Friday, August 13, 2021

Yes, There is Racism in Classical Music

It's 2021, and if there's anything that white people in the US should have learned in the last couple of years, it's that racism is pervasive and systemic across American society. It doesn't matter that any individual doesn't consider themselves racist or that any particular person doesn't behave in racist ways. That's what "systemic" means.

Here are some articles about this that have run in the Times recently, about what Asian and Asian-American musicians face in their lives and careers. It's especially dismaying that the only person of color on a DEI committee at San Francisco Symphony resigned from the committee. That tells you a lot about how effective and useful he thought the committee was.

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