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Originally Posted by GirlySports

Since we are talking about dumb NYT articles, here is one.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...-race.amp.html

How are blind auditions unfair? Maybe blacks and Latinos just aren't into classical music?

Jeez what next. The only thing a professional orchestra should “reflect” is music.

Only the most hardcore classical artists are hanging in there now. You can go see an opera for 15 bucks. Used to be 100 bucks was cheap. The quality of opera singing declined when looks became more important than singing ability. Believe it or not singers have been fired for being too fat! All this to compete with pop music and Broadway.

The bel canto teachers I know were losing students left and right to teachers who lean more towards pop and musical theater well before we all had to go on Zoom. If anything, white people are leaning more towards Black and Latino music.