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Slave Orchestras

August 31, 2020

We often talk of musicians as "servants to art" or "serving the audience" or we point out that formal concert wear is based on servant clothing. But let's go deeper. What about the musicians who actually were enslaved?

Classical Music and its Slave Orchestras

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