Julia Perry, who grew up in Akron and went on to become a celebrated composer in Europe, ended up dying in obscurity in Akron in 1979, at age 55. She was a prolific neoclassical composer who created ...

Through a new relationship with Boosey & Hawkes, one of the world's leading classical music publishers, Videmus Inc. will make available the previously unpublished music of composer Julia Perry, whose ...

A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected. Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor ...

In Perry's hometown of Akron, Ohio, conductor Christopher Wilkins began researching Perry's works in 2018 and created the Julia Perry Project with the Akron Symphony in 2021, including six archival ...

Perry was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1924, and launched her career in the early 1950s with the success of her choral work Stabat Mater. She won Guggenheim fellowships, studied with Nadia Boulanger in ...

You could call the new album American Counterpoints another encouraging result of the push in recent years, especially after the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, to better represent and ...