{"id":17614,"date":"2021-12-05T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=17614"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:24:54","slug":"margaret-rosezarian-harris-1st-female-african-american-to-conduct-the-los-angeles-philharmonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/margaret-rosezarian-harris-1st-female-african-american-to-conduct-the-los-angeles-philharmonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Rosezarian Harris, 1st female African American to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MRHarris.png\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"600\" data-large_image_height=\"773\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17615\" src=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MRHarris.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MRHarris.png 600w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MRHarris-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I learned composer William Grant Still conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic July 23, 1936 many years ago.\u00a0 However, I\u00a0 only learned on Dec 5, 2021 from a Facebook post by Joshua Cheek that Margaret Rosezarian Harris was the 1st female African American to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic. However, I am not surprised that the\u00a0historical\u00a0event occurred during the tenure of Maestro Zubin Mehta.\u00a0 Please see\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2000-mar-23-mn-11896-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2000-mar-23-mn-11896-story.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639062269316000&amp;usg=AOvVaw00BDS9zE9uxMQ6gqoIa2kY\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/<wbr \/>archives\/la-xpm-2000-mar-23-<wbr \/>mn-11896-story.html<\/a> and\u00a0pic (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ABWBD Black History Month Spotlight Series - Margaret Rosezarian Harris\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cfa9VFWsfKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned composer William Grant Still conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic July 23, 1936 many years ago.\u00a0 However, I\u00a0 only learned on Dec 5, 2021 from a Facebook post by Joshua Cheek that Margaret Rosezarian Harris was the 1st female African American to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic. However, I am not surprised that the\u00a0historical\u00a0event&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[449,628],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-los-angeles-philharmonic","tag-margaret-rosezarian-harris","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17618,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions\/17618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}