Chineke!/ Heyward/ نقد فرشته آبی – نمایش با تاخیر برای آهنگساز فراموش شده سیاه پوست

Chineke!/ Heyward/ Angel Blue review – belated premiere for forgotten Black composer

Royal Albert Hall, London A suite of reconstructed dance pieces from 1918 by Edmund Thornton Jenkins made a moving start to Chineke!’s Prom, where soprano Angel Blue sang Barber’s nostalgic Knoxville and Dvořák’s Symphony No 8 made a breathless finale Slowly but surely, our perceptions of what a composer looked like in the early 20th century are widening. Chineke!’s ongoing mission to unearth music by forgotten…