La confidence de Kwame Ryan à Madame Charlotte Higgins, correspondante du Gardians est terrible. La comparaison avec le Chevalier de Saint-Georges s’impose. L’un aura été au 18 ème siècle une belle exeption. Kwame Ryan aujourd’hui devient une exeption mondiale. Tous les deux auront bénéficié du soutien de Papa et Maman pour arriver au somet de leur art.
De Trinidad à la Guadeloupe il n’y a qu’un petit vole de quelques heures. En faisons nous assez pour que ces talents ne soient plus des exeptions ? La question est posée !
Tous nos voeux accompagnent Kwame Ryan dans sa très belle aventure Bordelaise pour le moment.
The young, British-educated conductor making his UK debut at the opening concert of the
Edinburgh international festival this week said yesterday that he had « no optimism for the future » for black children making it as the stars of classical music. Canadian-born Kwamé Ryan, 34, went to school in Britain and studied music at
Cambridge
University before continuing his training in
Germany. But the message given to young, black people, particularly in
North America, was, he said, that you can be a star athlete; you can be a pop star. « But neither of those require a special education. To be a conductor you have to start very young and the awareness that that is a possibility for black children is not encouraged in schools or in the media. « It’s a question of exposure and it is a deficit that is passed on from generation to generation. Seeing droves of black people in opera houses and concert halls is the exception, and that means the seeds have been planted for the next 20 years. I am afraid I have no optimism for the future. » He added: « At no point in my career have I felt disadvantaged by my skin colour and at no point have I felt I have been advantaged for it. »
Charlotte Higgins, arts correspondent
Tuesday August 10, 2004
The Guardian
Guadeloupe Attitude 