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Music Preview: East Coast Premiere of an Opera about the Fight for Civil Rights –“Dark River”

March 26, 2014
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Fanny Lou Hamer’s life and the political struggle, which gave us the Voting Rights Act, is the basis of Mary Watkins’ two-act opera.

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