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M Ensemble Scores With Stirring Saga Of Race, Pride & Basketball In ‘The Kings of Harlem’

Music, sometimes tenderly introspective, sometimes upliftingly powerful, is deftly woven throughout the surging triumph of both the rise of the all-black 1939 New York Renaissance basketball team and M Ensemble’s moving recreation of the “Rens” banner year in Layon Gray’s Kings of Harlem.

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