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title: "Maybe skilled black musicians prefer rap, hip hop, or rock music? …"
date: 2020-07-17
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# Maybe skilled black musicians prefer rap, hip hop, or rock music? …

*July 17, 2020 · Facebook*

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[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html){target="_blank"}
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Maybe skilled black musicians prefer rap, hip hop, or rock music? Despite movie myths about \"band camp\", I\'m pretty sure rappers get laid a lot more than viola players.\
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\"American orchestras remain among the nation's least racially diverse institutions, especially in regard to Black and Latino artists. In a 2014 study, only 1.8 percent of the players in top ensembles were Black; just 2.5 percent were Latino. At the time of the Philharmonic's 1969 discrimination case, it had one Black player, the first it ever hired: Sanford Allen, a violinist. Today, in a city that is a quarter Black, just one out of 106 full-time players is Black: Anthony McGill, the principal clarinet.\"\
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html){target="_blank"}
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