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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jason Moran is no stranger to incorporating his personal interests into his concerts. In the past decade, the 47-year-old jazz pianist has collaborated with skateboarders on a halfpipe, held open-floor dance parties and dabbled in hip-hop improvisation with rapper Q-Tip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Moran is exploring his personal family history in a concert called \u003cem>Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration\u003c/em>, coming to Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on Thursday, Feb. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concert is a musical exploration of the Great Migration, the decades-long period in the 20th century when Black families fled the racism and lynching of the Jim Crow South. It’s co-led by Moran’s wife, the acclaimed mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, and the stacked program, organized specially for the Bay Area, includes trumpeter Ambrose Akinsmure, saxophonist Howard Wiley and the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church Ensemble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to overestimate the Great Migration’s effect on Black culture, and, by extension, American culture, Moran says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Six million African Americans departing the South for places North, Northeast, and to the West from 1910 to 1970 reshapes the way the country sounds,” Jason explains, in a joint phone interview with Alicia. “The songs that they make, and the stories they write, and the dances they dance, and the poems they recite, the prayers they lift up, the ceremonies they create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ambrose-about-04.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit plays the trumpet, in side view\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909511\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ambrose-about-04.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ambrose-about-04-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/ambrose-about-04-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland-based trumpeter Ambrose Akinsmure, whose latest album ‘on the tender spot of every calloused moment’ was nominated for a Grammy Award, is a performer at ‘Two Wings.’ \u003ccite>(Artist Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The songs performed in \u003cem>Two Wings\u003c/em> span the Great Migration era, and include the jazz of the Harlem Renaissance, show tunes, gospel hymns, classical music and the Moran’s own compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concert premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2019 and has traveled from city to city, but Alicia feels a special resonance in bringing it to the Bay Area. Alicia’s ancestors moved from Georgia to Philadelphia after emancipation, and her grandparents came to Pasadena after World War II for work. Her mother met her father at Stanford University, and she herself was born in Redwood City. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alicia points out that along with employment opportunities, California offered education for her ancestors, who went “where they had to go to get the level that matched their intellectual and philosophical capacities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One song from the show, “Believe Me,” addresses the state directly. “You don’t need me to tell you / All the things that one can do / In sunny California,” she sings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those things include tennis, riding horses, surfing, scuba diving. “But really the subtext of that is also one can be in a non-segregated classroom in California,” Alicia says. “One can work at a tech firm in California. That’s what my parents did, and that’s what the song is about.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3Pq_u3F7xdo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3Pq_u3F7xdo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Conducted by Tania León and including the chamber ensemble Imani Winds and the New York jazz trio Harriet Tubman, the concert also includes narration by professor Donna Jean Murch, whose book \u003cem>Living for the City\u003c/em> traces the formation of the Black Panther Party in Oakland—and the ways the Great Migration brought its founders together. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area, as many know, is now experiencing a Great Exodus, as rents skyrocket and new development pushes out the very same Black families that settled here during the Great Migration. The Morans, who’ve seen the same changes in their neighborhood in Harlem, are sympathetic to the challenges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best practical protection against gentrification for the working middle class is to “buy your house and don’t sell it,” Alicia says. “But you have to stay working and you have to stay middle class, and those things, for all Americans … they’re under attack all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason offers a reminder that older people—people in power—are the ones to be held accountable. “I’m loathe to say it, but we often try to lop it onto the youth. But the youth are the last to need the education. It’s the grownups. The grownups have hardened into a thinking that their way is right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003cem>Two Wings\u003c/em>, Jason says, the hope is to span that divide, as the concert brings different ages and backgrounds under one roof for a musical conversation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are multiple languages spoken at many times,” he says, “and we \u003cem>must\u003c/em> get better at how to translate it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration’ is presented on Thursday, Feb. 17, at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://calperformances.org/events/2021-22/jazz/two-wings-2122/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://sfcmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Community Music Center\u003c/a> (CMC) is breaking ground Wednesday on a new building next door to its existing facility on Capp Street in The Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Rulyak Steinberg, executive director of the 100-year-old non-profit, says the expansion will almost double the number of students CMC serves, which currently stands at around 3,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been short of space for about 30 years,” says Steinberg. “F\u003cb>\u003c/b>or us to be able to to continue to say we serve everyone, that’s really a high priority for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new building at 552 Capp Street will add soundproofed classroom and performance spaces as well as increase ADA accessibility. “We expect to welcome over a thousand new students to our expanded Mission campus,” Steinberg says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CMC purchased the new building 10 years ago. Steinberg says it will cost around $15 million to renovate, of which around $13 million has already been raised through philanthropy and market tax credit financing\u003ci>. \u003c/i>The building is scheduled to open next February, capping a year of \u003ca href=\"https://sfcmc.org/centennial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">centennial celebrations\u003c/a> for the organization which also includes musical commissions and performances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roots that Go Back More Than A Century\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roots of CMC extend back over a century to 1912, to the founding of the music department at the Dolores Street Girl’s Club settlement house. Violinist and nurse Gertrude Field moved to San Francisco from New York to become its first director. She went on to establish CMC as an independent organization—then called Community Music School—in November 1921, in its current location at 544 Capp Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-800x1111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-800x1111.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-1020x1417.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-160x222.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-768x1067.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-1106x1536.jpg 1106w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-1474x2048.jpg 1474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-scaled.jpg 1843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CMC Founding Director Gertude Field. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Community Music Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The students back then were primarily immigrant students in the settlement house tradition. So for them, CMC was a place to find community and to do the things that were common in settlement houses,” says Steinberg. “It was a place to practice English, a place to make music, a place to do crafts or do job training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CMC Today\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community-building and music-making aspects of that original mission are still very much at the heart of CMC’s work today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit provides solo and group lessons in a range of musical styles such as Chinese and Western classical, Latin and Jazz. There’s a Black Music Studies program, summer camps, a choir for older adults, and choir for people who self-identify as transgender, intersex, or gender-queer, among many other offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of the center’s students are under 18, come from low-income households and study for free or at a reduced cost. Nearly half of them identify as people of color. According to Steinberg, CMC gave out just over $2.9 million in direct financial aid last year.