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  Kristi Brown-Montesano

  Chair of Music History, Colburn Conservatory of Music

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  Laura Danly

  Curator, Griffith Observatory

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  Dana Gioia

  Former California Poet Laureate, Librettist, Critic

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  Michael Hackett

  Professor of Theatre, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

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  Beatriz Ilari

  Associate Professor of Music Education, Chair of USC Department of Music Teaching & Learning

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  Muriel McClendon

  Associate Professor of History, UCLA