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PBS World Channel profiled some interesting composers recently ...
Gordon Getty -- billionaire son of oil magnate J. Paul Getty -- is a serious composer of mostly vocal works based on the works of Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allen Poe: https://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vLinkTitle/GORDON+GETTY+THERE+WILL+BE+MUSIC
Florence Price, an African-American woman born in Little Rock, AR, whose first symphony was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933: http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/caged-bird-life-and-music-florence-b-price/
