Lafayette Symphony Orchestra has a new, black, artistic director/conductor. His inaugural concert, “Pleased to Meet You,” included Michael Ellis Ingram’s Overture to Jubilee, Mendelssohn, Debussy, and William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race. Promising start, stretching the audience.

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