Making Change
/Did you know that on average only 8% of the music performed in classical music is by women? Doesn't seem right does it? The number for underrepresented racial, ethnic, cultural heritages is even lower, 6%. This is not what our community looks like is it? That's why our programming is different. Read the study here.
This season, 31% of our programming is music by women and 36% is by underrepresented groups. And at 50% of music by living composers we are smashing the typical 16% of our industry.
Upper L: Nilou nour, kristin kuster, valerie coleman, shelley washington, cindy mctee, syreah conaway, florence b price.
This is nothing new for us, we've been doing it for years, and we're going to keep doing it, reaching for even broader representation because we can do even better.
It doesn't mean we don't love and perform the music of the past, in fact our goal is to re-define the core of what classical music is by putting the music of women, minorities and living composers on equal footing with the rich history of our art form.
We need your help!
Donate to our annual campaign to help us make change. People are starting to notice what we're doing and how successful we've been at it, but we can't do any of this without the support of our community.
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By check: PO Box 30008, University City, MO 63130