Positive Discrimination

Surveying the waiting-to-listen-to CDs on my desk, I note Sueye Park, Alina Ibragimova, Sabine Devieilhe, Fanny Clamagirand, Diana Tishchenko, and Arabella Steinbacher. Not a male in sight! Female musicians appear to have taken over the classical world (apart from baritones and basses). About time some men appeared; maybe “positive discrimination” (an oxymoron if ever there were one) was applied to classical musicians -- particularly to concert violinists.