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“Telling Stories Through Music: An Interview with Shawn Okpebholo.” San Francisco Classical Voice
“Meet the Composer: Shawn Okpebholo.” BBC Music Magazine
“Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’.”The New York Times
“Review: Lawrence Brownlee’s ‘Rising.’” The New York Times
“Review of ‘Songs in Flight’ at Octavius Catto’s Rising Recital Program.” The Boston Globe
“Shawn Okpebholo's Inspiring Journey.” Lexington Herald-Leader
“Taking Center (Opera) Stage.” Chicago Tribune
“The 100 Best Songs of 2021.” NPR
5 Questions to Shawn Okpebholo (Composer).” I Care If You Listen
CBS News Chicago. “Local, Grammy-Nominated Composer Putting a New Spin on Opera.”
PBS NewsHour. “Unknown: A Diverse Musical Commemoration of Unidentified Slain Soldiers.”
New York Times Review of Shawn E. Okpebholo’s Song Cycle, Songs in Flight, Premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, featuring: Rhiannon Giddens, singer and multi-instrumentalist; Karen Slack, soprano, Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Will Liverman, baritone; and Howard Watkins, piano (Click image to read full article)
“'Unknown' : A diverse musical commemoration of unidentified slain soldiers,” -Interview with PBS News Hour
“The Rain” (from Okpebholo’s song set, “Two Black Churches”) was one of the few classical compositions (among the most popular pop songs in 2021) that made NPR’s ranked list of The 100 Best Songs of 2021! Click to see the entire list.
“In ‘Unknown,’ a composer and a poet offer new perspectives on war and 100 years of soldiers with names lost to time,” The Washington Post
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5 Questions to Shawn Okpebholo - I Care if You Listen, Bill Dogget
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The booklet with liner notes for Steal Away, designed by Jeremy Botts with photography by Greg Halvorsen Schreck.