"Up until a few years ago, it was fairly normal for most orchestras to include new music and music by lesser-known composers as a type of 'medicine,'" says Paul Haas, music director of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas. "As in, 'You may not like this as much as the Beethoven, but it's good for you!' And most of that music was written by white men, if not dead, maybe just old, white men.