remarkable because this was the very first time many of these >> reporter: maestro marlon daniel conducts this festival called "the color of music" now in its third year. >> a lot of get pigeon holed into jazz and it's a big stereotype. they say there are not any musicians ever color doing classical music when there are tons of us. >> reporter: robert davis says in most symphonies he sticks out as a black classical artist but not here. >> you usually get to see the same ones. then i came down here and it's a whole other group and where are they coming from? so i was very shocked about that. >> reporter: the festival also highlights black classical composers. on this night it was adolfus. a white gunman opened fire, killing nine. >> we are very lucky. >> reporter: businessman lee pringle who founded the event hopes sights like this will help diversify other orchestras. >> i think most orchestra want to change. they just don't know how to change. >> reporter: and how do they change? >> by having people at the table who look like me. >> music should be colorblind and to make it that way, you

remarkable because this was the very first time many of these musicians had ever played maestro marlon daniel conduct not only the orchestra but festival, called the color of music, now in its third year. >> a lot of musicians of color get pigeonholed into jazz and hip-hop. >> reporter: it's a stertype. >> it's a big stereotype. a lot of people claim there are not any musicians of color out there doing classical music, when there actually are in reality tons of us. >> reporter: clarinetist robert davis says in most symphonies he sticks out as a black classical artist, but not here. >> you usually see the same ones, but then i came down here and there's a whole other group. where are they coming from? i was very shocked about that. >> reporter: the festival also highlights black classical composersop on this night it was aldolphus hailstork and his church street serenade, performed just one block from the historic black church where fire killing nine. >> we're very lucky. >> reporter: businessman lee pringle, who founded the event, hopes sights like this will help diversify other orchestras. >

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