\u003cem> \u003c/em>Among the recipients is 17-year-old percussionist and Gateway High School Junior Gian Velásquez, who lives on the cusp of the Tenderloin and SOMA, and has been taking lessons and performing in groups at CMC since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CMC student percussionist Gian Velásquez performing at a CMC summer program in the Mission in July 2021. \u003ccite>(Ana Velásquez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being a low-income youth resident in public housing, most of the time, thinking about affordability is a very big aspect of my everyday life,” says Velásquez. “CMC is a blessing because I am able to just go there and receive a top quality music education for free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velásquez says he hopes to become a professional musician someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, CMC is opportunity,” he says. “It’s definitely a perfect breeding ground for for a young musician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Citywide and Neighborhood Impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CMC’s impact can be felt across the city, as well as right in the Mission neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-768x566.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CMC campus today. The nonprofit has been in this location for 100 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Community Music Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Community Music Center is truly a local treasure that has taught countless children and adults how to develop their musical talents for a century,” said San Francisco director of cultural affairs Ralph Remington in an email to KQED. “The expansion project will bring added vibrancy to its Capp Street location in the Mission District. Even after 100 years, CMC remains true to its mission: making music accessible to anyone with a desire to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CMC is a strong partner. Our wide-ranging work together has included instrumental and vocal music programs for very young children and the young at heart,” said Mission Neighborhood Center chief operating officer José Rodríguez in an email, adding the collaboration between the two organizations goes back 35 years. “This expansion represents an opportunity to increase affordable access to music and music lessons to our communities in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A groundbreaking for the Community Music Center, with students and faculty from the Children’s Chorus, Mission District Young Musicians Program, Mission District Older Adult Choirs, and members of the SFUSD Mariachi Program, takes place Wednesday, Feb. 16, from 2pm–3pm. \u003ca href=\"https://sfcmc.org/#event%7Cbreaking-ground-on-a-new-century%7C1329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://sfcmc.org/#event|breaking-ground-on-a-new-century|1329\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Roots that Go Back More Than A Century\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roots of CMC extend back over a century to 1912, to the founding of the music department at the Dolores Street Girl’s Club settlement house. Violinist and nurse Gertrude Field moved to San Francisco from New York to become its first director. She went on to establish CMC as an independent organization—then called Community Music School—in November 1921, in its current location at 544 Capp Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-800x1111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1111\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-800x1111.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-1020x1417.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-160x222.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-768x1067.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-1106x1536.jpg 1106w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-1474x2048.jpg 1474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53725_Copy-of-Gertrude-Field.facing-camera-qut-scaled.jpg 1843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CMC Founding Director Gertude Field. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Community Music Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The students back then were primarily immigrant students in the settlement house tradition. So for them, CMC was a place to find community and to do the things that were common in settlement houses,” says Steinberg. “It was a place to practice English, a place to make music, a place to do crafts or do job training.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CMC Today\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community-building and music-making aspects of that original mission are still very much at the heart of CMC’s work today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit provides solo and group lessons in a range of musical styles such as Chinese and Western classical, Latin and Jazz. There’s a Black Music Studies program, summer camps, a choir for older adults, and choir for people who self-identify as transgender, intersex, or gender-queer, among many other offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of the center’s students are under 18, come from low-income households and study for free or at a reduced cost. Nearly half of them identify as people of color. According to Steinberg, CMC gave out just over $2.9 million in direct financial aid last year.\u003cem> \u003c/em>Among the recipients is 17-year-old percussionist and Gateway High School Junior Gian Velásquez, who lives on the cusp of the Tenderloin and SOMA, and has been taking lessons and performing in groups at CMC since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909455\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53722_Gian-Velasquez-qut.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CMC student percussionist Gian Velásquez performing at a CMC summer program in the Mission in July 2021. \u003ccite>(Ana Velásquez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being a low-income youth resident in public housing, most of the time, thinking about affordability is a very big aspect of my everyday life,” says Velásquez. “CMC is a blessing because I am able to just go there and receive a top quality music education for free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Velásquez says he hopes to become a professional musician someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, CMC is opportunity,” he says. “It’s definitely a perfect breeding ground for for a young musician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Citywide and Neighborhood Impact\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CMC’s impact can be felt across the city, as well as right in the Mission neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut-768x566.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/RS53724_552_544_best_evastoyanov37345-qut.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CMC campus today. The nonprofit has been in this location for 100 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Community Music Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco Community Music Center is truly a local treasure that has taught countless children and adults how to develop their musical talents for a century,” said San Francisco director of cultural affairs Ralph Remington in an email to KQED. “The expansion project will bring added vibrancy to its Capp Street location in the Mission District. Even after 100 years, CMC remains true to its mission: making music accessible to anyone with a desire to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CMC is a strong partner. Our wide-ranging work together has included instrumental and vocal music programs for very young children and the young at heart,” said Mission Neighborhood Center chief operating officer José Rodríguez in an email, adding the collaboration between the two organizations goes back 35 years. “This expansion represents an opportunity to increase affordable access to music and music lessons to our communities in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A groundbreaking for the Community Music Center, with students and faculty from the Children’s Chorus, Mission District Young Musicians Program, Mission District Older Adult Choirs, and members of the SFUSD Mariachi Program, takes place Wednesday, Feb. 16, from 2pm–3pm. \u003ca href=\"https://sfcmc.org/#event%7Cbreaking-ground-on-a-new-century%7C1329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://sfcmc.org/#event|breaking-ground-on-a-new-century|1329\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jonathan-bingham.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Bingham\u003c/a> had just finished his work shift at an Apple Store in May 2021 when he saw the voicemail. He had been offered a commission as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jonathan-bingham.