Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad
by
Rufus Jones Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Despite pervasive intolerance, Dean Dixon became in 1941 the first Black American to conduct the New York Philharmonic. Yet the acclaim that followed in his wake could not prevent him from departing his home country eight years later for Europe. There Dixon moved to a full roster of prestigious guest...