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The thing that's most important to me is making

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sure that people feel seen. What I try to do

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with my work, with my scholarship, is making

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sure that people have perhaps a different perspective

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of what classical music is and what it sounds

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like, and then kind of challenging those perspectives

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too. So broadening our scope and challenging

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perspectives through music. That would be probably

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my mission. In our upcoming episode, I sit down

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with Dr. Leah Claiborne, pianist, educator, and

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visionary for a powerful conversation in celebration

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of Juneteenth month, proudly sponsored by Juneteenth

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LP. Dr. Claiborne shares her groundbreaking project

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featuring 10 Black concert pianists performing

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historic works by Black composers alongside newly

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commissioned pieces by living and emerging voices

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to honor and expand the legacy of Black artistry.

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We talk about what real change looks like. in

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classical music, education, and society, and

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how inclusion is built, not overnight, but through

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daily intentional work. I always put musician

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and activist or activism together. I thought

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that that's just what artists did. So because

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that was my foundation, I just thought, you know,

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being a musician must be the best thing that

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you could aspire to be. Real change is not something

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that's going to happen overnight. You know, I

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think real change is something that's going to

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take generations after generations to really

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have the change that we want, where it's something

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so rooted within us that that now becomes a new

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makeup, like new identity, new DNA, right? And

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I think what we're aiming for is that we are

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able to normalize many different voices in classical

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music. that we can celebrate Bach and Beethoven,

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who have stood the testament of time. But along

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with that, we can also celebrate Margaret Bond

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and Florence Price and Nathaniel Dead and William

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Grant Still at the same level as the other standard

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composers. Join the premiere of this uplifting

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conversation with Dr. Leah Claiborne tomorrow,

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Tuesday, June 3rd at 8 p .m. Eastern Time on

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our YouTube channel, or listen wherever you get

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your podcasts. Don't miss this powerful episode

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celebrating visibility, legacy, and the future

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of classical music.