[Dixielandjazz] OT: Women in Music was Electronic Enhancment

[Stan Brager]

Tom;

While there have been great strides toward removing biases, they still
exist. Please read the following article:

http://www.osborne-conant.org/flier.htm

Sexism, racism, etc, has not been stopped.

Stan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <TCASHWIGG at aol.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] OT: Women in Music was Electronic Enhancment


> In a message dated 1/31/04 9:57:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> sbrager at socal.rr.com writes:
>
> > While this speaks about women in symphonic orchestras, it demonstrates
that
> > there is still a problem for many men to accept women musicians as
equals.
> > There is also racial biases in some symphonic orchestras.
> >
> > My point is, Bob, that while many musical organizations have made great
> > strides, there is still much to do.
> >
> > Stan
> > Stan Brager
> > Trombonist-in-Training
> >
> >
> This statement is absurd Stan, Racisim and not accepting women musicians
in
> Symphonic orchestras was stopped at exactly the same date and time it was
> halted in OKOM orchestras, :))
>
> We have made that very very clear to me many times in the past on this
list,
> so let's don't drag it up again, :))
>
> Cheers,
>
> Doubting Thomas Wiggins
>