The Status of African-Americans In American Classical Music
Just a few years after its beginnings, The New York Opera Newsletter tackled the difficult topic of race discrimination. In some of the first letters subscribers wrote to TNYON, they complained of discrimination in the workplace. TNYON set to work surveying readers and published the findings in December 1995, reprinted here. Has discrimination in the arts drastically improved or gotten worse? Please take a moment to visit our website and complete the 2008 Discrimination Survey. Watch for the results in an upcoming issue of CS, and let’s see how far we’ve come since 1995.