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Next Saturday, April 9, at 8pm at the Seligman Center for Performing Arts, Chamber Music Detroit premieres a new work by composer Jeff Scott and poet Robert Laidler. Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers combines Scott’s music with Laidler’s text – based on the personal stories and writings of several former “juvenile lifers” in Michigan. It promises to be a powerful experience, not just as a work of musical art, but also as social commentary. The piece is scored for wind quintet, piano, cello and narrator and will be performed by Grammy-winning wind quintet Imani Winds with pianist Cory Smythe, cellist Seth Parker Woods and Robert Laidler as narrator. Jeff Scott and Robert Laidler speak with 90.9’s Peter Whorf about the piece…begin with Laidler speaking of the text’s inspiration…