With producer Mike Rogers, Le Sonic have released songs like "Any Moment," “Riverside Drive” and “I’ll Be The One” with Lauran Beluzo, Robert Lee and others
Two Classically Trained Musicians Excel Despite Lack of Diversity In Symphony Orchestras
While it may be common these days to see popular R&B artists like Kendrick Lamar perform alongside a symphony orchestra, it’s not so common to see African-American musicians playing instruments in
actual orchestras themselves. However, it was this uncommon rarity that brought classically trained musicians Monica Hargrave and Kim Scott together.
Hargrave is a professional harpist, while Scott is a professional flutist. The two met while playing together more than a dozen years ago in the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra in Alabama. Scott recalls, “So I’m in rehearsal, and I look over and I see another unfamiliar African-American face, and it happened to be an African-American harpist, and I had never seen up close and personal, an African-American harpist!”