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An American High School Band decided to include at least one piece by a female composer and one by a BME composer in each concert. Solvejg Wastvedt explains what happened.

There's a bulletin board at the front of the band room at Spring Lake Park High covered in portraits of the composers who wrote this year's music selection.
The bulletin board isn't new — it's there every year. What's new are the faces: Instead of primarily white men, there are faces of women and composers of color.
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