Since its inception in 2007, Los Angeles Opera’s Recovered Voices project has focused on music that was suppressed by the Nazis and/or created by composers who died in the Holocaust. For its 2023–2024 season, the company has expanded the project’s reach. James Conlon conducts a double bill featuring William Grant Still’s Highway 1 USA and Alexander Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (The Dwarf). “My interest is in bringing back neglected music — particularly music where we know the composer was, to a greater or lesser extent, neglected because of political or racial prejudice,” Conlon said in an interview. “So it is an extension of the same concept. Because of prejudice, this music is not as well known as it deserves to be.” Read more here.