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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I never had the chance to talk with Watts about the very recent changes in our field — the long-overdue appreciation of Black composers; some progress, finally, toward diversity in American orchestras, opera houses and concert halls. I hope it made him happy to witness those developments. But this I know: Just like me, every single Black and brown musician who is active on those stages today looked to André Watts as a guiding light. He inspired us with his gorgeous artistry, and he allowed us to see ourselves in his world, to hope and dream and work as hard as we could to follow in his footsteps. He led by example, and later in his life he actively mentored the next generation of pianists as a Distinguished Professor of Piano at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He cared about his students on a deeply personal level; he wrote to me some years ago recommending one of them for a young artists program I directed, describing the young man as “an altogether wonderful human being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reflecting on that lineage, I reached out to Bernstein’s children for their memories of the musical relationship that started André’s career. His daughter Jamie Bernstein sent these words:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alexander and I were old enough to remember André Watts’ Young People’s Concerts debut and the vibe our dad communicated on that national broadcast. Something unusual and thrilling was about to happen. We know Watts’ path was full of maddening obstacles, as is likely to happen to just about any person of color in this country. But we’re so glad that he was truly embraced and acknowledged by the world he worked and played in. He raised us all. As we Jewish folks say, may his memory be a blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His memory is not only a blessing, but a legacy. André Watts opened a door of possibility and promise for my generation, and we walk through it gratefully, always careful to leave it wide open behind us for the generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/7d5Fn0V6QqEleEyEXnuhv9?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Remembering+Andr%C3%A9+Watts%2C+the+American+pianist+who+opened+doors+of+possibility+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>They say that jazz is best as a cool, late-night experience, and classical concerts are often a nighttime affair. But don’t let that notion get in the way of enjoying the season where both genres hang a little loose, and let their formal suit buttons out. Here’s a solid list of picks for the club, concert hall and outdoor setting this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13929696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/AndyBrick.GameOn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/AndyBrick.GameOn.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/AndyBrick.GameOn-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/AndyBrick.GameOn-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video game composer Andy Brock conducts ‘Game On!’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Andy Brick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.symphonysanjose.org/season/\">Game On!\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>May 26 and 27\u003cbr>\nSan Jose Center for the Performing Arts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like trap music or TikTok, video game music is a generational divider: younger people who came of age playing \u003cem>Super Mario Bros.\u003c/em> recognize it as high art, and a certain older generation dismisses it as commercial decoration. While not all video game scores rise to the brilliant level of, say, \u003cem>Final Fantasy VII\u003c/em>, there’s enough craft in the canon at this point that symphonic concerts of video game music have become frequent — and popular. In \u003cem>Game On!\u003c/em>, game composer Andy Brick conducts the San Jose Symphony in an evening of music from titles like \u003cem>World of Warcraft, Diablo, Assassin’s Creed, League of Legends, Until Dawn\u003c/em> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Navaye Azadi Ensemble sings of the ‘women, life, freedom’ movement in Iran. \u003ccite>(SFIAF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfiaf.org/2023_navaye_azadi\">Navaye Azadi Ensemble\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 11\u003cbr>\nBrava Theater, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As inspiring as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman,_Life,_Freedom\">Women, Life, Freedom\u003c/a> movement in Iran may be, it’s important to remember that the opposition of the country’s morality police is strong, deadly, and not waning. To keep the movement in the public eye, and to express the issues of women’s rights and democracy through song, the Navaya Azadi Ensemble sings contemporary texts in Farsi, accompanied by violin and piano. The concert is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfiaf.org/\">San Francisco International Arts Festival\u003c/a>, itself a cornucopia of socially conscious performances over an 11-day span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guadalupe Paz and Alfredo Daza in the San Diego Opera world premiere of ‘El ultimo sueño de Frida y Diego.’ \u003ccite>(Karli Cadel / San Diego Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfopera.com/operas/el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego/\">El último sueño de Frida y Diego\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 13–30\u003cbr>\nWar Memorial Opera House, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this summer’s most anticipated new work, the story of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s rollercoaster romance gets a creative treatment by Boonville-based composer Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz. Set three years after Kahlo’s death, and weeks before Rivera’s own, the opera imagines Rivera (Alfredo Daza) pining to see his wife Frida (Daniela Mack) one last time. Since it happens to be Día de los Muertos, his wish becomes an absorbing journey for both of them. With a relatively short run time of just over two hours, consider \u003cem>Frida y Diego\u003c/em> a perfect option for introducing first-timers to the opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10811128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10811128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TerryDavid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TerryDavid.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TerryDavid-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Riley with the Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington at the SFJAZZ Center. \u003ccite>(Evan Neff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://kronosquartet.org/kronos-festival-2023/\">Kronos Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 22–24\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put the classical canon in an air fryer, send it 50 years into the future, and play it at 1.5x speed, and you’d get something close to the atmospheres created by the Kronos Quartet. The Bay Area institution’s annual festival is always thrilling, with guest performers and daring works. This year’s lineup includes pieces by West African singer Angélique Kidjo, Pulitzer winner Henry Threadgill, Bay Area composer Gullermo Galindo, jazz-thrash polyglot Trey Spruance, and even some reliable standbys like Terry Riley (above) and Philip Glass. With Aizuri Quartet, Attacca Quartet and Friction Quartet joining Kronos, check your preconceptions at the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13929699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IsaiahCollier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IsaiahCollier.