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emerging Black Composers Project\u003c/a>. Shocked, he went into the store’s changing area and stared at his reflection in the mirror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bingham had worked at the Apple Store since his days as a graduate student at New York University. After graduating in 2016, he juggled a full-time position there with a burgeoning composing career that included residencies at the Arapahoe Philharmonic and Boulder Symphony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 7am to 4pm, Bingham helped people fix their iPhones. From 5pm to around 10pm, he composed. And then he would do it all over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a finalist for the \u003ca href=\"https://sfcm.edu/emerging-black-composers-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emerging Black Composers Project\u003c/a>, or EBCP, has provided Bingham with an opportunity to start a new chapter in his life as a full-time composer. Upon receiving the news, he put in his two week’s notice and moved from New Jersey to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bingham had applied to the EBCP without giving much thought as to whether or not he could win. He was simply hoping his work would pass before the eyes—and ears—of the renowned composers and conductors on the judging panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, a 10-year partnership between the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and San Francisco Symphony, aims to spotlight existing talent and nurture the next generation of Black composers in the U.S. While the EBCP doesn’t have the word “competition” in its name, it functions as one. The project has sparked a conversation about how much further classical music has to go to become truly equitable, and whether competitions are an effective tool to promote diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13909303 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/DISRUPTOR_CONDUCTOR_2019_08_20_FINAL_MASTER00_09_25_23Still010.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser conducts a concert at the San Francisco Symphony.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/DISRUPTOR_CONDUCTOR_2019_08_20_FINAL_MASTER00_09_25_23Still010.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/DISRUPTOR_CONDUCTOR_2019_08_20_FINAL_MASTER00_09_25_23Still010-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/DISRUPTOR_CONDUCTOR_2019_08_20_FINAL_MASTER00_09_25_23Still010-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, conductor of engagement and education at the San Francisco Symphony, in a still from the film ‘Disruptor Conductor.’ \u003ccite>(San Francisco Symphony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Facing classical music’s whiteness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Historically, composers of color have had a much harder time getting their music performed and workshopped,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.danielbartholomewpoyser.com/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser\u003c/a>, chair of the EBCP selection committee and the San Francisco Symphony’s resident conductor of engagement and education. “[The] project is an attempt to address some of that, and to provide points of access to young people from a community that has often previously been denied access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Symphony launched the EBCP in the aftermath of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, which helped set off a racial reckoning within arts organizations nationwide. Major orchestras finally began to grapple with an ongoing problem: their failure to truly reflect their surrounding communities, both in concert programs and on stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an assumption that a composer is someone who is of European descent and usually a male,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.trevorweston.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Weston\u003c/a>, who received the first-place EBCP commission in 2021. “Visibility is important so that people understand that this tradition has always included people of different backgrounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Trevor-Weston-portrait_photo-by-Ayano-Hisa-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Weston is a music professor at Drew University and the first-place winner of the 2021 Emerging Black Composers Project. \u003ccite>(Ayano-Hisa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weston received a $15,000 commission to compose a new work for the San Francisco Symphony, a rare opportunity for a contemporary composer. Due to the applicant pool’s strength, the selection committee named three additional finalists—Bingham, \u003ca href=\"http://www.shawnokpebholo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shawn Okpebholo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sumitonooka.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sumi Tonooka\u003c/a>. Each received an $8,000 commission to compose a work for the National Brass Ensemble, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Symphony\u003c/a> and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, respectively. The competition is \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XQT6eKgEt3SwAQbdAIzLy-hzmJuoidFFlpZkzwB-BRc/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbzx=-6884167788446881650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accepting applications for its next cohort\u003c/a> through Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four winners have also been receiving mentorship from San Francisco Symphony Music Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.esapekkasalonen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Esa-Pekka Salonen\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://www.edwinoutwater.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edwin Outwater\u003c/a>, the music director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and Bartholomew-Poyser. (Bartholomew-Poyser replaced Michael Morgan, the beloved Oakland Symphony conductor—and one of the few Black music directors at a major orchestra—\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901635/michael-morgan-visionary-oakland-symphony-conductor-dies-at-age-63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who died last year\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EBCP’s application guidelines encourage a degree in music performance, composition or “equivalent experience.” Such requirements can narrow down the pool of applicants to those who have taken more traditional career paths, says \u003ca href=\"https://tcarlisroberts.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T. Carlis Roberts\u003c/a>, a composer and former assistant professor of music at UC Berkeley. (Indeed, most of 2021’s winners aren’t exactly “emerging” artists. With the exception of Bingham, all are 40 or older and recognized in their field. The 2022 competition focuses on composers under 35.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Sumi-Tonooka-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumi Tonooka, a jazz composer with 30 years of experience creating film scores, won second prize at the Emerging Black Composers Project in 2021. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Symphony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that setting it up where there is this call, a narrow funnel for a couple people to get in on the program, is a setup for tokenization, versus really creating greater access on a broader scale,” says Roberts, who identifies as Black and mixed race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts says organizations that want to create equity, access and diversity should think about just what measures they are willing to take. “Does it mean having brown faces within the same frameworks and roles that have existed?” Roberts says. “Or do you really create a new type of musical conversation?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Roberts, the answer seems to be the latter. To truly be diverse, he says, organizations should help lead the way in creating a “new terrain” that no longer exclusively centers Western art music. Ultimately, Roberts hopes to see a restructuring of the entire performing arts industry. Often, large, majority white-led arts organizations receive multi-million dollar endowments while community groups that primarily serve communities of color scramble for limited funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartholomew-Poyser’s approach is slightly different. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about ways to increase diversity in the arts, and has crafted a list of questions for arts organizations to ask themselves when considering its equity work. He calls it the “perfect fifths of diversity,” and it consists of five questions: Who is playing? Whose work is being played? Who’s listening? Who’s deciding? How are people treating each other as they do all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' citation='The ‘perfect fifths of diversity,’ according to Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser']Who is playing? Whose work is being played? Who’s listening? Who’s deciding? How are people treating each other as they do all of this?[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EBCP mostly focuses on one: whose music is being performed. And Bartholomew-Poyser believes that, down the line, projects that seek to increase the number of Black composers will have a ripple effect on the entire classical music industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe having these composers highlighted will result in a more diverse audience,” Bartholomew-Poyser says. “But that will be eventually. Eventually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to respond to concerns about the potential tokenization of contestants, Edwin Outwater of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music acknowledged there are “valid concerns,” and noted that the EBCP is indeed open to composers who don’t come from straightforwardly classical music backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In any competition, there are always boundaries that have to be drawn in the application process,” Outwater says. “If someone wins and is incredibly talented and does not have the hugest orchestral background per se, we’re going to provide support if that person really wants to write an orchestral piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first year of the competition, the selection committee reviewed nearly 100 applications, including some from singer-songwriters, jazz composers and composers of church music, he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/1819concerts_1214soundbox_stefancohen_092.