Harlem Renaissance composer Harry Lawrence Freeman wrote his opera Voodoo in 1914. In 1928 he registered its copyright, and had it first performed on a radio program, and then staged in New York with a full orchestra.

Obscurity followed. Voodoo was never published, and not performed again until 2015, in a well-reviewed concert at Columbia University, which has Freeman’s scores and papers. Anyone anywhere can take it up freely when it joins the public domain in 6 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown