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Prize for Music winner Anthony Davis, the latter’s own tense encounter with police
inspiring his You Have The Right To Remain Silent. Carlos Simon’s music will also
appear in Detroit (in the form of a new Trombone Concerto), as well as over at
Washington National Opera, where his new stage work The Passion of Mary
Cardwell Dawson premieres in January; it will explore the lady behind the longest-
running all-black opera company.
As this all suggests, classical music is a great treasure chest of human stories, and
there are plenty of lesser-known names with powerful and surprising histories to
encounter. The Bergen Philharmonic will showcase Harald Sæverud; living on the
outskirts of Bergen in the Second World War, Sæverud wrote several symphonic
works that protested against the Nazi occupation of Norway. Elsewhere, Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie Bremen will spotlight William Shield, a friend to Haydn and
Britain’s Master of the King’s Musick from 1817.
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, © BBC
But the new season is not just full of historical figures with an enduring relevance to
the present. As a composer in my early twenties, it was extremely heartening for me