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/1819concerts_1214soundbox_stefancohen_092.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/1819concerts_1214soundbox_stefancohen_092-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/1819concerts_1214soundbox_stefancohen_092-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwin Outwater conducts a concert for the San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox series. \u003ccite>(Stefan Cohen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of last year’s winners indeed bring influences from different musical backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonooka, for example, is a jazz composer and pianist with 30 years of experience writing film scores, including for the Academy Award-nominated 1988 short \u003cem>Family Gathering\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okpebholo attributes most of his early musical education to the Salvation Army church. He grew up living in government housing in Lexington, Kentucky, and, though his mother could not afford private lessons, he joined a youth brass band. Soon, he started taking free music lessons with the composer \u003ca href=\"http://www.ussmusicandarts.org/james-curnow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Curnow\u003c/a>. (Originally, they were meant to be euphonium lessons, but Curnow began teaching him to compose when he was 14 years old.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Composition is very collaborative,” says Okpebholo, now a professor of composition and music theory at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. “You need people to perform your music. … The end goal of working with people, or seeing people perform what you have created, was intriguing for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Shawn-Okpebholo-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"1109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Shawn-Okpebholo-1.jpeg 760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Shawn-Okpebholo-1-160x233.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Okpebholo is a music theory and composition professor at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. He won second prize in the 2021 Emerging Black Composers Project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Shawn Okpebholo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bingham echoed Okpebholo’s sentiments. For a composer, getting your music heard is just as important as writing the piece, he says. Nowadays, there are different ways to do this—posting on social media, organizing a concert of your own music or reaching out to record labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competitions like the EBCP directly accomplish what these other methods don’t. That is, they provide an opportunity to deliver your work straight to the hands of famous composers including \u003ca href=\"https://www.earbox.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Adams\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/330/Anthony-Davis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Davis\u003c/a>, who are both on the selection committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I had to do was hit a submit button,” Bingham adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recognizing Black talent that’s already here\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Bingham, what really distinguished the competition from others of its kind was the opportunity to receive mentorship from a composer on the committee, as well as have access to the conservatory’s pool of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that there was more gravity,” he says. “I’m only two months in, but so far I really do feel like I made the right decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in San Francisco has enabled Bingham to more fully utilize the resources offered—including practice spaces and meetings with faculty, San Francisco Symphony collaborators and donors. Additionally, the conservatory has offered access to recording studios and musicians for \u003ca href=\"https://www.coolstoryrecords.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cool Story Records\u003c/a>, a recording project Bingham created to highlight the work of Howard University composers such as Mark Fax, whose compositions were rescued from a trash bin after a custodian cleaned out Fax’s office following his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fax is by no means the only Black composer whose work the industry has overlooked. Classical music’s whiteness is apparent—not just in the glossy program books in large concert halls, but also within the pages of the textbooks music students study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weston, who works as a music professor at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, has spent decades teaching music theory. Seldom has he come across musical examples composed by Black or female composers in theory textbooks. This has in turn contributed to a narrative of classical music history that excludes the existence of minority and female composers, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' citation='Trevor Weston']‘Without knowing the history, it’s easy for anyone … to guess that classical music isn’t something that is really connected to [the Black] community.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without knowing the history, it’s easy for anyone … to guess that classical music isn’t something that is really connected to [the Black] community,” says Weston, “There were people of African descent in the United States performing classical music before what we consider modern gospel was created. Many different communities have contributed to what we consider to be concert music or classical music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some arts organizations have made incremental changes to respond to this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 31, the San Francisco Symphony released an hour-long educational video, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/EducationCommunity/Musical-Heroes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musical Heroes: Stories of African American Composers\u003c/a>,” which explores the lives, work and impact of Florence Price, William Grant Still and George Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The videos, hosted by Bartholomew-Poyser, and corresponding study guides were created to elevate these composers’ music and spark important classroom conversations on topics like the Chicago Black Renaissance and Jim Crow legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announced Jan. 5 that it was partnering with the San Francisco Ballet to create \u003ca href=\"https://sfcm.edu/newsroom/san-francisco-conservatory-music-and-san-francisco-ballet-partner-new-fellowship-advance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two fellowship positions for Black string players\u003c/a>, offering full-ride scholarships for the conservatory’s professional studies certificate in instrumental performance, performance opportunities with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and additional support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The existence of these efforts at major arts organizations suggests a shift away from the more passive attitudes they held in previous decades. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, a 10-year partnership between the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and San Francisco Symphony, aims to spotlight existing talent and nurture the next generation of Black composers in the U.S. While the EBCP doesn’t have the word “competition” in its name, it functions as one. The project has sparked a conversation about how much further classical music has to go to become truly equitable, and whether competitions are an effective tool to promote diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909303\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13909303 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/DISRUPTOR_CONDUCTOR_2019_08_20_FINAL_MASTER00_09_25_23Still010.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser conducts a concert at the San Francisco Symphony.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/DISRUPTOR_CONDUCTOR_2019_08_20_FINAL_MASTER00_09_25_23Still010.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/DISRUPTOR_CONDUCTOR_2019_08_20_FINAL_MASTER00_09_25_23Still010-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/DISRUPTOR_CONDUCTOR_2019_08_20_FINAL_MASTER00_09_25_23Still010-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, conductor of engagement and education at the San Francisco Symphony, in a still from the film ‘Disruptor Conductor.’ \u003ccite>(San Francisco Symphony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Facing classical music’s whiteness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Historically, composers of color have had a much harder time getting their music performed and workshopped,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.danielbartholomewpoyser.com/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser\u003c/a>, chair of the EBCP selection committee and the San Francisco Symphony’s resident conductor of engagement and education. “[The] project is an attempt to address some of that, and to provide points of access to young people from a community that has often previously been denied access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Symphony launched the EBCP in the aftermath of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, which helped set off a racial reckoning within arts organizations nationwide. Major orchestras finally began to grapple with an ongoing problem: their failure to truly reflect their surrounding communities, both in concert programs and on stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an assumption that a composer is someone who is of European descent and usually a male,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.trevorweston.