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* Today in Black History - July 10 *
1936 - Billie Holiday records "Billie's Blues" for Okeh Records in New
York. Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw and Cozy Cole supported Holiday,
instrumentally, on the track.
1941 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton joins the ancestors in Los Angeles,
California at age 56. The innovative piano soloist, composer, and
arranger claims to have invented jazz and makes a series of
recordings for the Library of Congress that immortalizes his
style. Fifty years after his death, playwright George C. Wolfe
will present a well-regarded play on Morton's life, "Jelly's Last
Jam."
* Today in Black History - July 11 *
1836 - Antonio 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 Jose Gomes, a
composer and bandleader born to a black freedwoman and an unknown
father. Manuel Jose also taught piano and violin in Campinas and
will introduce his two young sons to the rudiments of music.
Antonio Carlos will debut publicly at the age of 11, playing the
triangle in 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, Jose Pedro de Santana
Gomes, will study violin and viola and later became Brazil's most
important late-nineteenth-century violinist. In 1859 Antonio 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,
Antonio Carlos Gomes will achieve world renown in 1870 when his
opera Il Guarany premiers at La Scala in Milan, Italy. Although he
will adhere to the conventions of mid-nineteenth-century Italian
opera, he will look to Afro-Brazilian themes for some of his operas
and instrumental works. Following the premiere of his cantata The
Last Hour at Calvary (1859), Gomes will be appointed conductor at
the Imperial Academy of Music and National Opera. Gomes will write
two operas Il Guarany (1870) and Lo 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 Belem, he will return to Brazil in 1895, but will succumb to
cancer three months after assuming the directorship on September
16, 1896 in Belem, Brazil.
1925 - Mattiwilda Dobbs is born in Atlanta, Georgia. She will become a
coloratura (a soprano specializing in florid ornamental trills &
runs) in the 1950's, making her operatic debut at La Scala in
Milan in 1953 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 second 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
will join the ancestors in Pomona, California after succumbing to a
heart attack on April 14, 1990.
1951 - Bonnie Pointer is born in Oakland, California. She will become a
singer and member of the vocal group, The Pointer Sisters. The
four sisters will begin their career singing gospel music and will
eventually debut in 1973 as a secular group recording for ABC/Blue
Thumb Records. In 1974, the Pointer Sisters will perform at the
Grand Ole Opry, becoming the first African American female group to
do so. They also will become the first African American female
group to be number one on Billboard'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 will 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
country, according to "Billboard" magazine. It is the first stereo
record to reach the top of the chart.
1979 - Minnie Ripperton, a singer best known for her recording of "Lovin'
You," joins the ancestors after succumbing to cancer at the age of
32.
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