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"York the Explorer" tells the story of York, an enslaved Black man who was part of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Performers stopped by the Gert Boyle Studio at OPB in October to sing excerpts on Think Out Loud. The opera was created by Grammy Award-nominated Portland musician Aaron Nigel Smith, who performs as Trenchtown, a mystical storyteller. Jasmine Johnson plays Rose, York's mother, in the opera, which debuted at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton. Cedric Berry, who plays