By: Dr. Krystal Klingenberg, a curator of music in the division of Culture and the Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ...

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Finckel also explains they are also playing a piece by a woman named Valerie Coleman. “She's a flutist, and a young African American composer who started a group in New York called the Imani Winds.