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IsaiahCollier-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IsaiahCollier-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaiah Collier. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Smith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://blackcatsf.turntabletickets.com/\">Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 22–25\u003cbr>\nThe Black Cat, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever wanted to travel back in time to see John Coltrane recording his landmark album \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few have a deal for you. For the saxophonist’s 2021 album \u003cem>Cosmic Transitions\u003c/em>, he brought his group to the same recording studio where \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> was made, and on John Coltrane’s birthday, no less. This quaint anecdote could have ended there — if the results weren’t so vital and stunning. Live, Collier is always on his game, and in the classic confines of this Tenderloin basement club, his sets are bound to be a transporting experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 660px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13929700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/WillieColon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/WillieColon.jpg 660w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/WillieColon-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Colón. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZ9Pb4EECE/cafe-con-leche-starring-willie-colon\">Willie Colón\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 15\u003cbr>\nShoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Colón’s name is near-synonymous with the New York Salsa renaissance of the early 1970s. In a series of underworld-themed albums on the Fania label, the trombonist, vocalist and bandleader worked with Hector Lavoe, Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades and many others. The Latin music legend headlines this package tour with Los Hermanos Rosario, Hector Acosta, Los Hermanos Flores and Fulanito. Pro tip: For a free concert of New York Latin music without the snarled traffic into and out of the parking lot, the Latin soul legend \u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/joe-bataan_la-dona/\">Joe Bataan plays with Mission District favorite La Doña at Yerba Buena Gardens\u003c/a> on the same day, July 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra performs on stage in the United Kingdom in 2012. \u003ccite>(Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/summer23/sun-ra-arkestra-adventure-into-outer-space/\">Sun Ra Arkestra\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 20–23\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music and mystique of Sun Ra just keep growing, and while Ra himself left this Earth to travel the outer spaceways in 1993, his mission is, thankfully, kept alive by 99-year-old saxophonist and bandleader Marshall Allen. (Note: Allen, 99, is no longer performing on the road with the band, and will not appear at these shows.) Cunningly, the group’s residency is split in half: two nights of Ra’s more borderless, avant-garde music, and two nights of his singular take on big-band swing. Attendees are advised to be ready for a journey — no one who experiences the music of Sun Ra in a live setting leaves unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_-800x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_-800x394.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_-768x378.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tchaikovsky and… Drake?\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2022-23/Hackman-Tchaikovsky-X-Drake\">Tchaikovsky x Drake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 29\u003cbr>\nDavis Symphony Hall, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dude, I don’t know either. The classical establishment is always looking for ways to make classical music more enticing to younger people, and this seems to be its latest attempt: a touring production that blends the symphonies of Tchaikovsky with the half-melodic melodies and incel-adjacent bars of the famous Canadian rapper Drake. For a more local spin on this experiment, San Francisco rap icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=2867\">Andre Nickatina hosts a “reimagining” of his music with a classical ensemble\u003c/a> just one block away from Davies on June 24. Attention, NBA Youngboy and Yo-Yo Ma: your move!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929730\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Ahya.Simone-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Ahya.Simone-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Ahya.Simone-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Ahya.Simone-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Ahya.Simone-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Ahya.Simone.jpg 1298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahya Simone. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://operaparallele.org/expansive/\">Expansive: A Showcase of Transgender and Non-Binary Classical Artists\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 3 and 4\u003cbr>\nStrand Theater, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s first-of-its-kind Transgender District was founded in 2017, and in 2022, it partnered with Opera Parallèle to celebrate trans and nonbinary classical musicians. The series returns in a year that’s seen increased attacks on trans rights, both in distant state legislatures and on San Francisco’s own streets. Performing this year are singer Katherine Goforth, harpist Ahya Simone (above) and mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz. With host Afrika America, expect poignancy, humor and artistry of high order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Patrice-Rushen-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Patrice-Rushen-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Patrice-Rushen-1020x629.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Patrice-Rushen-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Patrice-Rushen-768x474.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Patrice-Rushen.jpg 1332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrice Rushen. \u003ccite>(San Jose Jazz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://summerfest.sanjosejazz.org/\">San Jose Jazz Summer Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 11-13\u003cbr>\nVarious venues, downtown San Jose\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s remarkably common for small festivals to lose their steam and peter out after a couple years. Rare is the festival, like San Jose Summerfest, that just gets bigger and better each year. This year’s fun comes in the form of headliners like bassist extraordinaire Marcus Miller, experimentalists The Bad Plus, Zambian rock band W.I.T.C.H., soulful vocalist Gregory Porter and jazz phenomenon Veronica Swift. Spread out over central San Jose, the festival offers the sublime opportunity to listen to Patrice Rushen (above) on a Sunday afternoon, laying on a blanket in Plaza de César Chávez. Does summertime get much better?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003cem>This story previously stated that San Jose Jazz Summer Fest takes place Aug. 3 and 4. The correct dates are Aug. 11-13. