NPR.org: New York Philharmonic's Clarinetist Takes Two Knees To Protest Racism [Anthony McGill]

Anthony McGill

Credit: David Finlayson 

National Public Radio

June 15, 2020

In a viral YouTube video, the New York Philharmonic's Anthony McGill, a Black clarinetist, plays a mournful rendition of "America the Beautiful," then drops to both knees and holds his clarinet behind his back — as though he were being handcuffed.

Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with McGill about how the hashtag #TakeTwoKnees is spreading through the classical world

 

 https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/06/15/clarinetist-anthony-mcgill