Prize-winning African American musicians appear in Gateways Music Festival at Performing Arts Center: Boston Symphony Orchestra cellist Owen Young and Naumburg prize-winning pianist Awadagin Pratt are two of the four handpicked musicians from the Gateways Music Festival...  [ read more... ]

African American faculty, staff and guest artists reach out to children in East Austin: The College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin is underwriting a series of outreach activities designed for African American children. The goal is to extend the college’s instructional capacity beyond the boundaries of the campus...  [ read more... ]

The 1997 Gateways Music Festival features African-American classical instrumentalists in performances throughout the city: Artistic Director Armenta Adams Hummings announces programs and artists for the second festival in Rochester. ROCHESTER, NY- Armenta Adams Hummings, founder and artistic director of the Gateways Music Festival, has announced the newly expanded festival for 1997...  [ read more... ]

What Louis Farrakhan Didn’t Say: Our expectation was to spend the day together and cap it off at the Delta Fine Arts’ presentation of “Gateways: Classical Music and the Black Musician,” to be held at the Reynolds Auditorium. Perhaps I could be favored by Copeland’s Appalachia Spring and be transported to my boyhood days in... [ read more... ]

The Fifth Gateways Music Festival: This year's festival, the fifth and largest of the festivals, was held in Rochester, New York. Nearly one hundred musicians participated in events held in area churches, community centers, colleges, and at the Eastman School of Music. The festival opened on 29 August with a morning concert of sacred works by the Gateways Youth Orchestra.
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