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has also been updated to reflect that Marshall Allen is not performing with the Sun Ra Arkestra in Sam Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>They say that jazz is best as a cool, late-night experience, and classical concerts are often a nighttime affair. But don’t let that notion get in the way of enjoying the season where both genres hang a little loose, and let their formal suit buttons out. Here’s a solid list of picks for the club, concert hall and outdoor setting this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13929696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/AndyBrick.GameOn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/AndyBrick.GameOn.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/AndyBrick.GameOn-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/AndyBrick.GameOn-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Video game composer Andy Brock conducts ‘Game On!’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Andy Brick)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.symphonysanjose.org/season/\">Game On!\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>May 26 and 27\u003cbr>\nSan Jose Center for the Performing Arts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like trap music or TikTok, video game music is a generational divider: younger people who came of age playing \u003cem>Super Mario Bros.\u003c/em> recognize it as high art, and a certain older generation dismisses it as commercial decoration. While not all video game scores rise to the brilliant level of, say, \u003cem>Final Fantasy VII\u003c/em>, there’s enough craft in the canon at this point that symphonic concerts of video game music have become frequent — and popular. In \u003cem>Game On!\u003c/em>, game composer Andy Brick conducts the San Jose Symphony in an evening of music from titles like \u003cem>World of Warcraft, Diablo, Assassin’s Creed, League of Legends, Until Dawn\u003c/em> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/NavayeAzadiEnsemble.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Navaye Azadi Ensemble sings of the ‘women, life, freedom’ movement in Iran. \u003ccite>(SFIAF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfiaf.org/2023_navaye_azadi\">Navaye Azadi Ensemble\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 11\u003cbr>\nBrava Theater, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As inspiring as the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman,_Life,_Freedom\">Women, Life, Freedom\u003c/a> movement in Iran may be, it’s important to remember that the opposition of the country’s morality police is strong, deadly, and not waning. To keep the movement in the public eye, and to express the issues of women’s rights and democracy through song, the Navaya Azadi Ensemble sings contemporary texts in Farsi, accompanied by violin and piano. The concert is part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfiaf.org/\">San Francisco International Arts Festival\u003c/a>, itself a cornucopia of socially conscious performances over an 11-day span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/FridaDiego.CRED_.CarliKadelSDOpera.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guadalupe Paz and Alfredo Daza in the San Diego Opera world premiere of ‘El ultimo sueño de Frida y Diego.’ \u003ccite>(Karli Cadel / San Diego Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfopera.com/operas/el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego/\">El último sueño de Frida y Diego\u003c/a>’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 13–30\u003cbr>\nWar Memorial Opera House, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this summer’s most anticipated new work, the story of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s rollercoaster romance gets a creative treatment by Boonville-based composer Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz. Set three years after Kahlo’s death, and weeks before Rivera’s own, the opera imagines Rivera (Alfredo Daza) pining to see his wife Frida (Daniela Mack) one last time. Since it happens to be Día de los Muertos, his wish becomes an absorbing journey for both of them. With a relatively short run time of just over two hours, consider \u003cem>Frida y Diego\u003c/em> a perfect option for introducing first-timers to the opera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10811128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10811128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TerryDavid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TerryDavid.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/TerryDavid-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Riley with the Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington at the SFJAZZ Center. \u003ccite>(Evan Neff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://kronosquartet.org/kronos-festival-2023/\">Kronos Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 22–24\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put the classical canon in an air fryer, send it 50 years into the future, and play it at 1.5x speed, and you’d get something close to the atmospheres created by the Kronos Quartet. The Bay Area institution’s annual festival is always thrilling, with guest performers and daring works. This year’s lineup includes pieces by West African singer Angélique Kidjo, Pulitzer winner Henry Threadgill, Bay Area composer Gullermo Galindo, jazz-thrash polyglot Trey Spruance, and even some reliable standbys like Terry Riley (above) and Philip Glass. With Aizuri Quartet, Attacca Quartet and Friction Quartet joining Kronos, check your preconceptions at the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13929699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IsaiahCollier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IsaiahCollier.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IsaiahCollier-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/IsaiahCollier-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaiah Collier. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Smith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://blackcatsf.turntabletickets.com/\">Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>June 22–25\u003cbr>\nThe Black Cat, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve ever wanted to travel back in time to see John Coltrane recording his landmark album \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few have a deal for you. For the saxophonist’s 2021 album \u003cem>Cosmic Transitions\u003c/em>, he brought his group to the same recording studio where \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> was made, and on John Coltrane’s birthday, no less. This quaint anecdote could have ended there — if the results weren’t so vital and stunning. Live, Collier is always on his game, and in the classic confines of this Tenderloin basement club, his sets are bound to be a transporting experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 660px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13929700\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/WillieColon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/WillieColon.jpg 660w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/WillieColon-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie Colón. