Anthony Davis (composer)

He incorporates several styles including jazz, rhythm 'n' blues, gospel, non-Western, African, European classical, Indonesian gamelan, and experimental music.

In a 1986 interview with writer Samuel R. Delany and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Anthony Davis provides a detailed account of his influences and motivations for writing X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

And in so doing they [the Davises] created not only a masterpiece of American opera, but further a work that — against a contemporary horizon darkened by undercurrents of racism — resonates today far beyond Memminger and Spoleto USA.

His opera Wakonda's Dream (2007), with a libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa, is a tale of a contemporary Native American Ponca family in Nebraska and the history that affects them.

[11] His opera, Lilith, (libretto by Allan Havis) had its world premiere at the Conrad Prebys Music Center at UCSD on December 4, 2009.

The Central Park Five premiered on June 15, 2019, in a production by the Long Beach Opera Company in San Pedro, California.

"[14] He learned that he had won the prize while in a Zoom meeting with music faculty colleagues, so they all heard the phone call; one of them later commented "Best Zoombomb ever!

"[13] In 2022, the Detroit Opera staged a production of X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, directed by Robert O'Hara.

With Barry Altschul With Ray Anderson With Anthony Braxton With Marion Brown With Baikida Carroll With Chico Freeman With Jay Hoggard With Leroy Jenkins With George E. Lewis With Bobby Previte With David Murray With Wadada Leo Smith