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...Valerie Coleman’s two-movement Tracing Visions is less personal in its musical language, but the energy of its rhythms gives Sphinx Virtuosi an uplifting showpiece....
...Blanchard’s opera is the first of three contemporary operas, the most since 1928, and three black composers — Valerie Coleman, Jessie Montgomery and Joel Thompson — have been invited to take part in the...
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