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.livenation.com/event/G5vYZ9Pb4EECE/cafe-con-leche-starring-willie-colon\">Willie Colón\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 15\u003cbr>\nShoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Colón’s name is near-synonymous with the New York Salsa renaissance of the early 1970s. In a series of underworld-themed albums on the Fania label, the trombonist, vocalist and bandleader worked with Hector Lavoe, Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades and many others. The Latin music legend headlines this package tour with Los Hermanos Rosario, Hector Acosta, Los Hermanos Flores and Fulanito. Pro tip: For a free concert of New York Latin music without the snarled traffic into and out of the parking lot, the Latin soul legend \u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/event/joe-bataan_la-dona/\">Joe Bataan plays with Mission District favorite La Doña at Yerba Buena Gardens\u003c/a> on the same day, July 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929728\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Marshall.Allen_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra performs on stage in the United Kingdom in 2012. \u003ccite>(Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/summer23/sun-ra-arkestra-adventure-into-outer-space/\">Sun Ra Arkestra\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 20–23\u003cbr>\nSFJAZZ Center, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The music and mystique of Sun Ra just keep growing, and while Ra himself left this Earth to travel the outer spaceways in 1993, his mission is, thankfully, kept alive by 99-year-old saxophonist and bandleader Marshall Allen. (Note: Allen, 99, is no longer performing on the road with the band, and will not appear at these shows.) Cunningly, the group’s residency is split in half: two nights of Ra’s more borderless, avant-garde music, and two nights of his singular take on big-band swing. Attendees are advised to be ready for a journey — no one who experiences the music of Sun Ra in a live setting leaves unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13929729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13929729\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_-800x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_-800x394.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_-768x378.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/Peter.Drake_.jpg 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tchaikovsky and… Drake?\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2022-23/Hackman-Tchaikovsky-X-Drake\">Tchaikovsky x Drake\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>July 29\u003cbr>\nDavis Symphony Hall, San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dude, I don’t know either. The classical establishment is always looking for ways to make classical music more enticing to younger people, and this seems to be its latest attempt: a touring production that blends the symphonies of Tchaikovsky with the half-melodic melodies and incel-adjacent bars of the famous Canadian rapper Drake. For a more local spin on this experiment, San Francisco rap icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=2867\">Andre Nickatina hosts a “reimagining” of his music with a classical ensemble\u003c/a> just one block away from Davies on June 24. 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"content": "\u003cp>Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette’s France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso violinist and a famous and sought-after composer who wrote string quartets, symphonies and operas. His influence was vast, but he was all but erased from history books because Bologne was also Black, born in 1745 in the French colony of Guadeloupe to a wealthy French plantation owner and an enslaved Senegalese teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the height of his celebrity and renown in France, he even put his name forth to lead the Royal Academy of Music at the Paris Opera. Though qualified for the prestigious post, his appointment was blocked. He would later become a revolutionary and lead an all-Black regiment. Three years after his death in 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte reestablished slavery in France and many of his works were destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13927621']It’s his story — or a fictionalized version of it with the requisite drama, romance, scandal and tears to fill in the many gaps in his biography — that’s told in the new film \u003cem>Chevalier\u003c/em>, which opens in theaters this week with Kelvin Harrison Jr. in the title role. In this France, everyone has English accents and he’s introduced having a very public violin-off with a very flustered Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in front of a large audience. Though this makes for a rousing start to the film, this is very unlikely to have happened, like quite a bit in the film. But it’s inspired by something real — scholars have posited that Mozart would have been well aware of Bologne and was perhaps even directly influenced by his string concertos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These and many more embellishments are easy to forgive, however. For one, they’re necessary to fill in the vast holes in a history that was purposefully neglected. It’s also entertainment that functions just as well if you have found yourself at \u003cem>Chevalier\u003c/em> not knowing that it is inspired by truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LtCIImfSCk&t=30s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the film, directed by Stephen Williams, Bologne’s father recognizes him as a musical prodigy and sends him to a boarding school in France to nurture his talent. This is also likely a fabrication and apparently it was more common than the film shows for the fathers of mixed-race children to send them to these schools. But at school he distinguishes himself in spite of resistance and racism — his father leaves him with a haunting requirement that excellence is his only defense. After a tense bout with a champion fencer, he catches the attention of Queen Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton), who gives him the title of nobility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13927175']Harrison and the script (written by \u003cem>Atlanta\u003c/em> scribe Stefani Robinson) make Bologne quite arrogant, at least at first. He made incredible strides in French society and had the talent to back it up. When he decides to put his name in the hat for the Paris Opera position, he rebuffs the advances of an older star, Marie-Madeleine Guimard (Minnie Driver), and fixates on a younger talent Marie-Joséphine de Comarieu (Samara Weaving) who he later starts an ill-advised affair with while writing an opera for her. \u003cem>Fleabag\u003c/em>’s Sian Clifford is a nice presence too as an opera producer and Marie-Joséphine’s cousin. It is quite a bit of soap opera fabrication, that’s a bit melodramatic but not ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s all serving to get Bologne, who had been quite content playing the necessary games to thrive within the system, to reach a moment of radicalization and revolt (along with much of France) as he grapples with injustices and prejudices. The arrival of his mother helps shatter his illusions too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, \u003cem>Chevalier\u003c/em> may be more fiction than history, but it’s worthwhile with effective acting, tension (helped by Kris Bowers’ score) and a decadently beautiful production. And it is especially important in a moment of fanciful \u003cem>Bridgerton\u003c/em>s to focus the lens on important people of color who did actually exist and who have been forgotten and erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2023 Associated Press. