Title: Portia White Prize
Content:  The Portia White Prize is the largest prize of its type awarded by the Province of Nova Scotia and is named for Portia White, a Nova Scotian artist who rose through adversity to achieve international acclaim as a classical singer on the stages of Europe and North America. Although Portia White began her career teaching in Africville, she eventually turned her energy to developing her enormous musical talent. Portia White became a world-renowned contralto through much hard work and dedication and the financial support of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, a charitable organization created in 1944 by the Halifax Ladies Music Club, the music community and the Province. Upon retiring from the stage, Ms. White devoted her time to teaching and coaching young singers. Her achievements continue to instill a sense of pride in the African Nova Scotian community 
Title: Portia White
Content:  Portia May White (June 24, 1911 – February 13, 1968) was a Canadian contralto, known for becoming the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame. Growing up as part of her father's church choir in Halifax, Nova Scotia, White competed in local singing competitions as a teenager and later trained at the Halifax Conservatory of Music. In 1941 and 1944, she made her national and international debuts as a singer, receiving critical acclaim for her performances of both classical European music and African-American spirituals. White later completed tours throughout Europe, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. When vocal difficulties and cancer eventually contributed to her retirement in 1952, White settled 
Title: Portia White
Content:  At the 2007 East Coast Music Awards, White was posthumously honoured with a Dr. Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the namesake of Portia White Court, a Halifax street, as well as the Portia White Atrium in Citadel High School. In 2017, the Portia White Youth Award was established as part of the African Nova Scotian Music Awards. White has been the subject of Lance Woolaver's play Portia White: First You Dream (also known simply as Portia),  Sylvia Hamilton's documentary Portia White: Think on Me, and George Elliott Clarke's book Portia White. A portrait of White by Hedley Rainnie is on permanent display at Government House, Nova Scotia in honour of her contribution to the arts.
Title: Portia White
Content: Clarke, George Elliot. 2019. Portia White: A Portrait in Words. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN: 9781771086974 ; Gauthier, Natasha. 2020. "Where is BLACK OPERA in Canada." Opera Canada 6, no. 2 (Winter): 65-68. ; Goodall, Lian. 2008. Singing Towards the Future: The Story of Portia White. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN: 9781894917551 ; Hamilton, Sylvia D. 2004. "A Daughter's Journey." Canadian Woman Studies 23, no. 2. (Winter): 6-12. ; Hamilton, Sylvia D. 2009. "Searching for Portia White." In Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada, edited by Darrell Varga, 259-287. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. Hamilton, Sylvia D. 2004. "A Daughter's Journey." Canadian Woman Studies 23, no. 2. (Winter): 6-12. ; Hamilton, Sylvia D. 2009. "Searching for Portia White." In Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada, edited by Darrell Varga, 259-287. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. 
Title: Portia White
Content:  In November 1941, with the support of Read, 30-year-old White made her national debut as a singer in Toronto at the Eaton Auditorium. She was favourably received by audiences, even receiving a career management offer from Oxford University Press the day after her performance. Despite encountering racism as she sought out new performance bookings, White subsequently toured across Canada, performing concerts at venues that included the Governor General's Rideau Hall residence. White sang both classical European music and African-American spirituals, and works by Harry T. Burleigh were a constant part of her concert repertoire. Alongside English pieces, she performed music in Italian, German, French and Spanish, and White's three-octave range attracted critical acclaim. Hector Charlesworth's review in The Globe and Mail observed White's "pungent 
Title: Portia White
Content:  ever talked to me, I wouldn't be able to communicate in any other way but by singing. I was always bowing in my dreams and singing before people and parading across the stage as a very little girl."As a teenager, White entered a local singing competition with her sister June, the pair performing an aria from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. They won first prize. Although White wanted to pursue a singing career, she could not afford professional training at the time. White entered Dalhousie University in 1929, studying to become a teacher. From the early 1930s she taught in Africville and Lucasville, two small Halifax communities that were predominately Black Nova Scotian, and during this time White was finally able to 
Title: Portia White: First You Dream
Content:  Portia White: First You Dream is a two-act musical play written by Lance Woolaver. It is based on the life of singer Portia White. Born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1911, and part of a large family, White sang in the choir at her father's church as a child, won several singing competitions, and in 1944 began touring Canada, the United States, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. The music consists of spiritual and classical pieces, all in the public domain. The play was first performed in workshop in Halifax 2003, and has since been performed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Prince George, British Columbia, and Petrolia, Ontario. It was a huge hit when premiered, and the performance was acknowledged in the Canadian House of Commons as supporting Black History Month.
Title: Portia White: First You Dream
Content:  Lance Woolaver wrote the play after seven years of research into the life of Portia White, including meeting Portia's siblings Lorne White and Yvonne White. Under the title Think on Me: The Portia White Story, the play was given a public workshop performance, with songs, but without full sets, lighting, or props, in 2003. Portia was portrayed by Denise Williams, who also met with Lorne and Yvonne, and learned the spiritual One More Rive to Cross, from Yvonne. Yvonne served as the musical director for the workshop and performance. Other performers included Jackie Richardson, Richard Donat, and Amber Godfree, and Linda Moore directed. Lorne White, Portia's brother, played her father. Tom Vinci, son of Ernesto Vinci, has also contributed to the play. After this performance, the title changed to Portia White: Think on Me. There was a full production the following year, under the current title. Lance Woolaver, with the assistance of Tom Vinci, is currently developing the play as a feature film.
Title: Portia White
Content:  leader; Bill, the first Canadian of African heritage to run for political office in Canada; and Lorne, a regular performer for television show Singalong Jubilee. White also became aunt to Senator Donald Oliver and political commentator Sheila White. Portia White began her musical career at the age of six as a choir member with the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church, where her mother was also the musical director. As White grew older, she became the choir director and assisted with church fundraising by singing on her father's weekly radio show. In an interview later in life, White explained that her love of music and performing had developed early:"Nobody ever told me to sing, I was born singing. I think that if nobody 
Title: Portia White: First You Dream
Content:  he quietly gives her a ring. Portia becomes a popular singer for church fundraisers, telling her father "We put a roof on every church in the county." When Ernesto arranges a debut at Toronto's Massey Hall, Portia insists he come with her. Her parents are concerned about her leaving home, but she leaves with their blessing. Act Two begins with Portia's debut performance, consisting of three songs (What is Life Without Thee, O Holy Night, and Think on Me). Ernesto does not accompany her. There are glimpses of life on the road during the 1940s, sometimes tiring and challenging. Ernesto and Portia occasionally meet, and he eventually confesses he 

Question: What genre is Portia White?
Answer: opera.
lyric drama.
European opera.
Western classical opera.