Reflections of Us

Go deeper with Dr. Derrick Fox: https://youtu.be/2y8Mu4cmdZU

In episode 1 of Reflections of Us, Dr. Fox talked about the Cycle of Socialization and Oppression. Find out more about it here.

Listen to a great conversation with Laura Downes on the intersectionality of her life and music.

Find out more about Omar Thomas and experience more of his wonderful classical music and learn about how he marries cultures in his life and music.

Playlist:

• Xavier Foley’s Shelter Island, performed by Randall Goosby (vln) and Xavier Foley (double bass)
• Jessye Norman singing Schubert’s Ave Maria with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
• The Aquarium and the Seal Lullaby from Camille Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals, performed by the Kanneh-Mason family
• I. Testimony and II. Shout from Omar Thomas’ Come Sunday, performed by the Baylor University Wind Ensemble, conductor Eric Wilson
• Johnson’s March from Frank Johnson, performed by Matthew H. Phillips and his Symphony Orchestra of America
• Florence Price’s Adoration, performed by Randall Goosby
• Lara Downes’ Spiritual Suite III. Troubled Water, performed by Lara Downes
• Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de St. Georges: String Quartet No 1, movements I and II performed by the Juilliard String Quartet

Go deeper with Dr. Derrick Fox: https://youtu.be/IPnm25kCdl4

In episode 2 of Reflections of Us, Dr. Fox talked about covering. Read more about it in this article.

Read about Margaret Rosezarian Harris, the first woman to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Explore African American Shape Note Singing.

Hear Barbara Croall talk more about Nbiidaasamishkaamiin.

Playlist:

• Jennifer Higdon’s “Reel Time” from Southern Harmony, performed by the Ying Quartet
• Randall Thompson’s Alleluia, played by the Ying Quartet
• Inside the Pearly Gates”: field recording from Florida-Alabama African American Shape Note Singing
• Toru Takemitsu’s “Green”, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa conducting
• John Williams, “Freedom’s Call” from the movie Lincoln (Chicago Symphony)
• Barbara Croall’s Nbiidaasamishkaamiin; Ensemble Made in Canada
• Mozart’s Abendempfindung an Laura, K. 523, Measha Brueggergosman
• Eric Whitacre’s Sleep, performed by the Northwestern University Wind Symphony, led by Mallory Thompson
• George Quincy’s Choctaw Nights

Go deeper with Dr. Derrick Fox: https://youtu.be/IPnm25kCdl4

In episode 3 of Reflections of Us, Dr. Fox talked about the multitude of meanings that go along with the term diversity. Diversity – Refers to all aspects of human difference, social identities, and social group differences, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, creed, gender expression , sexual expression, socio-economic status, language, culture, national origin, religion/spirituality, age, (dis)ability, military/veteran status, political perspective, and associational preferences and religion.

Read more about the concept of Othering.

Here’s an article on Inclusive Language for Talking About People With Intellectual Disabilities.

Read more about the great violinist Itzhak Perlman.

Find out more about the exciting Pan African Orchestra.

Playlist:

• Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.107 – “Reformation”: 4. Choral “Ein’ Feste Burg ist unser Gott!” (Andante con moto – Allegro vivace – Allegro maestoso – Più animato poco a poco), London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
• Pan-African Orchestra – Sisala Sibrew – (Opus 1 1995)
• Toumani Diabate and the London Symphony – Korolen – Elyne Road – (Malian composer and kora player)
• Coptic Light (Morton Feldman) Michael Morgan conductor
• London Philharmonic Orchestra & Itzhak Perlman, The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 3 in F Major, RV 293 “Autumn”: I. Allegro, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Diversity – ability)
• Aretha Franklin – Nessun Dorma – Jewels in the Crown (Diversity – what is classical music, the versatility of the voice)

Go deeper with Dr. Derrick Fox: https://youtu.be/SqABK1S0xE4

In episode 4 of Reflections of Us, Dr. Fox talked about allyship, an active, consistent and arduous practice of unlearning and re-evaluation in which a person in a position of privilege or power seeks to operate in solidarity with a marginalized group.

Find out more about Allyship and learn how to implement in your own life.

Learn 10 Ways to Build Allyship Through Empathy

Learn more about the Jessye Norman School of the Arts.

Find out more about Caroline Shaw and her work “To the Hands”.

