[BenLurkin]

"If tenure can protect incumbents, why can't racial considerations help candidates?"

Any FReeper logicians out there?

Old Ben is certainly no logician but that argument seem really pathetic to me.

[Chode]

can you say quotas???

[Ieatfrijoles]

I'd love to hear an affirmative action orchestra recreate the music on the Autumn Thunder compilation. I bet it would sound like the Little Rascals.

[L98Fiero]

"Aaron Dworkin, founder of the 10-year-old Michigan-based Sphinx Organization, dedicated to advancing the cause of minorities in classical music."

What cause is that? The cause to put more talented non-minority musicians out of work?

[MoralSense]

Nonsense. And any good musician of any color would agree it's nonsense.

[raybbr]

What the heck is with Michigan and racial diversity? Is there a deadly cloud of stupidity hanging over the state?

[dighton]

While we’re at it, let’s fix the stranglehold of dead Germans, Austrians, and Italians on composition.

(rolls eyeballs)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

"But would a more multihued orchestra also be a more multitalented one? Absolutely, argues Aaron Dworkin, founder of the 10-year-old Michigan-based Sphinx Organization, dedicated to advancing the cause of minorities in classical music."

Rubbish. People group (race) is not linked to talent/skill/aptitude.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Anyone remember Will Smith's TV show in the 90's "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air"? His character ridicules the violin-playing child in the African-American family as acting "white."

If non-Asian minorities want more group members playing in symphony orchestras, then they should stop humiliating those who are learning to play classical music.

[vpintheak]

Talent be damned! Diversity diversity diversity!