Finesse, Precision and Logic: Musical Traditions and the African American Elite

On the night of February 22, 1946, Maestro Dean Dixon took the stage at Carnegie Hall to conduct the American Youth Orchestra, an interracial ensemble composed of exceptional young musicians from across the New York area (Du Bois 1946, 15). Dixon had founded the group in 1944 after receiving a prest...

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1. Verfasser:	Coady, Christopher
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	On the night of February 22, 1946, Maestro Dean Dixon took the stage at Carnegie Hall to conduct the American Youth Orchestra, an interracial ensemble composed of exceptional young musicians from across the New York area (Du Bois 1946, 15). Dixon had founded the group in 1944 after receiving a prestigious Rosenwald Fund fellowship (“46 Get Rosenwald” 1945, 2), and their debut was lauded in the African American press for presenting a pathway that “well-qualified” African American musicians might follow into “the classical field” (“Another Race Barrier Falls” 1944, 12). Throughout 1946 Dixon would lead the orchestra through some of