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The upcoming world premiere at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra of a classical music piece inspired by the late
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would probably have been impossible if not for a bunch of lawyers in the Chicago area, a Long Island fine arts foundation and an award-winning pianist and composer who put the deal together. Such is the art of financing new musical works in the midst of a pandemic. h Even in the best of economic times, finding funders for new orchestral works is typically difficult. h “You’re looking for support for something that doesn’t exist,” said Jeffrey Biegel, a pianist and composer on the faculty of Brooklyn College who has managed to bring together donors and composers to create more than a dozen musical works since 1999. “We have no idea what the first notes will sound like until we have enough money to pay for it.”