BY WALTER OPINDE Henry Lewis was a Black American orchestral conductor and double-bassist. At a teenage age of 16 years, Lewis joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic, thereby becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in the major orchestral symphony. Henry broke the racial barriers in the world of music as the first black music director and conductor […]
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