Less than 5% of orchestra members are Black or Latino, but the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles is trying to change that tune.
On any given Sunday night, Chuck Dickerson can be found at a church leading rehearsals for the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, which he founded at the request of several African-American music students.
"African Americans make up 1.8% of the orchestra work force in the United States," Dickerson said."Latinos make up 2.5% of the orchestra work force in the United States. And it's been that way for 40 or 50 years.""What we do in music is we teach excellence," Dickerson said."When you learn those skills in music, those skills are transferable into other aspects of your life.
That confidence has brought the youth orchestra's budding musicians to one of music's biggest stages: the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where they've played a season-ending concert for the past ten years. "Man, you cannot compare the pride that resounds both in the hearts of those kids, but in their families and everybody they touch just because they've played on that stage," Dickerson said.
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