New York Times: Great Divide at the Concert Hall, Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race

Jonathan Bailey Holland, associate professor of composition at Berklee College of Music, talks to New York Times contributor William Robin about why black composers remain on the outskirts of classical music. 

August 13, 2014

William Robin, for the New York Times, looks at the factors that may contribute to black composers being less viable than their white counterparts, though Jonathan Bailey Holland, Berklee professor and award-winning composer, says that race is not central to his musical identity, and that if he made it be a defining trait, it could be confining. 

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