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Weston\u003c/a>, who received the first-place EBCP commission in 2021. “Visibility is important so that people understand that this tradition has always included people of different backgrounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Trevor-Weston-portrait_photo-by-Ayano-Hisa-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Weston is a music professor at Drew University and the first-place winner of the 2021 Emerging Black Composers Project. \u003ccite>(Ayano-Hisa)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weston received a $15,000 commission to compose a new work for the San Francisco Symphony, a rare opportunity for a contemporary composer. Due to the applicant pool’s strength, the selection committee named three additional finalists—Bingham, \u003ca href=\"http://www.shawnokpebholo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shawn Okpebholo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sumitonooka.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sumi Tonooka\u003c/a>. Each received an $8,000 commission to compose a work for the National Brass Ensemble, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Symphony\u003c/a> and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, respectively. The competition is \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XQT6eKgEt3SwAQbdAIzLy-hzmJuoidFFlpZkzwB-BRc/viewform?edit_requested=true&fbzx=-6884167788446881650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accepting applications for its next cohort\u003c/a> through Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four winners have also been receiving mentorship from San Francisco Symphony Music Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.esapekkasalonen.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Esa-Pekka Salonen\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://www.edwinoutwater.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edwin Outwater\u003c/a>, the music director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and Bartholomew-Poyser. (Bartholomew-Poyser replaced Michael Morgan, the beloved Oakland Symphony conductor—and one of the few Black music directors at a major orchestra—\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901635/michael-morgan-visionary-oakland-symphony-conductor-dies-at-age-63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who died last year\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EBCP’s application guidelines encourage a degree in music performance, composition or “equivalent experience.” Such requirements can narrow down the pool of applicants to those who have taken more traditional career paths, says \u003ca href=\"https://tcarlisroberts.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T. Carlis Roberts\u003c/a>, a composer and former assistant professor of music at UC Berkeley. (Indeed, most of 2021’s winners aren’t exactly “emerging” artists. With the exception of Bingham, all are 40 or older and recognized in their field. 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To truly be diverse, he says, organizations should help lead the way in creating a “new terrain” that no longer exclusively centers Western art music. Ultimately, Roberts hopes to see a restructuring of the entire performing arts industry. Often, large, majority white-led arts organizations receive multi-million dollar endowments while community groups that primarily serve communities of color scramble for limited funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartholomew-Poyser’s approach is slightly different. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about ways to increase diversity in the arts, and has crafted a list of questions for arts organizations to ask themselves when considering its equity work. He calls it the “perfect fifths of diversity,” and it consists of five questions: Who is playing? Whose work is being played? Who’s listening? Who’s deciding? How are people treating each other as they do all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Eventually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to respond to concerns about the potential tokenization of contestants, Edwin Outwater of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music acknowledged there are “valid concerns,” and noted that the EBCP is indeed open to composers who don’t come from straightforwardly classical music backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In any competition, there are always boundaries that have to be drawn in the application process,” Outwater says. “If someone wins and is incredibly talented and does not have the hugest orchestral background per se, we’re going to provide support if that person really wants to write an orchestral piece.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the first year of the competition, the selection committee reviewed nearly 100 applications, including some from singer-songwriters, jazz composers and composers of church music, he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909304\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/1819concerts_1214soundbox_stefancohen_092.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/1819concerts_1214soundbox_stefancohen_092.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/1819concerts_1214soundbox_stefancohen_092-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/1819concerts_1214soundbox_stefancohen_092-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwin Outwater conducts a concert for the San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox series. \u003ccite>(Stefan Cohen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of last year’s winners indeed bring influences from different musical backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonooka, for example, is a jazz composer and pianist with 30 years of experience writing film scores, including for the Academy Award-nominated 1988 short \u003cem>Family Gathering\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okpebholo attributes most of his early musical education to the Salvation Army church. He grew up living in government housing in Lexington, Kentucky, and, though his mother could not afford private lessons, he joined a youth brass band. Soon, he started taking free music lessons with the composer \u003ca href=\"http://www.ussmusicandarts.org/james-curnow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Curnow\u003c/a>. (Originally, they were meant to be euphonium lessons, but Curnow began teaching him to compose when he was 14 years old.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Composition is very collaborative,” says Okpebholo, now a professor of composition and music theory at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. “You need people to perform your music. … The end goal of working with people, or seeing people perform what you have created, was intriguing for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Shawn-Okpebholo-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"1109\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Shawn-Okpebholo-1.jpeg 760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Shawn-Okpebholo-1-160x233.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Okpebholo is a music theory and composition professor at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. He won second prize in the 2021 Emerging Black Composers Project. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Shawn Okpebholo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bingham echoed Okpebholo’s sentiments. For a composer, getting your music heard is just as important as writing the piece, he says. Nowadays, there are different ways to do this—posting on social media, organizing a concert of your own music or reaching out to record labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competitions like the EBCP directly accomplish what these other methods don’t. That is, they provide an opportunity to deliver your work straight to the hands of famous composers including \u003ca href=\"https://www.earbox.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Adams\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/330/Anthony-Davis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Davis\u003c/a>, who are both on the selection committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I had to do was hit a submit button,” Bingham adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recognizing Black talent that’s already here\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Bingham, what really distinguished the competition from others of its kind was the opportunity to receive mentorship from a composer on the committee, as well as have access to the conservatory’s pool of resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that there was more gravity,” he says. “I’m only two months in, but so far I really do feel like I made the right decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in San Francisco has enabled Bingham to more fully utilize the resources offered—including practice spaces and meetings with faculty, San Francisco Symphony collaborators and donors. Additionally, the conservatory has offered access to recording studios and musicians for \u003ca href=\"https://www.coolstoryrecords.