RBP Foundation

Founded in 2001. Instrument Loan Program, Grants for Education and Career, Global HeartStrings, Music by Black Composers.

[RBP Foundation @RBP_Foundation]

You’re invited!
Sylvia Pine (age 8, daughter of @RBPviolinist) will be giving a virtual recital on June 6 at 2pm CDT.
Please watch the livestream at https://t.co/o3hDcoTvUj
She will perform all 22 pieces from @MBComposers Violin Vol. 1, accompanied by her mother.
Please tune in!

[RBP Foundation @RBP_Foundation]

#BlackOutTuesday

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

MBC Violin Volume 1 was published a year ago! How many pieces has your kid learned? Have you been teaching the music to students? Has your school performed any? We are curious about the impact of this groundbreaking publication! https://t.co/VJJ7VfkB7G
#ExpandtheCanon

[RBP Foundation @RBP_Foundation]

@MACcable So glad you like it! :)

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

Proud to announce the release of THREE landmark @RBP_Foundation Music by Black Composers publications!
#ExpandtheCanon #BlackisClassical #MusicbyBlackComposers #ChangingtheFaceofClassicalMusic
https://t.co/sMAPhvzoSD

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

Violin Volume I for beginner and elementary-level students contains 22 works by 16 composers from Africa, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, and North America. #ExpandtheCanon #BlackisClassical #MusicbyBlackComposers #ChangingtheFaceofClassicalMusic

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

The @RBP_Foundation Coloring Book of Black Composers is illustrated by artist and violinist Sho-mei Pelletier, and it contains pictures of 40 composers from the 1700s to the present and from around the world. #ExpandtheCanon #BlackisClassical #ChangingtheFaceofClassicalMusic

[RBP Foundation @RBP_Foundation]

Find out what's new at the @RBP_Foundation! Our December newsletter is now online at: https://t.co/I8ZSHCpDF9

[RBP Foundation @RBP_Foundation]

@RBP_Foundation’s Instrument Loan Program and Grants for Education and Career support young artists who are exceptionally talented but financially struggling. Please help the next generation of young musicians! #GivingTuesday

[RBP Foundation @RBP_Foundation]

Support @MBComposers with new swag! #composers #ColeridgeTaylor #SaintGeorges #Nketia #Price #Cordero #Montgomery
#ExpandTheCanon https://t.co/PN0BzRlkMb

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

New @MBComposers swag! Cool merchandise with distinctive MBC logos—T-shirts, mugs, bags, and more! #ExpandTheCanon https://t.co/8bRe3KhBln

[Rachel Barton Pine @RBPviolinist]

Happy to perform w @CatalystQuartet & friends Oct 5 @lprnyc in #NY. Help us raise $ #PuertoRico #unitedforpuertorico https://t.co/KO0bVJuxih

[Rachel Barton Pine @RBPviolinist]

#DidYouKnow AfroCaribbean #ChevalierSaintGeorges was most imp #composer of 1700s known as “The Black Mozart”? Here’s Sonata No.5 w Danielle

[Rachel Barton Pine @RBPviolinist]

#DidYouKnow #Beethoven’s #Kreutzer #sonata has nothing to w violinist Kreutzer? #tbt #story https://t.co/Fxf6ETV9Tw #RBPtour #MD @BenderJCC

[Rachel Barton Pine @RBPviolinist]

Excited to perform works by #blackcomposers #WilliamGrantStill & #ChevalierSaintGeorges https://t.co/XM2Bi8sv3E #RBPtour #MD @MBComposers

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

On this day in 1904, Undine Smith Moore, the "Dean of Black Women Composers," was born in Jarratt, Virginia!

[RBP Foundation @RBP_Foundation]

#CelebrateBlackComposers #ExpandTheCanon https://t.co/18iAYmjX5B

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

On this day in 1934, composer and pianist Roger Donald Dickerson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana!
Happy birthday, Mr. Dickerson! 🎉🎂

[RBP Foundation @RBP_Foundation]

So many August birthdays!! #CelebrateBlackComposers https://t.co/Hr3WqoCY0J

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

Many August 16 birthdays! Composers Armand Piron (1888 NOLA), Roque Cordero (1917 Panama City), and Oswald Russell (1933 Kingston, Jamaica).

[Rachel Barton Pine @RBPviolinist]

Support #HumanRights. Join me at this benefit concert @CenteronHalsted 8/26 @yasquartet #LGBT https://t.co/hSi6rVfGeZ #WednesdayMotivation

[Black Composers @MBComposers]

Today is the 142nd birthday of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor! His Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast was the most popular piece in England for decades.

[Rachel Barton Pine @RBPviolinist]

Great article about how to bring #AfricanAmerican community into the @chicagosymphony @MaestroMuti https://t.co/EntG3J5ZBV @WFMTclassical