Today on the podcast I have the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry. Dr. Terry is a lecturer at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and Dr. Terry has also taught on the faculty of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is also Director of Music at Epiphany Catholic Church in Georgetown. He is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Artist Fellowship awarded by the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities. A current biographical sketch of Dr. Terry also appears in Who’s Who in America.
Dr. Terry is the editor of a critically-acclaimed multi-volume (currently 8 vols) African-American Organ Music Anthology published by MorningStar Music Publishers (St. Louis, Missouri).
I met Dr. Terry in 2011 in a masterclass as I played from the African-American Organ Music Anthology. He was kind enough to discuss the Organ Music Anthology, as well as the struggles of African-American Organ composers and African-American classical composers.
MorningStar Music was kind enough to extend a discount code for Ministry Monday listeners who would like to purchase any of the African-American Organ Music Anthology books that we are about to discuss today! So stay tuned to the end of the episode to receive that exclusive discount code.
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Resources:
Use code MTTP for 20% off all volumes of the African American Organ Anthology (Code valid through February 28, 2021).
To order, visit the links below:
African-American Organ Anthology: Volume 1
African-American Organ Anthology: Volume 2
African-American Organ Anthology: Volume 3
African-American Organ Anthology: Volume 4
African-American Organ Anthology: Volume 5
African-American Organ Anthology: Volume 6
African-American Organ Anthology: Volume 7
African-American Organ Anthology: Volume 8
For more information on classical African American organ composers and African American classical composers, check out the resources below:
African American Organ Music: A Roundtable Discussion (aired September 8, 2020)
Mickey Thomas Terry, “Cultural Perceptions of African-American Organ Literature”. Perspectives on American Music since 1950, James R. Heintze, Ed.
Essays in American Music, vol. 4 (Garland Publishing Co., June 1999), p. 225-241.
Mickey Thomas Terry, African-American Classical Organ Music – A Case of Neglect.
The American Organist Magazine, March 1997, p. 56-61.
Mickey Thomas Terry, African-American Organ Literature: A Selective Overview.
The Diapason, April 1996, p. 14-17.
Mickey Thomas Terry, A Second Glance: An Overview of African-American Organ Literature.
The Diapason, May 1998, p. 18, 21 (available online here).
BIO: Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry
MICKEY THOMAS TERRY holds degrees from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dr. Terry’s principal organ teachers have been Clarence Watters, Charles Callahan, and Ronald Stolk (Improvisation). He was the Second Prize winner of the 9th Annual Clarence Mader National Organ Competition (Los Angeles/Pasadena), and a finalist in both the Michigan International Organ Competition (University of Michigan Music School-Ann Arbor), and the Flint Competition (Flint, Michigan).
Dr. Terry is a critically-acclaimed concert organist who has concertized throughout the United States and the Caribbean. He has been broadcast several times on Public Radio International’s Pipedreams. He was a featured recitalist at the 1997 Region III American Guild of Organists (AGO) Convention in Washington, DC and the 2001 Region IV Convention of the AGO in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Terry was also a featured recitalist at the 1998 American Guild of Organists National Convention in Denver and at the 2006 American Guild of Organists National Convention in Chicago.
Terry has been a featured artist at Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and organ recitalist at the Piccolo-Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1996 and 1998, he presented the African-American Organ Music workshop at the American Guild of Organists National Convention. He also served as Sub-Dean and Program Chair of the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
He has published several journal articles that have appeared in The Musical Quarterly (Oxford University Press), The American Organist Magazine, The Diapason, as well as the British journal Choir and Organ. There is also an article that appears in Volume IV of Essays in American Music (Garland Publishers, 1999) and as well as an essay that appears in Readings in African-American Church Music and Worship (GIA Publications, 2001). Terry is the editor of a critically-acclaimed multi-volume (currently 8 vols) African-American Organ Music Anthology published by MorningStar Music Publishers (St. Louis, Missouri). He has also served on the Advisory board for the ECS/AGO African-American Organ Music Series published by E.C. Schirmer Music Company of Boston.
Dr. Terry appears on the Albany Records label compact disc George Walker-A Portrait, playing the organ works of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker and on the Minnesota Public Radio compact disc Pipedreams Premieres, Volume 2, playing an organ work of African-American composer Thomas H. Kerr.
Dr. Terry has also taught on the faculty of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He serves as a Lecturer in Howard University’s Department of Music in Washington, DC. He is also Director of Music at Epiphany Catholic Church in Georgetown. He is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Artist Fellowship awarded by the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities. A current biographical sketch of Dr. Terry also appears in Who’s Who in America.
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