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\u201cA musical piece has been commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of the bombing\u201d that killed four African-American girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, writes John Pope in Sunday\u2019s (9\/15) Times-Picayune<\/em><\/a> (New Orleans). \u201cThe composition\u2014\u2018A More Convenient Season,\u2019 an orchestral work featuring a chorus, soloists, videos and electronic music\u2014will debut in Birmingham on Saturday. The composer is Yotam Haber.\u2026 The 75-minute piece for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra takes its title from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u2018Letter From Birmingham Jail,\u2019 in which he chided well-meaning people who urged civil rights workers to wait for \u2018a more convenient season\u2019 to press for equality. The rigorously modern work \u2026 includes electronic sounds and readings from FBI files.\u2026 Haber\u2019s piece is part of the evolution of Birmingham\u2019s coming to terms with its history, said Diane McWhorter, a native of the city who won a Pulitzer Prize for her nonfiction book, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution<\/em>.\u2026 The concert is designed to be \u2018a transcending experience,\u2019 said Pierre Ruhe, the orchestra\u2019s director of artistic administration. \u2018[Haber] has created a sound world in which the rest of the piece exists.\u2019 \u201d <\/p>\n

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