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So, I'm watching the today show and they are doing a feature about classicial musicans who happen to be people of color. They blew my socks off. I found myself appauding after a Latino girl played the violin. Check this dude out. He is making a difference.
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Mentor: Dworkin with some of Sphinx's Detroit public-school students
THE ARTIST Aaron Dworkin, Sphinx Organization
A violinist whose life is introducing the music he loves to inner-city children.Growing up in rural Hershey, Pa., Aaron Dworkin was something of a double oddity: a black kid with a violin in his hand. There was only one other black family in town, and they looked nothing like Dworkin's household. He was adopted and raised by Jewish parents. His birthmother is Irish Catholic; his father is black. Diversity is literally in his blood. So picking up a violin at the age of 5 was just one more thing that made him different. It wasn't until college, though, that he realized how special it made him. At the University of Michigan, a music professor introduced him to the work of African-American composer William Grant Still. "I was overwhelmed," says Dworkin, 35. "No one ever told me this music existed. It would enrich so many people in the minority community. I thought, Why aren't they hearing it, too?"