The High Point Museum raised $16,300 to buy the piano from Guernsey's auction house in New York.
"I think what the exhibit needs to say—the story it needs to tell— is what the early musical influences were in John Coltrane's life and to share the story of his youth here," said Barbara Taylor, president of the museum.
The museum also owns a report that Coltrane wrote in the fifth grade, sheet music with his handwritten notes, and one of his Down Beat Awards.
Composer John Adams and theatre director Lileana Blain-Cruz retells the story of the Nativity, through the lens of Latin America.
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Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the new production, opening April 23.
The Cuban-born composer is this season's Debs Composer's Chair.
The cast is led by Bryonha Marie and Nathan Gunn, with Tony winner Ted Sperling at the baton.
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