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/\" rel=\"noopener\">visit AP\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" 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>‘Chevalier’ is out on April 21, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Bright, anxious violins pick up speed as the figurative baptism progresses; over the course of a two-minute piece, composer Nicholas Britell’s score reflects the beauty and danger of the ocean, as well as the complex sea of emotions in our young protagonist: determination, hope and fear. I dare you to find me someone who didn’t sit in the movie theater holding their breath for the entire scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6yMItXePG8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the seven years since \u003cem>Moonlight\u003c/em>’s release, with films like \u003cem>If Beale Street Could Talk\u003c/em> and the limited series \u003cem>The Underground Railroad\u003c/em>, the partnership between Jenkins and Britell has produced numerous breathtaking moments like this. Jenkins tells stories of Black America, consistently turning an artful, unflinching eye on protagonists who are limited or literally trapped by injustice, by poverty and incarceration. And while Jenkins’ writing and direction are deeply empathetic, it’s often Britell’s scores — soaring, evocative works that apply R&B and hip-hop production techniques to classical music — that grant these characters their full humanity, reminding us that even people living in the most tragic of circumstances experience a vast range of emotion, including love and yearning along with anguish.[aside postid='forum_2010101892493']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A horn line swells, and we remember — oh, right. Every single person I meet has an entire universe of pain and beauty and unfulfilled dreams swirling inside them at all times. And then we weep uncontrollably into our popcorn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Britell, a classically trained pianist, has been a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/About-SFS/Collaborative-Partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaborative partner\u003c/a>” with the San Francisco Symphony since 2018. But his April 14–15 events with Jenkins at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/soundbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundBox\u003c/a>, with Symphony musicians performing works from \u003cem>Moonlight,\u003c/em> \u003cem>Beale Street\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Underground Railroad\u003c/em>, will present his most personal collaboration yet with the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers: Barry, your projects have always shown a love of music, even going back to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/24154/medicine_for_melancholy\">\u003cem>Medicine for Melancholy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Can you talk about where music lives in your writing process? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barry Jenkins:\u003c/strong> Music has always been part of it. I mean, I’ve always been surrounded by music — I grew up in a household where, even though we were so extremely poor, there was always music playing. Or I would go to the flea market and get tapes — and this is terrible as someone who now makes a living from copywritten material — but people would make these cassette tapes with all these different songs on them, and you could get a tape for like five bucks, as opposed to an album, which cost 15 or 20 bucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13844783']And I’ve always listened to music while I write. When I first got to college and started pursuing creative writing and working on film, I would go to this café to work. And between coffee, wine and music, I found that I could slip into a place where I could translate the feeling of what was happening in the scene in my head to the page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also when I was discovering the filmmakers who became foundational to my idea of what cinema was, people like Claire Denis and Wong Kar-wai, and they used music in a very open, very clear way. In film school, I was taught music is meant to be in the background of a film, which is kind of making it elevator music. So I was like, \u003cem>No, no, no:\u003c/em> I’ve seen films where you can use this combination of sound and images and score to really elevate what the character was feeling. That’s the place it’s always had for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927608\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"a black and white photo of a young Black man in a dark collared shirt with glasses, smiling at the camera \" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-2048x1358.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/3519cb71-3220-4c5f-bd61-a040847310ed-1920x1273.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry Jenkins’ San Francisco-set debut feature, ‘Medicine for Melancholy,’ will be released by The Criterion Collection in June, with new commentary from the filmmaker. \u003ccite>(Matt Morris)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’ve both spoken about not wanting to tell the audience how to feel, that it’s more about music that sounds the way the characters feel — kind of achieving interiority through music. Which, especially as a non-musician, seems mystical to me. Can you talk about what it looks like to get into that headspace and compose for different characters, especially people with very different lived experiences from your own?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicholas Britell:\u003c/strong> It can \u003cem>feel\u003c/em> mystical; I also use the word “alchemy” a lot. And so much of it is about this incredibly close collaboration, searching \u003cem>together\u003c/em> for things — I’m never working alone. Which is why it’s so special that Barry and I are doing this show; we get into this stream of consciousness when we’re in the room together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>Beale Street\u003c/em>, for example, Barry said “I’m hearing brass and horns.” So I started thinking about the scene where Tish and Fonny have finally been able to rent that apartment, and they’re in the street and they start shouting to the sky with joy. I think a lot about shapes. I feel that the shapes of things in music actually affect us all in similar ways. So, OK, I want the music to go upward — to shout to the sky. Well, what if it’s a trumpet shouting to the sky? And then I start doing experiments with brass, French horns, clarinet, trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, and I kind of go off into the wilderness and try things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, through experimenting together, we realized it was missing cellos. Like, \u003cem>oh, the cellos are the feeling of love.\u003c/em> And all of a sudden, if I take the chords that I was playing with brass but the cellos play them, everything feels different. It’s never, oh, what key signature is this, or what type of chord is this. It ultimately always comes back to feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmK71ZfaZO4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Audiences have these incredibly poignant, personal responses to these scores, where the music seems to help them access complicated feelings about their own lives. Have you seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQ7neoBhCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the comments\u003c/a> on “Agape” on YouTube?