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The National Endowment
(or the Arts is a willing, if not
knowledgable, orcheStrator
of symphonic bias in
its continuing use of taxpapers,
and matching private
funds, to dole out
I millions of grant dollars to
I symphony orchestras
throughout the USA. Just
Iiast ween this quasi-oHiciaP
federal agency announced a
record $10.8 million of governmfnt
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chestras to keep them muI
sically sound through the
'79-'80 performing season.
What lifted these eyebrows
and inspired this
write beef are figures which
came this way from a study
of 121 symphony orchestras
throughout the nation.
I Pirct ?Ati? UU-! J '
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some 20,000 professional
musicians making the longhaired
music within them,
only about 150 of them are
black.
To tip the iceberg the
Endowment did earmark
$25,000 of this . unusual
largess for "Music of
America,** a Brooklyn Phil?harmonia
series which ineludes
works by contemporary
Black, Spanish and
native' American composers.
This drop in the pit i*
the nnlv snellerf nut
to minority musicians, excluding
white women who
are more abundant in such
orchestras than blacks or
other "minorities."
Endowment and public
funds will continue the
t. ; orchestration of bias in the
personal arrangements of
symphony orchestras.
^ With no dependency on the
I box-office for financial success
the picture is bleak
I indeed for black classical
ambition as there are no
joyful outlook for them in
an art fnrrrv^urhirh
more money than any other
component of the federallysubsidized
cultural
programs^
Now don't let this write
beef givf yog the kiea ihat
, the Endowment for the Arts
is the only organization
which seems to have closed
eyes to musical bias. Not
t ^. ??
oy a long snot, we recorders
of pop music have been
at it just as long, but in a
different way. In hopes of
stemming the tide of black
exclusion in the higher ancj
more lucrative whitr^eetfelon
of this worldwide profession,
The Black Mule
Association was founded a
year ago. It held its
founding convention in
, Phila in mid-June and 1 got
these comments frojn
Major Robinson, my main
eye and ear man. According
to him? "BMA" is in
noway shaping up as a
musical NAACP. In fact
thinkers departing the convention
wondered in earshot
how an org. expecting
to right the wrongs against
blacks in the retail and
promotional fields of music,
' can do so without some civil
rights action.
The major beef at the
convention delt with the
various forms of rank discrimination
within the pop.
ular music industry against
blacks, who by and large
are the foundation of the
trade, but are denied their
rightful share of this billion
dollar industry. Ken
r.nmViU an H Vii? nnrtner
Viaiuuiv miw ? |rw. v
I founders of the PhiladelI
phia International Records,
I yed the BMA
?tyr-^3y,
and creative persons, but
highly conservative
businessmen.
The question is, will they
adopt a new technique to
resolve the problems of
those angry and bitter black
businesspersons who are
beating on the doers of the
rni?io.whirl seeking an
equal opportunity spin.
They can take it from here
that many of the SOO-bro-sis
attenting BMA's founding
convention left with a bit of
skepticism, wondering if
they were being conned, or
"was BMA a NATRA clone?
Time alone will tell!
?Lobby Sights and Sounds
...Convention plannexs
were applauded for laying
down no-nonsense rules.
No hitting on women not
your own, and no visible
pot smoking. BMA veep
Smokey Robinson smoothly
moderated the hottest
panel of the confab-the one
involving black promoters
who can not see the halls
for all the white cats with
contracts on the black stars.
He even had to straighten
out his good buddy,
Stovto Wonder, who got the
wrong hearing* of what he
had to say.
LeBaron Taylor pointed
out a light at the end of the
tunnel as to how blacks are
moving behind veep desk's
of recording companies.
TL-.lt. l_: _ aUI. ?! it- A
i urn s nis uuc wuh LDrtwax.
White House Associate
press Secretary mark
Hendeson showed off his
fiancee as they rocked~to
the v rhythm of The
Emotions. However all
soundsweredrowned out
when* Everett Smith, the
Cotillion exec started yelling,
"is there a doctor in
the house," when his expectant
wife, Sherry, informed
him in the lobby
that she felt dizzy. Simo
Doe came to the rescue
with > an aspirin. ^Dapper
ex-dejay John Brandy
showed how millionaires
act as he let loose some of
thp nil nmfitc pnmino hie
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way. He nixed his way
spinning when he wedded a
Sun Oil fortune. Noreen
Woods,, the Atlantic Records
veep and highest
black female exec in the
biz, got folks wondering
about the donor of that
10-carat stone adding
sparkle to her eyes. All
those cats, who all but got
ruptured retinas eyeballing
a shapely doll whose every
move spelled SEXY, got
out of town early when
"rest-room" time revealed
that "She" was a
transvestite.
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NCSA Concerts
Two concerts in Crawford
Hall Friday and Monday
evenings at 8:15 p.m., will
mark the send-off for two
groups of musicians from
the N.C; S^iool of the Arts
who are leaving for classical
and jazz performances
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All LvUl W \J\~
The closing concert of the i
summer International Music
Program Friday evening
will be an ^all-orchestral J
pfogram, to include both
the Overture to "Tannhauser"
and "The Arrival
of the Guests" from the
same opera of Richard
Wtfgner.
Monday, July 16, the
NCSA Jazz Quartet wilt
play its only WinstonSalem
concert before departing
for Europe. The
. concert at 8:15 p.m. in
Crawford Hall is not included
in the subscription
series of the International
Orchestra.
Members of the quartet,
.ailregular NCbA students,_
are Kofi Burbridge, flute;
Jon Metzger, vibraphone;j
Joseph Farley, bassr^and
John Hanks, drums. The
quartet members will tour
with the International Orchestra
in both Germany
and Italy, and will play
independent booking at
|military bases during
the tour. The International
Program performers leave
for Europe on Wednesday,
July 18,
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