10/03/08
In The News
More great press about the tour!
From the Chicago Tribune…
Sphinx looks to change makeup of U.S. orchestras
By John von Rhein | Chicago Tribune critic
October 3, 2008
For decades, professionals in classical music have furrowed their brows over the lack of minority representation in the player rosters of U.S. symphony orchestras. Although minorities have made tremendous strides in many other fields, African-Americans and Latinos make up only 1.7 to 1.8 percent of professional American orchestras, according to the most recent survey by the League of American Orchestras.Rather than wringing its hands over the situation, the Sphinx Organization is addressing the problem directly.
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And from the Urbana News-Gazette…
Harlem Quartet plays for Prairie Elementary students
Urbana students got down to Mozart on Wednesday morning.
They shook their shoulders to Duke Ellington, nodded their heads in time to a Cuban conga.
Packed in to the Prairie Elementary School gym, the students got a preview of the Harlem quartet, a nationally known string quartet playing with the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts tonight at 7:30.
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