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Don Shirley, the renowned Black pianist who was told he wouldn’t make it as a classical artist

Audio Fidelity RecordsDon Shirley as he appears on the cover of his 1959 album Piano. The 2018 film Green Book follows the true story of Black pianist Don Shirley and his tour through the Jim Crow ...
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Who Was Don Shirley? ‘Green Book’ Tries to Solve the Mystery

One of the moments in “Green Book” that reveals the most about Donald Shirley — a dandified, erudite piano virtuoso whose career was impeded by racial discrimination — doesn’t have anything to do with ...