Job comes with double bass
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has announced Endea Owens as its 2023 MAC Music Innovator. Owens is an award-winning bassist known for her vibrancy and international array of musical projects and collaborations. Endea is the bassist for singer Jon Batiste’s band Stay Human, house bassist for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and creator of The Community Cookout initiative, which brings hot meals and free music to communities in need.
The Orchestra’s MAC Music Innovator is a year-long music residency that works to showcase and highlight Black leaders of classical music. Selected musicians embody artistic innovation and a passion for community engagement and education.
Jon Batiste hasn’t been with The Late Show since August. The new band leader is Louis Cato.
Endea Owens is still a part of the band, however.
But apparently “Stay Human” is still a band, even if not labeled as such under Louis’ direction on the Late Show.
More drivel as we continue to destroy classical music.
If she’s playing in the Late Show band, she’s a great player. That’s all that matters.
More racially prejudiced comments as we continue to encounter Russian trolls on this website.
I heard her in a concert at Lincoln Center a few years ago, as part of their weekly series at the David Rubenstein Atrium. Her focus may not be strictly classical, but she’s truly talented and quite appealing.
Is she a black leader in classical music as the award states? More woke garbage. Go buy more p&g products to support this crap.
The orchestra should pay the musicians better instead of spending money on stuff like that.
I suspect that your lack of enthusiasm for the subject of the article has prevented you from checking on some of the financial facts about this orchestra. Here are some links, both post- and pre-Covid:
https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/11/06/cso-announces-historic-labor-contract-with-its-mus.html
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2016/10/highest_paid_orchestras.html
https://theviolinchannel.com/cincinnati-symphony-26-million-fund-raising-development-ray-increase-new-recruits/