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Elayne Jones, pioneering percussionist, is dead at 94

Por: The Boston Globe Nation December 23, 2022

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Elayne Jones, a timpanist who was said to be the first Black principal player in a major American orchestra when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972, and who mounted a legal battle over racial and sexual discrimination when she was denied tenure two years later, died Saturday at her home in Walnut Creek, California. She was 94.Her daughter Cheryl Stanley said the cause was dementia.The charismatic, Juilliard-trained Ms. Jones was not... + full article



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