That's the way God planned it
Another much needed move towards equality in classical music comes with the appointment of African-American Thomas Wilkins (above) to the post of Youth and Family Concerts Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A few nights back we saw Genius Within: The Inner life of Glenn Gould, aka 'the Foss family movie'. Glenn Gould's "we could be looking at thousands of dollars" radio documentary about Petula Clark gets a mention in the movie but her groundbreaking pressing the flesh with Harry Belafonte on prime time American TV in 1968 does not, so here is the link.
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also Rudolph Dunbar -
http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/04/berlin-philharmonics-first-black.html
redlymben.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_DePreist
Interesting trivia - he's the nephew of Marian Anderson.