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What Custom Had Strictly Divided: On Kira Thurman’s “Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms”
A richly detailed history of the African American legacy in European orchestral music....
Olivia Giovetti has written for the Washington Post, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Millions, and VAN Magazine (where she is also an editor). She’s currently working on a memoir about Wagner, ghost ships, and suicide.