Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected.
You could call the new album another encouraging result of the push in recent years, especially after the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, to better represent and reward the work of great Black composers in classical music — or you could just call it long overdue. Either way, it's good news when leading lights like Jessie Montgomery and Tyshawn