Read the story about how anxiety nearly destroyed the life of Laura Mvula.

Plan a Mental Health Day with the help of the Mayo Clinic.

Playlist:

• .Jessye Norman (Soprano) Jessye Norman Live At Hohenems – Widmung
• Caroline Shaw (University of Nebraska Omaha Concert Choir) – To the Hands
• Laura Mvula (Laura Mvula with Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley at Abbey Road Studios) – She
• Mei-Ann Chen (conductor) – Project W Works by Women Composers – Reena Esmail – #metoo
• Mei-Ann Chen (conductor) – Project W Works by Women Composers – Clarice Assad- Sin Frontera

Go deeper with Dr. Derrick Fox: https://youtu.be/AQwDnffqKyY

In episode 5 of Reflections of Us, Dr. Fox focused on the human condition, the positive and negative experiences affecting our daily existence. It also serves as a connector with others who have similar experiences.

Learn more about what defines the Human Condition.

Meet Maestra Mei-Ann Chen of the Chicago Sinfonietta.

Watch this great video on composer and artist Meredith Monk.

Hear an interview with Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri on The Sacred Veil.

Playlist:

• Jessie Montgomery – Coincident Dances
• Meredith Monk – The Politics of Quiet: Waltz in 5s
• Aaron Copland – Quiet City
• Eric Whitacre – The Sacred Veil

In episode 6, Dr. Fox talked about the intersection of music and politics. Both conflict and harmony play an integral role in politics and music.

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Read more about famed conductor James Yannatos.

View an interview with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Karel Husa.

Read more from the LA Phil about the work The People United Will Never Be Defeated! and see a stirring video of the Chilean orchestra with a breathtaking open-air performance.

Playlist:

• James Yannatos, Yannatos: Symphony No. 4 – Symphony No. 4 (Tiananmen Square): I. Many People
• James Yannatos, Yannatos: Symphony No. 4 – Symphony No. 4: Symphony No. 4 (Tiananmen Square): V. In Memorium
• Karel Husa –Music for Prague, 1968: I. Introduction and Fanfare: Adagio
• Karel Husa – Music for Prague, 1968: IV. Toccata and Chorale: Vivace
• Frederic Rzewski – The People United Will Never Be Defeated (36 Variations on “El Pueblo Unido Jamàs Serà) Part I
• Frederic Rzewski – The People United Will Never Be Defeated (36 Variations on “El Pueblo Unido Jamàs Serà Vencido!”): Part 7

In episode 7, Dr. Fox talked about marginalization in music, centering specifically on the concepts of ingroup and outgroups.

Go deeper with Dr. Derrick Fox: https://youtu.be/FOUcAeiwSaY

Read more about how the Nazi’s deemed some music as ‘Degenerate’ music.

Here’s another article that examines what it felt like to experience Internal exile in music in Nazi Germany.

Read about composers who experienced external exile in Nazi Germany.

Several composers found themselves in serious trouble with the Nazi’s. Read here about a Czech composer who died in a Nazi concentration camp.

Find out more about the music from Mátyás Seiber performed on this episode of Reflections of Us.

• Besardo Suite No.2 (1942)
• Improvisations for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra

Playlist:

• Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Symphony No. 6: II. Toccata variata. Presto
• Boris Blacher – Violin Concerto: II. Adagio – Presto attacca
• Matyas Seiber – Besardo Suite No. 2: VI. Courante de guerre – Canaries
• Matyas Seiber & Johnny Dankworth – Improvisations for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra i. Introduction
• Erwin Schulhoff – 5 Pieces for String Quartet: No. 5, Alla tarantella
• Gideon Klein
  • String Trio: I. Allegro
  • String Trio: II. Lento
  • String Trio: III. Molto vivace

In episode 8, Dr. Fox talked about the beauty of our environment and what we can do to help.

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Read more about Karal Husa’s Apotheosis of this Earth.

Listen to Florence Price’s The Mississippi River Suite.

Learn how Gabriella Smith’s Lost Coast was inspired by a five-day solo backpacking trip.

Find local resources you can use to do your part at Nebraska Environmental Quality.

Dr. Fox grew up in the Mississippi Delta. View this breathtaking video on the Beginning of the Mississippi River.

