In an interview on the website Ozy, Charles Overton, one of this country’s few black harpists, discusses his artistic and career trajectory, from a fifth-grader in the Richmond schools to studies at the Berklee College of Music to a showcase performance in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Encore BSO Recitals” series:
http://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/a-black-harpist-makes-classical-music-for-the-moment/398248/
(via http://artsjournal.com)