A. Kori Hill As a classical musician, one of the main things we do–besides get better at our instrument or voice type, is audition. Whether for school, an opera company, […]
Kori Hill, musicologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
A. Kori Hill If you’ve visited Downtown Cincinnati, you may have stepped or stayed in the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza. It’s part of the Carew Tower structure. But you may […]
Kori Hill, musicologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
A. Kori Hill When you need to learn more about a topic, where do you go? Maybe you look up info on Wikipedia; maybe you go to your teacher and […]
Kori Hill, musicologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
A. Kori Hill Thomas Greene Wiggins was born in 1849 in Columbus, Georgia. He grew up with his parents, Charity and Mingo Wiggins, on the plantation of Colonel James Bethune. […]
Kori Hill, musicologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
In my last blog, I wrote about the musical legacy of the 369th Infantry or the Harlem Hellfighters. I referenced the fact that while we think of this as an […]
Kori Hill, musicologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
A. Kori Hill There are times when your dream isn’t derailed but postponed. That can happen for a variety of reasons. For Irene Britton Smith (1907–1999), it was because of […]
Kori Hill, musicologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
A. Kori Hill A few posts ago, we discussed signifyin(g): a formal process in Black music where older material is quoted and transformed into a new context. You can hear […]
Kori Hill, musicologist and professor at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
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Composer Teachers and their Students Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov spent years as a professor
Conservative professors didn’t like him because he introduced new forms of music
father wouldn’t let her, so she wound up being taught privately by Conservatory professors
