Finally Black Classical composers make it on to the air waves

Margaret Bonds Radio 3 is taking steps to diversify the classical canon by pledging to broadcast “unfairly forgotten” composers from ethnic minority backgrounds. A Sudanese musician who conducted an orchestra for blind women, a pioneering African-American pianist and a Scottish-Jewish cantor are among those whose works will be performed — in some cases for the […]

Finally Black Classical composers make it on to the air waves
Margaret Bonds Radio 3 is taking steps to diversify the classical canon by pledging to broadcast “unfairly forgotten” composers from ethnic minority backgrounds. A Sudanese musician who conducted an orchestra for blind women, a pioneering African-American pianist and a Scottish-Jewish cantor are among those whose works will be performed — in some cases for the […]