Photograph by Stephen Hiltner.

Photograph by Stephen Hiltner.

Since 1991, the Bronx Conservatory of Music, a nonprofit arts organization, has provided low-cost education in classical music to a constituency that has been historically underexposed to the tradition. And at a time when music classes are being cut from public schools everywhere, it has become an unlikely success story: a weekly pop-up school that trains students, more than 80 percent of whom are black or Hispanic, in a musical tradition long characterized by a lack of racial diversity.

(Stephen Hiltner, “Saturdays in the Bronx With Bach,” NYTimes, 2-15-19)

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