Black Writers on What It Means to Be White,'' started to drive home that point, going to a symposium at the Michigan Opera House during my trip home finished it. I went there to talk to George Shirley, a voice professor at the University of Michigan and a well-known tenor who visits Savannah every year to judge the American Traditions competition of Savannah Onstage. I decided to stay and listen, especially since it included Peabo Bryson, a crossover Grammy-award singer playing Porgy for the first time, and David DiChiera, general director of the opera house. They're archetypes, not stereotypes. They're evil incarnate.
Music is music.
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