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barry Jenkins:\u003c/strong> They’re nuts. (Laughs.) Nuts! Way more people have listened to that piece than have even heard of this film. Way more people are going to hear that song than will ever watch \u003cem>If Beale Street Could Talk\u003c/em>. And I remember being there at the moment of its creation, in this really diligent but simple process of chasing what that moment felt like, both within the film and within the characters’ lives. It’s this very aspirational moment, when Tish is at her most hopeful, like everything is on the table for this family. And Nick just did this thing where he had the song keep reaching \u003cem>up and up and up\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Barry Jenkins\"]‘[James] Baldwin was … bottling this nuclear atom of the hopes, the aspirations, the yearning, the melancholy of Black life in America. And Nick somehow found a way to get in there and really translate that into music.’[/pullquote]But the way that piece of music connects with people, and this is me saying this, not Nick — these are Black films and this is Black music. It really is. And it’s amazing to me there are white people all over the world, we’ve seen this on Instagram, who walk down the aisle to this piece of music. I say it’s Black music because what Mr. Baldwin was writing, and what Regina and Stephan and KiKi are doing in that sequence, is bottling this nuclear atom of the hopes, the aspirations, the yearning, the melancholy of Black life in America. And Nick somehow found a way to get in there and really translate that into music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I get a little tipsy and I go read those comments on YouTube, I see that the whole journey of making that film, even if people only accessed it through hearing this one song, would have been worth it. Because the way people respond to the feeling of that music … I mean, sometimes it knocks me down. If you want to know the power, the effect, the legitimate movement that a piece of score can create, go look up that thing on YouTube and the things that complete strangers — who have no skin in the game on how successful this film is or isn’t! — and they’re just pouring themselves out about what this piece of music means to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a young white man with light brown hair in a black button-down shirt and glasses looks down away from the camera\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/image0-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Britell’s other scores include collaborations with director Adam McKay, including ‘The Big Short’ and ‘Don’t Look Up,’ as well as the HBO show ‘Succession.’ \u003ccite>(Emma McIntyre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicholas Britell:\u003c/strong> I’ll just add that the music that I write with Barry is unlike anything else that I write. In some ways, I think Barry lets me tap into different emotions, and there are certain feelings that I think we are both drawn to. And I get to figure out: what is the sound of that? So much of what we do is experimentation — Barry will like a kernel of something, so we follow that, but we don’t know where we’re going. Just that when we’re there, we’ll know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Moonlight\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Beale Street\u003c/em> were both so rooted in Miami and New York, respectively, the cities where they took place. But \u003cem>The Underground Railroad\u003c/em> takes us to so many different locations, and then also has surreal elements. How do you find the sound for something of that scope, especially without the anchor of a specific, singular time or place?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13897166']\u003cstrong>Nicholas Britell:\u003c/strong> The scale and scope and difficulty of \u003cem>The Underground Railroad\u003c/em> was unlike anything I’d ever done. I remember Barry saying to me, you know, each state is a different state of mind for Cora — and we thought of it almost like different planets. Because that journey is unlike \u003cem>anything\u003c/em>. As a comparison, it’s not \u003cem>Succession,\u003c/em> where, from episode 1 to 2, we’re probably in New York City, probably in the Roy family. This is like we’re in a different \u003cem>universe\u003c/em>. We’re in a different dimension, possibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the sonic experimentation, just the amount that we were going to push… we look at \u003cem>Moonlight\u003c/em>, where there was the idea of using \u003ca href=\"https://ra.co/features/4040\">chopped and screwed\u003c/a> as a technique, or in \u003cem>Beale Street\u003c/em>, where we’re taking the sounds of love and harming them so they’re broken and they become a sound of injustice. On \u003cem>Underground Railroad\u003c/em>, it was times 100. How do we push things to feel beyond what we can even imagine?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, what is the architecture? Because if you establish a musical idea at the very beginning of a film, part of the beauty, hopefully, is that if it comes back later, you have a memory of having felt it — even just subconsciously. So multiplying that across 10 episodes, when do we echo back? I remember showing Barry some new ideas at one point, and he was like, ‘You know what? No new ideas. We’re done.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUIo56q-Qw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barry Jenkins: \u003c/strong>\u003cem>The Underground Railroad\u003c/em> was definitely less of a literal journey, but to me it was also a much more clear emotional one: every state is different, because Cora’s mental state has shifted in addition to the setting. What Nick said about planets — I love that because different planets have different atmospheres, and these soundscapes are like those atmospheres. Venus is not like Mars, you know, it’s got to be completely different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we’re also responding to the world around us. [At one point during production] Nick and Caitlin, his wife, who’s a cellist, had moved out to L.A., and Nick, do you remember Caitlin took up this hobby of birdwatching?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicholas Britell: \u003c/strong>She’s still doing it. She’s an avid birder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barry Jenkins:\u003c/strong> She had all these feeders around, so there were these hummingbirds always around the studio. And I was thinking the other day, Nick, about the track “Fireflies.” And there’s a harp that’s played really fast, and to me, that’s the hummingbird wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13927602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13927602\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a crowd of people sits watching classical musicians perform in a dark club-like space with large artworks projected onto the walls and ceiling\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/DSC09282-grittani-creative-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘SoundBox: Modern Sanctuary,’ conducted by Edwin Outwater in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Mike Grittani/Grittani Creative)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you want people to know going into these SoundBox shows?