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Q &A: Lucy Caplan on Shirley Graham Du Bois’ ‘Tom-Tom’ & Importance of Black Composers
(Credit: Harold Shapiro) On July 9, the Caramoor Festival will present a Livestream event entitled “Listening to Tom-Tom.” The event will be an in-depth exploration of Shirley Graham Du Bois’ opera, “Tom-Tom,” the first opera written and staged by an African American woman. The work has not been produced since its initial run in 1932 and all that survives of {…}