Blog & Articles
Songs For Mary Creator Dawn Carroll searches for a lost Duesenberg car
There is no doubt that truly spectacular individuals have walked this planet, achieved their seemingly impossible dreams, and then utterly disappeared into the dust of the past. The heaviness of that reality exists all around us. Stories go untold. Songs go unheard....
Songs For Mary Launches at Minotti Boston
Top Boston-area Designers, Musicians, Artists, Producers, and Esteemed Guests packed Minotti Boston on February 7 to celebrate the Songs For Mary Soundtrack release. My sincerest gratitude to all who made this night happen! Thank you to our Speakers!Thank you...
Two Award Winners Merge Design Dreams
Dawn Carroll is launching a collaboration with award-winning kitchen and bath designer Rosemary Porto, who left her long-term position as Senior Designer for Poggenpohl in Boston last year. The two have been close friends and collaborators for decades, and are...
Rosemary Porto, Senior Designer at Poggenpohl Mentoring Memories with Dawn Carroll
I am Rosemary Porto, an interior designer. I was inducted into the New England Design Hall of Fame in 2014. In addition, I received the ASID Design Excellence award in March 2017. One of the integral aspects of my success is the relationship I have in the design...
Rise! A Conversation With the Past
By Larry Katz A rap song pleading for the preservation of the home of an opera company? Unexpected. But no more unexpected than the collaboration between a 29-year-old Houston rapper, Michael Berry, and a 60-year-old Boston songwriter, Dawn Carroll. The two partnered...
JON BUTCHER – MAKES AN HISTORIC STOP ON HIS MUSICAL JOURNEY
By Larry Katz JON BUTCHER has covered a lot of ground in his long career. A guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer best known as the leader of the hard-rocking Jon Butcher Axis, he’s spent much of the past 30 years creating music for television, movies and...
Tell Tchaikovsky the News
By Larry Katz Music can surprise you. It can sneak into your head, penetrate your soul and become a part of you, sometimes against all expectations. More than 30 years ago, Dawn Carroll was a hard rock singer when she heard a piece by Tchaikovsky that has stuck with...
Crack The Bat – The Ballad of Roberto and Manny
By Larry Katz On New Year’s Eve, 1972, a plane carrying baseball legend Roberto Clemente crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico. When his Pittsburgh Pirates teammate Manny Sanguillen heard the news, he sprang into action. Sanguillen spent days diving into churning,...
“SLOWLY” CAME IN A FLASH
By Larry Katz The call came deep in the night, a call to speak out that roused Dawn Carroll from sleep. Words came to a song she needed to write. Carroll’s mind had been churning after she chanced to see a TV interview earlier that evening. It was part of a piece shot...
Jonnet Solomon – An Extraordinary Treasure
By Larry Katz One day in 2000 while driving along Apple Street in Pittsburgh, Jonnet Solomon noticed a historical marker in front of a large, abandoned house. Solomon, a young woman who had emigrated to the United States from Guyana in 1984 with her family when she...
New England Conservatory Honors Alumna Mary Cardwell Dawson with Portrait Unveiling
Dawson was a Pioneer in Classical Music who Founded the National Negro Opera Company and Fought Discrimination New England Conservatory (NEC) has unveiled a new portrait of alumna and trailblazing opera singer Mary Cardwell Dawson ‘25. The portrait by artist Iris Lee...
There’s Something About Mary (Mary Cardwell Dawson)
By Larry Katz First, the house called out. The onetime headquarters of the National Negro Opera Company, the Queen Anne-style house in Pittsburgh desperately needed restoration, so much so that the National Trust for Historic Preservation had named it one of America’s...