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by: Chris J. - Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:55 UTC

January 18, 2022

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA-January 15, 2022): EVERETT ASTOR LEE,
internationally acclaimed symphonic conductor, opera music director,
violinist and music scholar, passed away on January 12, 2022 in Malmö,
Sweden at the age of 105 years old.

Maestro Lee was a brilliant conductor and musician who contributed
enormously to classical music. He was the first African American to lead
the New York City Opera in their production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” in
1955. He was founder of the Cosmopolitan Symphony, the first African
American to conduct a major Broadway production, Leonard Bernstein’s “On
The Town” in 1945, the first African American to conduct a major symphony
orchestra in the south with the Louisville Orchestra and the first
African American to conduct a major opera company in the United States.
[....]

https://www.philasun.com/entertainment/maestro-everett-lee-conductor-
first-african-american-to-lead-the-new-york-city-opera-passes-away-at-105/

Everett Lee and the Racial Politics of Orchestral Conducting

http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/centers/hitchcock/publications/
amr/v43-1/oja.php

Chris