Building audience diversity is not about PR programs, Black History Month concerts, or playing diverse composers on a few programs. It’s about not reducing an entire population in our community to the color of their skin. Building audience diversity is about realizing that “diversity” is more nuanced. It’s about realizing that we connect by building …
How to Build Audience Diversity, with Jeri Lynne Johnson Read More »
Today we’re talking with Mei-Ann Chen, Music Director of Chicago Sinfonietta, about enhancing your rehearsals with Rehearsal Language, how she led the orchestra to win a MacArthur Award for their Theatrical and Diverse Programming, and how her Project Inclusion Conducting Fellows learn and prepare for a professional conducting career. This interview was originally recorded for …
PT101: “Polishing the Potential in Young Conductors,” with Mei-Ann Chen Read More »
Today we talk with Anna Edwards, Music Director of the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra, the Saratoga Orchestra, and the Pacific Northwest Conducting Institute, about how and why to seek out music by underrepresented composers, why conductors (women especially) should embrace their own physicality and body type, and why being comfortable on the podium is critical to …
PT95: “Finding Comfort in Who You Are,” with Anna Edwards Read More »
Today we talk with Elizabeth de Brito, host of The Daffodil Perspective, the first gender-balanced, racially equitable, and inclusive classical radio show in the world, celebrating female composers every week. In its two years so far, Elizabeth has discovered and shared mountains of music that, unfortunately, you’ve never heard by women and composers of color …
Today we talk with Jordan Randall Smith about Florence Price and the upcoming festival dedicated to her work, the process of finding hidden gems by underrepresented composers, and why we should focus our efforts on promoting fewer living composers more.