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cool Story Records\u003c/a>, a recording project Bingham created to highlight the work of Howard University composers such as Mark Fax, whose compositions were rescued from a trash bin after a custodian cleaned out Fax’s office following his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fax is by no means the only Black composer whose work the industry has overlooked. Classical music’s whiteness is apparent—not just in the glossy program books in large concert halls, but also within the pages of the textbooks music students study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weston, who works as a music professor at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, has spent decades teaching music theory. Seldom has he come across musical examples composed by Black or female composers in theory textbooks. This has in turn contributed to a narrative of classical music history that excludes the existence of minority and female composers, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a Wednesday night in San Francisco, and I’m sitting in pitch-black darkness. In one minute, I’m sailing on the sea, and the next minute I’m in an airplane with loose, squeaky wings. Eventually I’m floating through a glass factory. Then the lights come up, and I’m back in a futuristic-looking room on Bush Street, snapped out of my reverie. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its opening here in 1975, this room, \u003ca href=\"https://www.audium.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Audium\u003c/a>, has been one of San Francisco’s most adventurous first dates. Billing itself as a “theater of sound,” Audium hosts attendees in a circle and pipes experimental music, noises, and soundscapes out of the walls, floor and ceiling in total darkness. Call it surround-sound gone berserk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, in the words of Audium’s director David Shaff: “There’s 176 speakers, we turn the lights out, you listen for an hour, and hopefully it takes you somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Room_-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909229\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Room_-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Room_-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Room_-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Room_-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Room_-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Room_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The listening room at Audium, seen from the control booth, is outfitted with 176 speakers. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For over 50 years (the venue’s first location opened in 1967), the sound composition at Audium was programmed solely by co-founder Stan Shaff. In 2018, his son David began sharing the control booth. Now, Audium’s first-ever residency program is providing the Bay Area’s deep listeners with new work by three young Bay Area artists: Victoria Shen, Alexa Burrell, and Noah Berrie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the final rehearsal for \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.audium.org/new-voices/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New Voices\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is any indication, they’ve brought a fresh approach and truly imagined Audium as, in the words of Shaff, a “composable being” unto itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shen’s \u003cem>Terpsichore\u003c/em> is an homage to Audium, mixing her own analog background as a builder of modular synthesizers and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/evicshen/status/1403368102742532096\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">turntable manipulator\u003c/a> with the space’s new digital setup. \u003cem>A(void Fire)\u003c/em> by Alexa Burrell is an “Afro-surrealist techno-horror fairytale” influenced by surviving the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire, and the 2017 wildfires that burned down her mother’s house. Noah Berrie’s \u003cem>Organ Music\u003c/em> draws on voice, skin textures and other “bodily things,” with a custom-built instrument to augment the soundscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the three had visited Audium before applying to the residency, but all show a deep respect for the venue. Burrell calls it a “deeply emotional and spiritual” experience to sit in darkness and “sink into listening and hearing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.DavidSheff-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909227\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.DavidSheff-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.DavidSheff-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.DavidSheff-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.DavidSheff-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.DavidSheff-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.DavidSheff.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Shaff sits at Audium’s master control. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shaff tells me that he was intentionally looking for artists who work outside of his father’s magnetic-tape, musique-concrète style; “people who can have a conversation with this place, and figure out what works and what doesn’t,’ he says. “That was the conversation that Dad was having for 50 years, but it was just one conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elder Shaff, now 92 and still involved in a consulting capacity, made Audium a destination. Musicians like Pierre Henry and members of the Grateful Dead and the Sun Ra Arkestra would come to marinate within its walls. Engineers from Dolby, Disney and Meyer Sound also visited, drawing on its pioneering approach to inform their own digital sound advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Audium itself used the downtime to switch over to digital. The sound is crisp and clean now out of each speaker, Shaff says, instead of being “smudged” into certain areas of the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while there may be longtime Audium fans dismayed that the old Ampex reel-to-reel tape console now sits unused, and the old analog board with its knobs and switches is dismantled and perched on its side, the digital shift befits Audium’s spirit of exploration and newness. (It doesn’t seem to have changed Audium’s core mission, either. On a butcher-paper brainstorm for Audium’s future hanging on the office wall, under a section titled “Values,” I notice that someone’s written, “Money: OK, if there is intent. Art + Listening = #1.”) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Tape_.2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Tape_.2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Tape_.2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Tape_.2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Tape_.2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Tape_.2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Audium.Tape_.2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old Ampex tape console at Audium. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shaff plans to make residencies with Bay Area artists an annual tradition—along with inviting others in for a month at a time, like Amy X Neuburg’s takeover of the space this coming July. 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Musicians like Pierre Henry and members of the Grateful Dead and the Sun Ra Arkestra would come to marinate within its walls. Engineers from Dolby, Disney and Meyer Sound also visited, drawing on its pioneering approach to inform their own digital sound advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, Audium itself used the downtime to switch over to digital. The sound is crisp and clean now out of each speaker, Shaff says, instead of being “smudged” into certain areas of the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while there may be longtime Audium fans dismayed that the old Ampex reel-to-reel tape console now sits unused, and the old analog board with its knobs and switches is dismantled and perched on its side, the digital shift befits Audium’s spirit of exploration and newness. (It doesn’t seem to have changed Audium’s core mission, either. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.main_.jpg\" alt=\"Bjork, in a dress of white puff balls, dances in front of a curtain of ribbon\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.main_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.main_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.main_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.main_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.main_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.main_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Björk’s elaborate production ‘Cornucopia’ brought the future of the planet in stark relief n Friday night at the Chase Center. \u003ccite>(Santiago Felipe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I would give anything to go back in time and see Duke Ellington. Even in the later years, after famous members of his orchestra members had left. Even if he weren’t performing any hits at all. I would love to see Duke Ellington because everything Ellington played contained his distinct, singular vision. There’s even a term for it: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ellingtonia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ellingtonia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought of Duke Ellington on Friday night while watching Björk’s \u003cem>Cornucopia\u003c/em> at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Across the 100-minute production, she played no “hits,” and just two songs from the 1990s, the decade that the general public (and Billboard charts) most associate with her imaginative videos and singles. Instead, what transpired onstage was something better: \u003cem>Cornucopia\u003c/em> is the most expansive, extravagant outgrowth to date of Björk’s intricately honed creative voice. At this point, her output deserves its own descriptor, its own “Ellingtonia,” because there is clearly nobody on the planet who can do what Björk does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman plays a bass flute on stage\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Björk’s seven-piece flute ensemble, Viibra, brought new textures to her material. \u003ccite>(Santiago Felipe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a setlist pulling mostly from the 2017 album \u003cem>Utopia\u003c/em>, the concert is music, fashion, art film, theater and symposium all in one. The songs featured electronics, percussion, harp, the Icelandic flute septet Viibra, and the occasional water bowl. The stage set resembled mushrooms, and the projections alternated between sea coral forms and root systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this sounds like the soundtrack to a nature documentary, well, the show is certainly that, too, although one that’s realistic about the future of the planet if mankind continues on its destructive path. (It \u003ca href=\"https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZpVpiq0tX/bjork-cornucopia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeats on Tuesday, Feb. 8\u003c/a>, at the Chase Center.