After last week’s shootings, an orchestral concert to benefit the Black Lives Matter movement, scheduled for Wednesday night at Cooper Union, has become tragically timely.

“The reasons why we’re having this concert are not good ones,” said the clarinetist and music teacher Eun Lee, who has been organizing the “Sing Her Name” event for the past year. “But I am looking forward to a communion of people.” ...

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