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Professional orchestras are featuring works by Black composers while paying homage to their oft-forgotten history

Noah Sheidlower, CNN Jazz artist and composer Terence Blanchard never thought his work would be performed on the Metropolitan Opera Stage. Adapted from Charles M. Blow’s memoir of the same name, Blanchard’s opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” tells of a Black boy growing up in rural Louisiana, where he faces poverty and sexual

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Union calls deal to avert strike ‘a Hollywood ending’ as negotiations continue for workers in other parts of country

By Andy Rose, Kimberly Berryman and Alaa Elassar, CNN A threatened strike on major TV and film production was averted Saturday night, just hours before a midnight deadline. The association representing producers made a tentative deal with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employee (IATSE), a union representing roughly 60,000 film and television workers, including

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