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                                        Playwright and Director Calvin Manson   Sophocles probably had no clue about the many future playwrights his work would inspire or play formats into which his play Oedipus at Colonus would morph.  The Ira Aldridge Players under the direction of founder Calvin Manson will present a compelling Gospel Music musical version The Gospel at Colonus opening on October Friday 19th  http://www.iarpplayers.org/index.html . Noting the entire trilogy, Joy Vandervort-Cobb of the Charleston City Paper in 2011 reminds readers, "And lest we forget, there is also Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus , the last of Sophocles' three Theban plays ( Oedipus the King , Antigone )."1. I have had the pleasure of working with Calvin Manson on a couple of occasions. He is dynamic. As a director, he is gracious yet exacting. His work is creatively conceived on a longitudinal plane, yet he can be spontaneous when a gem of aesthetic beauty unfolds durin

Book Review Music in North America and the West Indies from the Discovery to 1850: A Historical Survey. Maryland: Scarecrow Press Inc. 2006 (by Daniel Mendoza de Arce) . If you are searching for a fairly comprehensive North America Music History book that starts from the early 1600s, I highly recommend this text. I use the qualifying words "fairly comprehensive" to acknowledge that contrary to tacit invisibilization of our sacred and secular American music traditions in most music history textbooks, Daniel Mendoza de Arce makes a strong argument that we do have traditions resulting from a blend of European, Native American, and African, music aesthetics. It's an enormous chronological and cultural scope to research. To continue the text into the twentieth century, Mendoza de Arce would most likely have to have included Asian influences and contributions to European musical history as well. As it stands, the text is filled with a cornucopia of well-researc