Conductor Jordan Randall Smith received 2nd Place in the 2019 edition of The American Prize in Orchestral Conducting.
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Conductor Jordan Randall Smith received 2nd Place in the 2019 edition of The American Prize in Orchestral Conducting.
…a particularly pernicious pattern of argumentation that I want to identify, debate, and debunk. It is the argument that consciously selecting music with the aim of increasing equity, inclusion, and diversity in classical music makes it less likely that the performer will program “the best music,” the music of highest artistic integrity, because they are now selecting for an arbitrary trait rather than solely based on the musical merits.
Here’s what’s wrong with that: