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Often it seemed that the notes to be played, for both composers, were not the important ones: what mattered were the higher harmonics resounding afterward.

"Incredibly, these composers were not known," says Freedman.

Living composers were not some special cause or somber obligation.

However, many of the most renowned composers were not innovators, but consolidators.

Maybe the composers were not good enough, or maybe a minute is not long enough.

Moreover, 18th-century composers were not purists, so why should we be?

And let me tell you something categorically: the great composers were not mad.

Composers were not included simply because they were Jewish, and in some cases works by non-Jewish composers were included because they were thematically appropriate.

While that speculation is unconfirmed — African-American composers were not unknown on radio at the time, and NBC had featured Florence Price's First Symphony four years earlier — Dett has certainly been the victim of an injustice.

In response to an email from Jessy, the head of music wrote: "Given that female composers were not prominent in the western classical tradition (or others for that matter), there would be very few female composers that could be included".

Yet the two composers are not polar opposites.