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Article: Black Music Ensemble to Honor King
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 31, 1994
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If all goes well in decades to come, two of Chicago's most
worthwhile music organizations - the Center for Black Music Research
at Columbia College and American Women Composers' Midwest Chapter -
will be able to go out of business.
There won't be any need for groups devoted to discovering,
promoting and performing classical music by black and female
composers because the best of that music would have moved into the
standard repertoire. American concert audiences will encounter
symphonies by William Grant Still and chamber pieces by Amy Beach as
a matter of course. The idea of concerts highlighting black or
female composers will seem faintly old-fashioned.
That day is not yet here, so ...