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Preview - WHYY: Of basketball with gratitude: Ross Gay’s paean to Dr. J becomes a multimedia performance

Ross Gay’s ode to Julius Erving and the legacy of Black genius is the basis of a new music composition and performance at Girard College.

Photo by Emma Lee/WHYY

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Preview - The New York Times: High Schoolers Get In on an Avant-Garde Musician’s Latest Show

Tyshawn Sorey, front, the composer and multi-instrumentalist, who wrote the music for “Be Holding,” a show opening in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Credit...Rachel Wisniewski for The New York Times

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Preview - The Philadelphia Inquirer: Dr. J’s mid-air pirouette with his miraculous baseline scoop has made its way into a poem about Black genius and racial justice

FILE - Philadelphia 76ers center Julius Erving (6) goes up and around the basket to score against Los Angeles Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (33) during first period action in fifth game of NBA Championships in Los Angeles, Ca., May 14, 1980. (AP Photo, File)