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cornucopia\u003c/em> opened with a stirring 10-minute invocation by the 18-piece Los Angeles choir \u003ca href=\"https://ourtonality.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tonality\u003c/a>; the text of which drew from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the U.N.’s Climate Action Summit: “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth / How dare you!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bjork and an African American singer on stage, both dressed in white\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Björk performs ‘Blissing Me’ in a duet with serpentwithfeet. \u003ccite>(Santiago Felipe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, \u003cem>Cornucopia\u003c/em> is an extension of \u003cem>Biophilia\u003c/em>, the last tour Björk brought to the Bay Area in 2013 at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond. That show, in the round and narrated by David Attenborough, effused with the wonder of nature and its fragility. That she should return nearly 10 years later with a message more urgent and foreboding is a reminder of how little progress our world leaders have made. Sometimes this manifested in projected messages about the Paris Agreement and the need for a “matriarchal dome” of ecological guardianship; during “Tabula Rasa,” it took the form of Björk singing “Let’s clean up / Break the chain of the fuckups of the fathers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the show’s didacticism (Thunberg appeared again later in the show, in a prerecorded video message), Björk presented it with such joy for life, continuously dancing carefree in an outfit of large bath lily-type adornments, that it didn’t feel like a lecture. While those in the Chase Center’s high-altitude upper deck would have benefitted from live screens projecting these details in some parts, the medium was the message. The imagination required to save the planet, after all, is the same sort required to conceptualize and build a large four-way flute ring, which was lowered around Björk from the ceiling and played by four members of Viibra during “Body Memory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13909065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.vert_-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"Bjork in a feathery dress with decorations looking like flower stamens\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.vert_-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.vert_-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.vert_-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.vert_-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.vert_-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.vert_.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Björk sings one of two encores Friday night at the Chase Center in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Santiago Felipe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for those hoping for older material, the night brought other breathtaking moments: Tonality replicating, a capella, the swelling arrangement of \u003cem>Vespertine\u003c/em>‘s “Hidden Place,” or the voice-and-flute duet of \u003cem>Debut\u003c/em>‘s “Venus as a Boy.” During “Isobel,” so many strands of Björk’s vision were present that I wished, once again, for a term like “Ellingtonia” to serve as shorthand for what I was witnessing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In place of shorthand, let us simply call it Björk, and appreciate it while she’s here.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Even in the later years, after famous members of his orchestra members had left. Even if he weren’t performing any hits at all. I would love to see Duke Ellington because everything Ellington played contained his distinct, singular vision. There’s even a term for it: \u003ca href=\"http://www.ellingtonia.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ellingtonia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought of Duke Ellington on Friday night while watching Björk’s \u003cem>Cornucopia\u003c/em> at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Across the 100-minute production, she played no “hits,” and just two songs from the 1990s, the decade that the general public (and Billboard charts) most associate with her imaginative videos and singles. Instead, what transpired onstage was something better: \u003cem>Cornucopia\u003c/em> is the most expansive, extravagant outgrowth to date of Björk’s intricately honed creative voice. At this point, her output deserves its own descriptor, its own “Ellingtonia,” because there is clearly nobody on the planet who can do what Björk does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman plays a bass flute on stage\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/bjork.flute_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Björk’s seven-piece flute ensemble, Viibra, brought new textures to her material. \u003ccite>(Santiago Felipe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a setlist pulling mostly from the 2017 album \u003cem>Utopia\u003c/em>, the concert is music, fashion, art film, theater and symposium all in one. The songs featured electronics, percussion, harp, the Icelandic flute septet Viibra, and the occasional water bowl. The stage set resembled mushrooms, and the projections alternated between sea coral forms and root systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If this sounds like the soundtrack to a nature documentary, well, the show is certainly that, too, although one that’s realistic about the future of the planet if mankind continues on its destructive path. (It \u003ca href=\"https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZpVpiq0tX/bjork-cornucopia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeats on Tuesday, Feb. 8\u003c/a>, at the Chase Center.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cornucopia\u003c/em> opened with a stirring 10-minute invocation by the 18-piece Los Angeles choir \u003ca href=\"https://ourtonality.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tonality\u003c/a>; the text of which drew from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the U.N.’s Climate Action Summit: “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth / How dare you!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13909069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bjork and an African American singer on stage, both dressed in white\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/Bjork.serpent2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Björk performs ‘Blissing Me’ in a duet with serpentwithfeet. \u003ccite>(Santiago Felipe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, \u003cem>Cornucopia\u003c/em> is an extension of \u003cem>Biophilia\u003c/em>, the last tour Björk brought to the Bay Area in 2013 at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond. That show, in the round and narrated by David Attenborough, effused with the wonder of nature and its fragility. That she should return nearly 10 years later with a message more urgent and foreboding is a reminder of how little progress our world leaders have made. Sometimes this manifested in projected messages about the Paris Agreement and the need for a “matriarchal dome” of ecological guardianship; during “Tabula Rasa,” it took the form of Björk singing “Let’s clean up / Break the chain of the fuckups of the fathers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>An instrumental album about grief might make you imagine listening to calming tones in the dark. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharmi Basu\u003c/a>’s new release as Beast Nest, \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> (\u003ca href=\"https://ratskin.