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Newsletter – October 2024

by Mia Pistorius | Oct 22, 2024 | Forum

In this newsletter:
– BORN at SASRIM 2024
– New operas in South Africa and the US
– Community news

Newsletter – February 2024

by Mia Pistorius | Feb 9, 2024 | Forum

In this newsletter:
– Launch of the Journal of Black Opera and Music Theatre (J-BOM)
– Community news
– Upcoming events

BORN collaborates with the South African Society for Research in Music Conference 2024

by Mia Pistorius | Jan 22, 2024 | Forum

BORN is partnering with the South African Society for Research in Music for their annual conference 2024.

Wayne Muller on Opera in Cape Town: The Critic’s Voice

by Mia Pistorius | Nov 26, 2023 | Forum

BORN interviews Wayne Muller about his first monograph, Opera in Cape Town: The Critic’s Voice (Stellenbosch, 2023)

BORN members on Rhiannon Giddens’ and Michael Abels’ opera, Omar

by Mia Pistorius | Nov 18, 2023 | Forum

BORN working team member Naomi André has published a short reflection on Rhiannon Giddens’s and Michael Abels’s new opera, Omar, on the website of Carolina Performing Arts. We include a link to the article, titled ‘Sounding the Shadows as Omar...

AMS Prize for BORN Working Team Member!

by Mia Pistorius | Nov 18, 2023 | Forum

BORN working team member Kristen Turner, along with co-author Horace J. Maxile, Jr., has received the 2023 AMS Teaching Award for their volume, Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teachers’ Guide (Routledge, 2022). The prize committee...