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When he was in college, he met Duke Ellington. \\u201cI was a freshman with a huge afro, an Angela Davis afro, and he pointed at me across the room and said, \\u2018You must be a musician.\\u2019\\u201d Thus anointed, he went on to compose operas including X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Central Park Five.