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I watch a lot of YouTube videos of classical music performances. One thing I keep noticing is that the orchestras are almost entirely white people (or Asian people in Asian orchestras). Nobody ever comments on that; am I the only person who notices? Almost never is a black person in that orchestra. Somewhere on YouTube there's even a video of a Vienna Philharmonic performance with Leonard Bernstein conducting in which every single person in the orchestra is an older white male. Not a single woman in that orchestra.

Are these orchestras deliberately or unconsciously practicing racism, or is this just a cultural thing because black people as a group don't particularly like classical music and therefore tend not to practice and perform it, or, what is the reason for this? Any theories, y'all?

-- Ron