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  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session One: Race and Identity in Twenty-First Century Music Making.
  • Session Two: William Dawson, Up Close.
  • Session Two: William Dawson, Up Close.
  • Session Two: William Dawson, Up Close.
  • Session Three: The Spirituals: Meaning and Mythology in African American Identity.
  • Session Three: The Spirituals: Meaning and Mythology in African American Identity.
  • Session Three: The Spirituals: Meaning and Mythology in African American Identity.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Four: Reciprocity and Representation: Music, Letters, and the Visual Arts.
  • Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.
  • Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.
  • Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.
  • Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Six: Music as Social History.
  • Session Seven: The Ecology of the Music: Identity, Artistic Expectation, and Arts Institutions.
  • Session Seven: The Ecology of the Music: Identity, Artistic Expectation, and Arts Institutions.
  • Session Seven: The Ecology of the Music: Identity, Artistic Expectation, and Arts Institutions.
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Session Five: The Intersection of Concert and Vernacular Traditions.

Composer T. J. Anderson introduces the session, and then tells stories about Dawson, including about his elegant dressing, his sometimes temperamental relationship with Dr. Patterson at Tuskegee, and his drive for musical perfection and belief in the power of rehearsal (which led him once to try to pay musicians out of his own pocket to extend a rehearsal when time ran out).