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For One Violinist, Elevating Music By Black Composers Is A 20-Year Mission

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Rachel Barton Pine's Blues Dialogues album and Music by Black Composers educational project are part of a mission that stretches back more than 20 years.  Courtesy of the artist  hide caption toggle caption  Courtesy of the artist Rachel Barton Pine's Blues Dialogues album and Music by Black Composers educational project are part of a mission that stretches back more than 20 years. Courtesy of the artist Growing up in Chicago, Rachel Barton Pine took it for granted that there was a great body of classical music by black composers. She heard it on the radio. She played it in local orchestras as a student. The Center for Black Music Research is in Chicago. So, when the violinist recorded her first concerto album in 1997, she naturally included lagu mp3 music by Afro-Caribbean and Afro-European composers. "I wasn't thinking about any of the social justice aspect or anything like that," Pine says. "But after the record came out, I started getting a