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Each generation projects its own musical tastes onto the past. Our own era’s bias (when we are not busying ourselves canonizing Florence Price), tends…

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Happy Thursday! For this week’s Listen, we will be touring a seldom-explored corner of the repertoire: works for piano solo and string orchestra only…

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