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By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated April 22, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Classical music has a diversity problem and unfortunately, everyone in the industry knows it.
The difference is, someone actually decided to do something about it. That someone is Jason Ikeem Rodgers. And the something is Orchestra Noir, the all-Black orchestra he started in Atlanta.
But the idea started long before that.
When Rodgers landed in Atlanta fourteen years ago, he had
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