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* Today in Black History - July 11 *
1836 - Ant=F4nio Carlos Gomes is born in Campinas, Brazil. He will become
the most distinguished nineteenth-century Brazilian opera composer,
who will also achieve considerable success in Europe. Gomes will be
the second son of Fabiana Maria J. Cardoso and Manuel Jos=E9 Gomes,=
a
composer and bandleader born to a black freedwoman and an unknown
father. Manuel Jos=E9 also taught piano and violin in Campinas and
will introduce his two young sons to the rudiments of music. Ant=F4=
nio
Carlos will debut publicly at the age of 11, playing the triangle i=
n
his father's orchestra in a ceremony honoring Emperor Pedro II. He
will study clarinet, violin, and piano, for which he will compose
his first pieces. His brother Jos=E9 Pedro de Santana Gomes will st=
udy
violin and viola and later became Brazil's most important late-
nineteenth-century violinist. In 1859 Ant=F4nio Carlos Gomes will
enroll in the Rio de Janeiro Conservatory of Music. He had already
composed his first mass (1854) and will soon be commissioned to
write a cantata by the conservatory's director, Francisco Manuel da
Silva.The reigning master of Brazilian opera, Ant=F4nio Carlos Gome=
s
will achieve world renown in 1870 when his opera Il Guarany premier=
s
at La Scala in Milan, Italy. Although he will adhere to the
conventions of mid-nineteenth-century Italian opera, he will look t=
o
Afro-Brazilian themes for some of his operas and instrumental works=
=2E
Following the premiere of his cantata The Last Hour at Calvary (185=
9),
Gomes will be appointed conductor at the Imperial Academy of Music =
and
National Opera. Gomes will write two operas Il Guarany (1870) and L=
o
Schiavo (1889) which drew on Brazilian subjects. In 1893 Gomes will
tour the United States, where he will conduct some of his works at
Chicago's Columbia Universal Exhibition. Appointed to head the
Conservatory of Music in Bel=E9m, he will return to Brazil in 1895,=
but
will succumb to cancer three months after assuming the directorship
on September 16, 1896 in Bel=E9m, Brazil.
1925 - Mattiwilda Dobbs is born in Atlanta, Georgia. She will become a
coloratura (a soprano specializing in florid ornamental trills & ru=
ns)
in the 1950's, making her operatic debut at La Scala in Milan in 19=
53
and her U.S. debut with the San Francisco Opera in 1955. She will
become the first African American to sing at La Scala and the secon=
d
African American woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York.
1931 - Thurston Theodore Harris is born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He will
become a rhythm and blues vocalist. He will be best known for his
recordings of "Little Bitty Pretty One," and "Over and Over." He wi=
ll
join the ancestors in Pomona, California after succumbing to a hear=
t
attack on April 14, 1990.
1951 - Bonnie Pointer is born in Oakland, California. She will become a si=
nger
and member of the vocal group, The Pointer Sisters. The four siste=
rs
will begin their career singing gospel music and will eventually de=
but
in 1973 as a secular group recording for ABC/Blue Thumb Records. In
1974, the Pointer Sisters will perform at the Grand Ole Opry, becom=
ing
the first African American female group to do so. They also will be=
come
the first African American female group to be number one on Billboa=
rd's
country and western chart. They will change to a trio in 1977 when
sister Bonnie signs as a solo act with Motown Records. The group wi=
ll
be best known for their hits "Slow Hand" (1981), "What a Surprise"
(1981), "Excited" (1982), "I Need You" (1983), and the Grammy Award=
-
winning "Jump" (1983) and "Automatic" (1984).
* Today in Black History - July 12 *
1958 - "Yakety Yak", by The Coasters, becomes the number one song in the co=
untry,
according to "Billboard" magazine. It is the first stereo record t=
o
reach the top of the chart.
1979 - Minnie Ripperton, a singer best known for her recording of "Lovin' Y=
ou,"
joins the ancestors after succumbing to cancer at the age of 32.
* Today in Black History - July 13 *
1985 - The first "Live Aid", an international rock concert in London,
Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, takes place to raise money for Afr=
ica's
starving people. Over $70 million is collected for African famine
relief.
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