February 5, 2020

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“Dances in the Canebrakes” is a piano piece by a composer from Arkansas who made Chicago her home for most of her life.  She became the first African-American woman to have her music performed by a major orchestra – the Chicago Symphony – in 1933.  Who created these buoyant and lyrical “Dances in the Canebrakes”?