On the banks of the Mississippi River – on African American classical composers (2/3) — Beethoven et les autres…

https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/5CxfhUGcwlQWHwj2fTkCpL

It is quite revealing that when the British classical music magazine Gramophone asked American conductor Gerald Schwarz to write an essay on “forgotten symphonies: the hidden giants of American music”, all the composers selected were white American men. Not one woman was chosen, and not one African American either, and I can’t think of ever […]

via On the banks of the Mississippi River – on African American classical composers (2/3) — Beethoven et les autres…