Black male composer dilemma?!


Question: I am a black male composer, who composes relaxing music. I am due to be releasing my album soon this year. I have noticed that there are no black composers modern day and wondered whether this would effect sales ie my face on the cd cover? Is the world ready for a black man composing soothing and relaxing music or am I better of not showing my face on the cd?


Answers: I am a black male composer, who composes relaxing music. I am due to be releasing my album soon this year. I have noticed that there are no black composers modern day and wondered whether this would effect sales ie my face on the cd cover? Is the world ready for a black man composing soothing and relaxing music or am I better of not showing my face on the cd?

Putting your picture on the cover is not a racially based decision, necessarily. If you are concerned with marketing, you need to determine the best presentation for your music. A good analogy is a book. Most works of fiction use an eye-catching design for the cover and put the author's picture on the back or the back flap of the dust jacket.

Recognizing the dearth of black composers, I would probably be intrigued to learn of a new black composer.

On the same subject, I think William Grant Still is hugely underrated. Great composer.

<<I have noticed that there are no black composers modern day>>

What is Anthony Davis chopped liver. Bobby McFerrin composes classical music, and conducts it. I would consider Keith Jarrett a classical composer as well, but some people may consider that a slight stretch.

No reason not to put your picture on your album cover that I can think of.

Most people would not know a composer if they fell over one so being black should not affect anything.
Why put your face on the cover ? It is not something most composers would do.

That's not true.
R. Nathaniel Dett was an outstanding American Black composer.
Harry T. Burleigh was another outstanding American Black composer.
Samuel Coleridge Taylor was an outstanding British Black composer.

Black people excelling in classical music is nothing new to us.
When I attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, a Black student sang the soprano lead in "The Medium."
Another Black student played the king in "The King and I."

When I attended a summer music clinic, there was only one Black student in the violin section.
And guess who the concertmaster was!



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