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ratskin Records\u003c/a>), splashes the canvas—no, actually, the wall—with all the strange, contradictory emotional hues that accompany healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basu composed \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> in the years since losing close friends and collaborators in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire, which killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ghostshipmemorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">36 Oakland partygoers\u003c/a>. Billed as a “freak 4 freak, crazy 4 crazy wet blankie,” the album’s six electronic tracks embrace the messiness of grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As danceable beats guide the listener from abstract to accessible terrain, \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> takes us on an emotional ride that opens with the ambient, droning tones of a meditation. Quickly, sci-fi blips and bloops interrupt the connection to what sounds like a dispatch from the spiritual realm. Electronic noise blacks out pretty melodies like a swipe of spray paint. But moments of joy and hope bubble up as whimsical, fuzzy sounds, conjuring the textures of Koosh balls and cotton candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compositions flow like the ups and downs that Basu went through in the months and years that followed the tragedy. “There was so much cuckoo energy going on, like any time you entered a space the grief was so thick you could touch it,” says Basu, who has been intimately involved in the Bay Area’s music scene for years as a performer, educator and executive director of Ratskin Records. Their work (notably their “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/decolonizing-sound-workshop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Decolonizing Sound\u003c/a>” workshop) has appeared in major museums and universities, but they’ve stayed firmly rooted in the D.I.Y. underground scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1141726104/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ghost Ship, Basu’s way of coping with so much loss was to throw themself into organizing mutual aid efforts and fundraisers for the fire survivors, victims’ loved ones and the displaced warehouse tenants. They attended funerals and vigils, and spoke out in the media about how the Bay Area’s unaffordable housing market forces artists to live and perform in unsafe conditions. And they showed up for peers by attending and playing as many shows as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know how to be alone during that time,” Basu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other people didn’t either, and powerful moments of togetherness came with inevitable tensions. Many people’s mental health suffered. “There were just so many different hard emotions that were bumping up against each other,” Basu says, calling the time “chaotic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have a sense of humor about it all on \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, which contains song titles like “Ur Doing Great Sweaty” and “Kim, People are Dying,” both references to \u003ca href=\"https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youre-doing-amazing-sweetie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kardashian memes\u003c/a> (the socialite family’s reality show was Basu’s comfort viewing during the most isolating moments of the pandemic).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the levity, other tracks reveal the enormity of the artist’s loss. One simply titled “Jsun” pays tribute to musician and illustrator \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12479036/jason-jsun-mccarty-boundary-pushing-sound-artist-and-illustrator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jsun McCarty\u003c/a>. He and Basu dated for two years while Basu was getting their MFA in electronic music at Mills College. Jsun was also close friends, musical collaborators and roommates with Ratskin Records co-founder Mike Daddona, and Basu practically lived at their house during the relationship. [aside postid='arts_13816362']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just supported me so intensely around that time, especially around my music stuff in a way I really hadn’t had anyone do before,” Basu says. On the track named in his honor, there’s a weighty sadness. A sparse melody becomes increasingly abstract until glitchy static takes over and eventually quiets down. It’s as if the track is a portal to what might lie beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ghost Ship and the COVID-19 pandemic—and with the ever-increasing cost of living—Oakland’s experimental, underground arts scene is definitely still here. But the free-spirited sense of possibility has given way to tough realities. “It’s difficult to keep in touch with each other,” says Basu. “And I think it’s like, we still don’t know how to hold each other in collective grief as well as we would like to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13908924\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of electronic musician Sharmi Basu with their dog Beni at the Oakland rose garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sharmi2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharmi Basu and their dog, Beni. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an effort to facilitate better communication, Basu’s vinyl release of \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i> comes with a workbook with 50 questions about conflict and repair. The offering came out of their ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/self-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>Self Investigations\u003c/i>\u003c/a> project, which has included interactive video installations, performance art pieces and workshops. “It first came out of thinking a lot about accountability and the ways that accountability processes fail within arts communities, within radical organizing communities,” says Basu, who is a trained conflict mediator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to learn how to work through shit together if we’re going to actually be able to organize, resist and have joy,” the artist explains. In their artist statement for \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, they thank the people that stuck by them despite some “not cute behavior” and listened when Basu “call[ed] them out on the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up next, Basu has a residency at \u003ca href=\"https://www.temescalartcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Temescal Art Center\u003c/a> starting in May, where they’ll continue their \u003ci>Self Investigations\u003c/i> project with an interactive installation that will cocoon visitors in a soothing environment and invite them to answer the self-reflection prompts from the workbook. (One light piece is activated by squeezing a teddy bear.) [aside postid='arts_13881725']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, related to the trauma-informed thinking around \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, the core Ratskin Records team of Basu, Daddona and Tieraney Carter are working on a virtual venue called \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharmi.info/news-wav/2021/12/2/eggwater-holosuites-preview-of-mixed-reality-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ratskin Records Holosuites\u003c/a>, while deepening their understanding of accessibility and disability justice activism. (A preview of Holosuites was featured in a \u003ca href=\"https://soex.org/projects-exhibitions/interconnected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">juried group show last fall\u003c/a> at the San Francisco gallery Southern Exposure, where Basu works as an administrator by day.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Virtual shows might have looked like they would fall out of favor when COVID vaccines first became available a year ago. But the unpredictability of the virus has proven that independent artists need to have multiple modes of performing and connecting with audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so many different reasons people can’t go to shows, like accessibility physically if there’s stairs, if the door is too heavy, if the air is too cold—there’s all these things that we don’t think about. And then like, if your abusive ex is out at the show, or you work until 9pm or 10pm, or you have kids at home,” they explain. [aside postid='arts_13893843']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that desire to create more nourishing and accepting spaces that has made Basu’s work so impactful. And if the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that alternative platforms can model how to best serve the physical and mental health needs of both audiences and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ci>Sicko\u003c/i>, Basu doesn’t come to us fully healed, with some profound insight that makes meaning out of all this senseless tragedy. But in opening up their scars, they let their listeners know that they’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ostensibly, \u003cem>I Am a Cliché\u003c/em> is a profile of British punk icon Poly Styrene, who founded and fronted X-Ray Spex between 1976 and ’79. But this 95-minute documentary, directed by Poly’s daughter \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/celestabella/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celeste Bell-Dos Santos\u003c/a> and filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7098521/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Sng\u003c/a>, proves to be much, much more than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13902953']\u003cem>Cliché\u003c/em> unpacks a lot. It’s about art on the margins. It’s about the race and gender barriers that have historically policed popular culture. It’s about mental illness, the stigma it carries, and society’s reluctance to deal with it. It’s about dysfunctional families and finding love. 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And unrelenting, sexist scrutiny of her body and image in the music press made her worry she wasn’t good enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13852873']“She felt like journalists were celebrating her by insinuating that she was unattractive and overweight,” Celeste remembers. “[They were] totally not getting what she was trying to achieve by choosing not to overexpose her voluptuous form on stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poly’s situation was further destabilized by the fact that she was bipolar but initially misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. All of those elements together made the chaos and propulsion of touring particularly difficult for her. This became very apparent in 1977 when X-Ray Spex spent time in New York and played the legendary punk venue CBGB. 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