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New Music USA, a group advocating for new music discoveries in the United States is upping the ante for the nation’s orchestras. Their program, Amplifying Voices, has 30 orchestras collaborating to co-commission works by 9 composers of color. Two of them are in Texas. Vanessa Reed, the President and CEO of New Music USA says they’re trying to expand the canon of classical music.