US orchestras maintain block on black players

US orchestras maintain block on black players

Orchestras

norman lebrecht

June 19, 2023

A survey by the League of American Orchestras shows that ethnic minorities now account for 21 percent of their musicians.

However, just 2.4 percent are African-American.

The needle has barely shifted in a decade. It was 1.8 percent in 2013.

Read the survey here.

Think about the consequences.

pictured: the late Michael Morgan, a lamentably underrated conductor

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