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Walter’s World: Carolyn Adams- Dancer, Educator, and Harlem Preservationist

By Walter Rutledge

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Carolyn Adams danced with the Paul Taylor Dance Company for seventeen years. To hear Adams describe the experience one quickly realizes that despite the fact that she no longer performs, she remains a Taylor dancer for life. Continue reading

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HSA Alumnus N’Kenge, Star of Broadway’s Motown the Musical

N'Kenge head shotHailed by VARIETY as “a sensational powerhouse singer,” N’Kenge has been taking the music world by storm. Continue reading

Institute of Musical Art in Harlem, 1910

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Institute of Musical Art, a richly styled Edwardian building from 1910 (pictured above), a sleek 1930′s Art Deco addition (pictured below) by the architects of the Empire State Building Claremont Avenue on  Broadway at 122nd Street (Seminary Row) in the Morningside Heights neighborhood. Continue reading

Harlem’s Noah Stewart, First Black Musician To Top Classical Album Chart

A tenor singer from Harlem, New York, who used to be a receptionist at the city’s famous Carnegie Hall, has become the first black singer to top the UK classical album chart in its 25-year history, his record company has said. Continue reading

Noah Stewart, from Harlem to Hootie to the Royal Opera House (video)

Noah Stewart has the swagger of Puffy and the voice of Paul Robeson. Noah’s musical development started in Harlem where he studied classical music at The Harlem School of the Arts. Continue reading

Harlem School Of The Arts Screening Of ‘Matthew Kennedy’

The documentary film entitled Matthew Kennedy: One Man’s Journey” will be screened at the Harlem School of the Arts (645 St. Nicholas Avenue at 141st Street) on Friday, October 22nd at 7 pm. The film was awarded the prize for Best Film by a Black Filmmaker at the Nashville Film Festival. It was also selected and screened at the Pan-African Film Festival of Los Angeles, and had its New York premiere as part of the African Diaspora Film Festival at Columbia University.

This marks the first feature-length film of director Nina Kennedy, Matthew’s daughter. Her films have been selected for screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival, as well as international film festivals in Frankfurt, Jerusalem, London, Munich, Oslo, Atlanta, Chicago, and Philadelphia.