Day 25:

#Blackhistorymonth2022
I Can Compose

Laura Mvula: Green Garden

open.spotify.com/track/1SniLCGH…

We love this #collaboration for LAURA MVULA’s Sing to the Moon 🌙 featuring Michelle Willis and Snarky Puppy.

🎙’sing to the moon 🌝 and the ✨ stars will shine’ 🎶 - LAURA MVULA 💜

I Can Compose #blackhistory #music #tuesdayvibe

Today we celebrate Eunice Kathleen Waymon - Nina Simone - as part of the I Can Compose #blackhistory #Calendar 🙌🏾.

“It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.” #CivilRights

#October #inspiring #BlackWomen

Day 24:

#Blackhistorymonth2022
I Can Compose

Nina Simone: Backlash Blues (1967)

open.spotify.com/track/2bdapwYV…

Have you seen our range of student listening packs? Baroque to Contemporary Composers (everything in between)
Descriptive Music
Lin Manuel-Miranda
Xmas Listening
Film Music
Female Film Composers
Minimalist Music
Musical Theatre

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Another musical Google Doodle!

Slim Dusty was an Australian singer and songwriter who recorded over 100 albums and sold over seven million copies during a career spanning nearly seven decades.

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Day 24 of our #BlackHistoryMonth listening calendar is pianist, singer, composer and civil rights activist Nina Simone.

Simone attended the prestigious The Juilliard School and in 2108 was inducted into the Rock Hall.

Getting ready for Halloween? 🎃

Take a look at our blog post by Dr Matt Lawson on How to Compose Horror Music!

icancompose.com/how-to-compose…

#HalloweenMusic #HorrorMusic #MondayMusic

Today for #blackhistory I Can Compose listening calendar we are loving this track by BRITs winning #musician Celeste 🙌🏾.

#sundayvibes with this retro-soul number 👌🏾.

#soulmusic #RnB #neosoul #singersongwriter

Day 22 of our #BlackHistoryMonth listening calendar is Nigerian composer Chief Olufela Obafunmilayo 'Fela' Sowande MBE!

During his career he was theatre organist for the @bbc and was made a Fellow Trinity Laban.

Day 22:

#Blackhistorymonth2022
I Can Compose

Fela Sowande: African Suite II. Nostalgia: Andante

open.spotify.com/track/3TlmldaR…

Today via I Can Compose we celebrate the amazing Nigerian musician and composer Fela Sowande MBE 🙌🏿.

Fela brought West African techniques into his Classical music 🇳🇬

It is impossible to listen to this piece and not smile.
#BlackHistoryMonthUK #happy #westafrica #classical

#BornOnThisDay in 1811 - Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist: Franz Liszt.

Liszt was an incredibly driven musician, practising 4-5 hours a day and doing finger exercises whilst reading.

Image: U Discover Music

Day 21:

#Blackhistorymonth2022
I Can Compose

Ayanna Witter-Johnson: Rise Up

open.spotify.com/track/6cBdGZNl…

Harris Federation Music I Can Compose Nitin Sawhney Thank you 🙏🏾🥰

Our musical celebration for #BlackHistory month today features Ayanna Witter-Johnson. I Can Compose listening calendar is a piece from Nitin Sawhney’s outstanding album ‘Immigrants’.

Listen to the cello & piano sing as Ayanna Witter-Johnson adds her beautiful vocal line 👌🏾.

#immigrants #music

More tunes for #BlackHistoryMonth with I Can Compose Wynton Marsalis - Blues Symphony wyntonmarsalis.org/videos/view/bl…
Yolanda Brown - Fine Line youtube.com/watch?v=IE_ySN… #verulamforlife #teachingmusic

Day 21 of our #BlackHistoryMonth listening calendar is English singer-songwriter, cellist and composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

A Trinity Laban alumna, Witter-Johnson has had music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.