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Will Robin writes in The New York Times about a Dream Unfinished concert in New York next Wednesday, titled Sing Her Name. The program, under the direction of James Blachly and John McLaughlin Williams, includes music of Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Ethel Smyth, together with a new work by Courtney Bryan, to a text by the African-American poet Sharan Strange. Listen here to Bryan's Sanctum, premiered last year, which features the voices of Ferguson activists.
Also worthy of note is Tyshawn Sorey’s Josephine Baker: A Portrait, which Zachary Woolfe described in the New York Times as "one of the most important works of art yet to emerge from the era of Black Lives Matter." The première, with the remarkable soprano Julia Bullock, took place in Ojai in June; a video is available on YouTube. Mostly Mozart will present the piece at Lincoln Center on August 24.