Playlist:

• Karel Husa – Apotheosis Movt II
• Alberto Grau – Kasar Mie La Gaji (St. Olaf)
• Ludovico Einaudi – Elegy for the Arctic (Piano Solo)
• Florence Price – The Mississippi River: Andante – Allegretto – Allegro
• Ron Nelson – Rocky Point Holiday
• Gabriella Smith – Lost Coast II
• Gabriella Smith – Lost Coast III

In episode 9, Dr. Fox talked about women’s empowerment and the concept of third culture.

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Read more about Chinese American conductor Dorothy Chang.

Learn more about Third Culture Kids – kids who grow up in a country or community that isn’t their parents’ homeland – and listen to a great TED Talk on Third Culture Kids, who can be citizens on nowhere and everywhere.

What does conductor Marin Alsop think about the movie Tar? Read her response here.

Watch a performance of the String Queens on CBS Mornings.

In episode 10, Dr. Fox talked about connecting communities through music, and did a deep dive into the musical practice and tradition of shape note singing.

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Read Dr. Derrick Fox’s research on the African American practice of shape note singing – a community-based music genre.

Listen to Dr. Fox discuss his personal experiences with shape note singing.

Watch a short film about the Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers and their members passing down the tradition of shape note singing to a new generation.

Playlist:

• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – Lamentations, “Black / Folk Song Suite”: I. Fuguing Tune: Resolute 
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – Lamentations, “Black / Folk Song Suite”: III. Calvary Ostinato
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – Lamentations, “Black / Folk Song Suite”: IV. Perpetual Motion (quarter Note = 76)
• Sweet Honey in the Rock – This May Be the Last Time – (Sweet Honey In the Rock, James Horner, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Nitanju Bolade Casel, Aisha Kahlil, Carol Maillard & Michael Fisher) – from Freedom Song (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Les Préludes, symphonic poèm for orchestra, S. 97 (Liszt) – Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Eiji Oue (Ajee Ooway), from Liszt: Symphonic Poèms, Les Préludes, Orpheus, Mazeppa
• Percy Grainger – Lincolnshire Posy: I. Lisbon – Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry Junkin
• Percy Grainger – Lincolnshire Posy: II. Horkstow Grange – Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry
• Percy Grainger – Lincolnshire Posy: III. Rufford Park Poachers – Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry
• Percy Grainger – Lincolnshire Posy: IV. The Brisk Young Sailor – Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry
• Percy Grainger – Lincolnshire Posy: V. Lord Melbourne – Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry
• Percy Grainger – Lincolnshire Posy: VI. Lost Lady Found – Dallas Wind Symphony & Jerry

In episode 11, Dr. Fox talks about composers who have been “left out of the books”.

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Read about composer Mary D Watkins and her ground-breaking operas.

Enjoy a conversation with Adolphus Hailstork.

Find out more about film and TV composer Angela Morley.

Playlist:

• Mary Watkins – Five Movements in Color: Urban Suave and Dance Survivalist
• Hailstork – Sonata da Chiesa – (Czech National Orchestra, conductor Paul Freeman)
• Smetana – Ma Vlast (Mvt 2 – Vltava)
• Vaughan Williams – Symphony #9 – Scherzo
• Angela Morley – Introduction and Waltz (From “The Slipper and the Rose”) from The Film & Television Music of Angela Morley
• Angela Morley – Main Title (From “The Looking Glass War”) from The Film & Television Music of Angela Morley
• Final Struggle and Triumph (From “Watership Down”) from The Film & Television Music of Angela Morley

In episode 12, Dr. Fox talks about composers who have been inspired by children and music from cartoons.

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Playlist:

• Henry Purcell – second movement of Henry Purcell’s “Abdelazer Suite”
• Britten – Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, Opus 34 
• Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker – Waltz of the Flowers
• Eric Whitacre – Good Night Moon
• Derrick Fox – I Am with You
• Andrea Ramsey – Imaginary Creatures

In episode 13, titled “What the World Needs Now is Empathy,” Dr. Fox talks about the ways we can experience empathy through music and the way diversity helps shape our dreams and our lives.

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Playlist:

• Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
• Sibelius – Finlandia
• Carlos Cordero – Ayudamé
• Tania Leon – Indígena
• Svetlana Bukvich – Once You Are a Stranger (version for string, electric bass and electronics)
• Chanda Dancy – Be There for Them – from the movie Devotion
• Derrick Fox – Journey On