, The, 09/01/02 by Story, Rosalyn · More from publication

Trio offers a change of tenor

music In the long history of opera little has changed. After 400 years, the tenor still rules.While opera's leading ladies of the last decades -...
New Crisis, The, 03/01/02 by Story, Rosalyn · More from publication
Rediscovering the majesty of composer Florence Price

Crisis Forum Price - the first nationally recognized Black woman composer wrote some 300 works, but is largely forgotten. Even among classical...
New Crisis, The, 11/01/01 by Story, Rosalyn · More from publication
Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey

Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey by Allan Keifer Scribner 448 pp. $30 Born on the cusp of one century and living nearly into the next,...
Opera News, 10/01/00 by Story, Rosalyn M · More from publication
Guardians of peace in bronze

The Freedman's Cemetery was created in Dallas in 1869 four years after Texan slaves had been emancipated. Urban growth and progress constantly led...
American Visions, 10/01/98 by Rosalyn M. Story · More from publication