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nicholas Britell:\u003c/strong> These performances are something Barry and I have never really done. While we’ve played \u003cem>Moonlight\u003c/em> live to picture before with orchestras, we have never actually performed in the authentic forms of the film with the original orchestrations. This is something we’ve been talking about since these were first written — like, how could we do this? \u003cem>Can\u003c/em> we do this? Because, for example, \u003cem>Beale Street\u003c/em> is as much an orchestration exercise, with these different instrument colors, as it is about these very special reverbs at times, where you hear the sounds sort of floating and soaring and swirling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barry Jenkins: \u003c/strong>We have heard stories about the reverb quality of SoundBox and we are hoping to put it through its paces. We’ve heard it’s legit. And the cats that work there are out to prove to us that it’s legit, so we’re pushing the boundaries with this concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ll also say — I moved to the Bay at a time in my life when I was incredibly down on myself, and I went through some ups and downs there. And I’d walk past the Symphony all the time, and I just never thought … There are going to be images of Black folks projected all throughout this show. These folks are going to be playing music that I think organically reflects the experience of Black people. And I just never, never thought there was a world in which that would ever happen. It’s gonna be very cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" 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>\u003ci>‘SoundBox: In Conversation With Nicholas Britell and Barry Jenkins’ takes place at 9 p.m. on Friday, April 14 and Saturday, April 15 at the San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox (300 Franklin St., San Francisco). Tickets start at $99; \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2022-23/SBX-NicholasBritell\">details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For decades, it was almost impossible to hear a piece of music written by \u003ca href=\"https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/4938/Florence-Price/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florence Price\u003c/a>. Price was a Black, female composer who died in 1953. But a group of New York City middle school students had the opportunity to quite literally write Florence Price’s history. Their book, titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/florence-price-book-launch-concert/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Who Is Florence Price?\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, is now out and available in stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-03-at-12.04.27-PM-800x1084.png\" alt=\"Book cover featuring an illustration of a Black woman wearing a green dress playing the piano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1084\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-03-at-12.04.27-PM-800x1084.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-03-at-12.04.27-PM-160x217.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-03-at-12.04.27-PM-768x1041.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-03-at-12.04.27-PM.png 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Who Is Florence Price?,’ by students of the Special Music School at Kaufman Music Center, New York..\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The kids attend \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/sms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special Music School\u003c/a>, a K-12 public school in Manhattan that teaches high-level music instruction alongside academics. Shannon Potts is an English teacher there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our children are musicians, so whether or not we intentionally draw it together, they bring music into the classroom every day in the most delightful ways,” Potts says. “So if you’re talking about themes and poetry, immediately a child will qualify it with the way that a theme repeats in music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potts assigned her sixth, seventh and eighth grade students to study Florence Price—a composer born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1887. She was the first Black woman to have her music played by a major American orchestra: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed her Symphony No. 1 in 1933 and her Piano Concerto in One Movement the next year. In 1939, at her \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/748757267/lift-every-voice-marian-anderson-florence-b-price-and-the-sound-of-black-sisterh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">famed Lincoln Memorial concert\u003c/a>, the contralto Marian Anderson included Price’s arrangement of the spiritual “My Soul is Anchored in the Lord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Price’s talent and drive, most classical music performers and gatekeepers put her aside, and her work failed to gain traction with the large, almost exclusively white institutions that could have catapulted her to mainstream renown. As she herself wrote in a letter to famed conductor Serge Koussevitzky, “I have two handicaps—those of sex and race.” She was not wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5nMxqxTO4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, though, there’s been a blossoming of interest in Price’s work. 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In the attic, they found boxes filled with yellowed sheets of music. Every piece was written by the same woman, Florence Price. ‘Who is Florence Price?’ they wondered…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florence’s mind was filled with music, but she had a big question. She was a girl and her skin was a different color than so many of the composers she knew about. Could she grow up to be a famous composer, too? When Florence was only 11, her first piece was published. Was it possible that Florence’s music could change things?”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Special Music School is a partnership between the New York City Board of Education and a performing arts center called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaufman Music Center\u003c/a>, whose executive director is Kate Sheeran. Sheeran was extremely enthusiastic about the students’ work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This beautiful book emerged that they wrote together, 45 of them together,” Sheeran recalls. “I found out about it when they brought it down to my office, and I was just floored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheeran was so impressed that she ordered a small, self-published print run of their work. She sent it around to various people in the classical music community—including Robert Thompson, the president of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/4938/Florence-Price/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G. 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She was also one of the lead illustrators of \u003cem>Who Is Florence Price?