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2022-05-15 00:16:35
Face2FaceAfrica.com: ‘If I can’t join you, then I will lead you’: How Lee broke color barriers on the conductor’s podium
Everett Lee (Photo: The New York Times) Face2Face Africa May 13, 2022 Mildred Europa Taylor Everett Lee was already a concertmaster leading white theater orchestras when he made Broadway history in 1945. He was appointed music director of Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Town” in September 1945, making him the first Black conductor to lead production on Broadway. Per the Chicago Defender, Lee was the first Black conductor “to wave the baton over a white orchestra in a Broadway production.” Despite racial barriers, he went on to achieve other firsts. In 1953, he conducted the Louisville Orchestra in Kentucky — the first time a Black man led a white orchestra in the South. Two years later, Lee conducted the New York City Opera, another first for him. He could have done more but for the racism […]
2022-01-23 01:05:18
Everett A. Lee (1916-2022) (Press photo) Ebony By Rashad Grove January 21, 2022 Everett Lee, who broke down racial barriers as the first Black conductor on Broadway, passed away on Jan. 12 at a hospital in Malmo, Sweden, the New York Times reports. He was 105.Lee’s daughter, Eve Lee, confirmed his passing. The Chicago Defender called him the first Black conductor “to wave the baton over a white orchestra in a Broadway production.” Everett Astor Lee was born on Aug. 31, 1916, in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he started on the violin at age 8. Noticing his musical dexterity, Lee’s family moved to Cleveland in 1927 to expose him to the arts. In Cleveland, he was mentored by the Orchestra’s conductor, Artur Rodzinski, and studied with concertmaster Joseph Fuchs at the Cleveland Institute of Music. […]
2022-01-20 19:08:08
He was known as the first Black conductor on Broadway and the first to conduct a white orchestra in the South. Mr. Lee went on to a successful career in Europe.
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