A Plurality of Traditions: Anthony Davis and the Social Justice Opera

ANTHONY DAVIS, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his opera The Central Park Five, is a composer with a great future behind him. Five is his eighth opera, and during those labors, spanning four decades, he’s found the time and talent to write orchestral pieces and music for plays, to record solo […] The post A Plurality of Traditions: Anthony Davis and the Social Justice Opera appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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