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\u201cIn the wake of last week\u2019s shootings, an orchestral concert to benefit the Black Lives Matter movement, scheduled for Wednesday night at the Cooper Union, has become tragically timely,\u201d writes William Robin in Saturday\u2019s (7\/10) New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cClarinetist and music teacher Eun Lee \u2026 has been organizing the \u2018Sing Her Name\u2019 event for the past year\u201d to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland. The event is part of The Dream Unfinished project launched in December 2014 after the shootings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Leading the Dream Unfinished Orchestra are James Blachly and John McLaughlin Williams, with Kelly Hall-Tompkins as concertmaster for a program of music by African-American and female composers. \u201cWhile classical music institutions have lately addressed issues of diversity\u2014the theme of the League of American Orchestra\u2019s annual conference last month was \u2018The Richness of Difference\u2019\u2014they still tend to avoid confronting contemporary racial tensions\u2026. Lee \u2026 argued that her project was essentially uncontroversial: \u2018The Dream Unfinished is not really politically motivated, because I feel strongly that the issue of systemic racism and police brutality is something that should be bipartisan.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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