Who owns the echo? The Denyce Graves Foundation and the musical history America nearly lost

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Opera is born disappearing. Breath leaves the body, trembles through the room, enters hundreds of strangers, and is gone. The vibration remains somewhere beneath the sternum, yet the sound itself cannot be held. This is the form’s great seduction and its historical peril: what survives depends upon who is recorded, programmed, funded, taught, and named.... Read More

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