The new generation of classical music - black and modern

While popular music is constantly evolving, classical music is stubbornly frozen in time. The field in the USA is overwhelmingly white - black musicians make up only 1.8 percent of orchestra members, Latino musicians just 2.5 percent, and white musicians comprise 85 percent of orchestra members. The general population is around 12 percent Latino, 12 percent black. Classically trained musicians Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus are changing the rules - their collaborative project Black Violin, with a unique sound that fuses classical string instrumentation with hip-hop, has been attracting vast audiences from low-income children, which might also be an entry for many of them. Reasons to be Cheerful tells the pretty story.