The Glenn Show John McWhorter and Don Baton – DEI in the Orchestral World
0:00 Is Florence Price’s music worthy of its current popularity?
12:20 The decline of blind auditions
18:27 Do diverse orchestras attract diverse audiences and musicians?
23:26 Why Don is protecting his real identity
27:00 Glenn delivers a soliloquy on humanity
32:06 John: Eliminating blind auditions is “bat s**t crazy”
38:22 Should John’s daughters benefit from affirmative action?
Links and Readings
Don’s Substack, The Podium
Don’s series on Florence Price: Part One, Part Two, Part Three
Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3
Van Cliburn’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2
Anthony Tommasini’s NYT piece, “To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions”
William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony
William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1
John’s NYT piece, “Stop Making Asian Americans Pay the Price for Campus Diversity”
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