A low voice calls over solo guitar. A warm bass and rippling lines of dancers sound rapid beats like a light rain. A strong tenor builds over blues chords in a call-and-response rhythm …
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Composer and musician Toshi Reagon presents an opera based on Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel ‘Parable of the Sower,’ the story of a strong woman surviving in a turbulent future.
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