
"There are more voices to hear," says Roderick Cox, conducting the Minnesota Orchestra on Oct. 26, 2016.
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Roll Over Beethoven: Classical Music Confronts the White Elephant in the Room
In 137 years, the Metropolitan Opera has never presented an opera by a Black conductor (though there's finally one on the schedule). Fewer than 2 percent of the musicians in American orchestras are Black. Audiences look like the repertoire. But in this summer of protest, the classical world is finally facing the music.