by Dawn Carroll | Feb 26, 2023 | Songs For Mary
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...
by Dawn Carroll | Feb 19, 2023 | Songs For Mary
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...
by Dawn Carroll | Feb 16, 2023 | Songs For Mary
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...
by Dawn Carroll | Feb 12, 2023 | Songs For Mary
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...
