Perry was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1924, and launched her career in the early 1950s with the success of her choral work Stabat Mater. She won Guggenheim fellowships, studied with Nadia Boulanger in ...
Kellen Gray has reunited with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) in this second installment of African American Voices, featuring the first commercial recordings of three landmark orchestral ...
A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected. Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor ...
This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Perry was born in Lexington, Ky., in ...