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A Tempo this Saturday (5/27 at 7 pm) features a conversation with Michael Abels about writing and arranging music for the film Chevalier and sharing this year's Pulitzer Prize for Music with Rhiannon Giddens for their opera, Omar.
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A Tempo this Saturday (3/18 at 7 pm) profiles the Misty Copeland Foundation, which was founded by American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Misty Copeland to foster diversity, equity and inclusion in ballet and the broader dance scene.
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A Tempo on Saturday (2/25) turns the spotlight on the International Association of Blacks in Dance, which held its first in-person conference in three years this past January.
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A Tempo this Saturday (1/7 at 7 pm) features a conversation with the composer and lyricist of the new song cycle, Songs in Flight, whose text is inspired by advertisements used by slaveholders seeking the return of fugitives from slavery.
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A Tempo this Saturday (12/17 at 7 pm) marches into the band world for a conversation about diversity and inclusion in that field of the performing arts.
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A Tempo this Saturday (11/19 at 7 pm) begins a series sampling some of the holiday performances being offered, including by The Dessoff Choirs, Houston Grand Opera, and The Philly Pops, which announced that it will shut down after the end of this season in the Spring.
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George Marriner Maull is joined by the American String Quartet to explore the effervescent first movement of String Quartet No. 5 by Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
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A Tempo this week looks at Ballet Hispánico's Doña Peron, an effort to reclaim the story of the iconic and complex Latina figure, and The Dessoff Choirs' upcoming performance of music by Vicente Lusitano, a Portuguese Renaissance composer of African descent.
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A Tempo this Saturday (9/10) features a conversation with the composer of San Juan Hill: A New York Story, which will be performed by the New York Philharmonic for the re-opening of David Geffen Hall after renovations designed to invite the community into its public and musical spaces.
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A Tempo this Saturday (8/27 at 7 pm) checks in with the creators of two websites designed to increase appreciation of the musical contributions of Clara Wieck Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, as well as other women composers.