Connecticut’s Hartford Symphony Orchestra will host an online panel discussion, “Confronting Anti-Black Racism in American Orchestras,” on July 7 at 4 p.m. ET on Zoom and Facebook Live. Panelists will include Aaron Flagg, chair and associate director of Juilliard Jazz, chair of the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee for the League of American Orchestras, and former dean and professor at Connecticut’s Hartt School of Music; violinist Randall Goosby, a 2010 Sphinx Concerto Competition winner who performed with HSO in January 2020; Hartford Symphony board member Angela Griffin, director of music and performing arts for the Simsbury Public School District; Calida N. Jones, assistant director of education and engagement at the Hartt School; soprano and arts educator Jolie Rocke, chair of the Alumni of Color Taskforce for the University of Hartford; and Carlvin Sanon, production and library manager of the Juilliard School’s Jazz Studies Department. The Hartford Symphony Orchestra said it is “committed to examining its history of inaction to effectively confront the racist systems and structures that have long oppressed and marginalized Black musicians, composers, and communities. This process starts with listening to the lived experiences of Black artists.” Watch the event at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s8izZs2mSoOIiydduxiSww or https://www.facebook.com/HartfordSymphony/.
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