\u003c/em> and she says that Price has been a personal inspiration. “Her music has been out there, performed by major orchestras,” Beato says, “and she’s a woman of color, which even now—it’s like difficult to get your music shown to the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing the book was a process of discovery, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlUudUD2Vkk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cobie Buckmire\u003c/a>, a 13-year-old pianist from Brooklyn. “I didn’t even know who she was before I started this,” he notes. “All the other famous composers are white men like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hazel Peebles, a 13-year-old violist from Harlem, says that you can hear Price’s personal history in her music. “It really is beautiful,” Peebles observes. “She worked in some of her history, some of her Black background into the music. I really just love that and appreciate that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the students learned in creating this book goes far beyond music, Kate Sheeran says. “They’re also seeing that they can have a voice in shaping who writes history and who tells stories,” she says, “and that we don’t have to just accept the way music is presented to us or the way music history is presented to us—that they too can shape that. And that, to me, is the most exciting thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSmTa8hvd5U&t=1s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about representation in literature all the time,” Potts observes. “For kids to be able to become authors and activists in a way, to disrupt the story of the way that classical music is being told. They no longer, as a diverse population, become victims of a largely white society. They control the narrative. They can rewrite it. 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"content": "\u003cp>One might presume that having rare abilities leads to inevitable success in classical music, but that’s not always the case. As the music critic Harold Schonberg sagaciously wrote in 1992, “Not all prodigies develop into great performing artists, but on the other hand one cannot become a great performing artist without having been a prodigy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the United States has produced any homegrown piano prodigy of note in recent memory, \u003ca href=\"https://www.georgelipianist.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Li\u003c/a> of Massachusetts would appear to fit that bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 6 at San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall, Li, 25, performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491 with conductor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2020-21/A-Xian-Zhang-Conducts-the-SF-Symphony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xian Zhang and the San Francisco Symphony\u003c/a>. The program, which gets an encore Aug. 7 at Stanford University’s Frost Amphitheater, also includes William Grant Still’s \u003cem>Mother and Child\u003c/em> and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, K. 543.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li’s musical history has no shortage of stupefying anecdotes. At age 7, he was navigating the most treacherous of Chopin Etudes, the barometer of modern, virtuosic piano playing. By 11, there was an appearance on \u003cem>The Martha Stewart Show\u003c/em>. And four years after that, the White House called, and Li refined his talents before an audience of President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s funny. People tell me, ‘I used to watch your YouTube videos!’ But I never really saw myself as a prodigy,” Li says. “My parents kept telling me to keep working, that without diligence and hard work, there’s only so far talent can get you. And thankfully, I took that to heart. I was privileged to have great people, great teachers around me, and with my passion, was able to enter an environment where I could grow my mind as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/xRpfaGYcwfc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wha Kyung Byun, Li’s principal teacher, recalls first hearing the pianist when he was 11 years old. “I’ve heard many, many prodigies, but my first impression when George touched the piano was that he and the instrument became one,” she says. “The instrument ignites something in him, and music just burst out and came to life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition from prodigy to artist, historically speaking, has never been quite so straightforward. Schonberg’s perceptive remark, echoed by Byun, doesn’t shirk the reality of failure for most wunderkinds, a path laden with pitfalls, both musical and commercial. 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They must also learn to navigate prejudices and racial stereotypes that exist within the field to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had many severe moments,” reflects Li, whose parents are from China. “It’s really important to not racially profile anyone and make generalizations. They’re not helpful. Lang Lang’s musical expression is completely different from Yuja [Wang]’s, which is different from Seong-Jin Cho’s, which is different from mine. Everybody has a different statement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As Asians, we have parents who are very much helping us, pushing us to grow,” he says. “We do everything very seriously in music, so of course it’s hurtful when it’s all taken as a joke, or when people say, ‘Oh, you play very fast’ or ‘like robots with a metronome.’ Those remarks aren’t helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/1K5Jo6IxWtU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of these challenges, Li is, without question, a marvel of success. An English Literature major at Harvard, he won the silver medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, cementing a career that for decades has appeared on the verge of exploding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“George can do anything at the piano, truly, but he’s very humble,” Byun says. “When he learns how to produce a new sound at the piano, his eyes really shine. ‘I see it! I hear it!’ he tells me excitedly. And that ignites something within me. That’s really what music is all about: music reveals the very best things in life. Otherwise, life is just breathing. 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"content": "\u003cp>Composer Gabriela Lena Frank thinks of the climate crisis in terms of butterflies and worms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up in Berkeley, I remember putting my hands in the dirt in the garden that we had and insects would come out,” Frank says in a Zoom call. “That’s not just my imagination. Science says 60 percent of our insect life, and our bird population, is down. I remember going back and looking at old photo albums, my mom taking photos of me in the garden, and there were butterflies all around and it was just—it was different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank is an accomplished composer and educator in high demand. Her works have been performed by the Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, and her festival appearances are booked years in advance—she has a waiting list that reaches into 2026. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank is best known for imaginative fusions of Peruvian sounds with Western instruments in pieces like \u003cem>Ritmos Anchinos\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout\u003c/em>, multicultural collisions that express her own mixed heritage. Even as she kept busy with regular trips to Peru for anthropological work and running her own music education non-profit, she couldn’t shake her memories of butterfly-filled gardens. She couldn’t ignore that the land around her farm-slash-academy outside of Boonville, in Mendocino County, was changing before her eyes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to say 2018 is when I really woke up, when Paradise burned a couple hours from us, a county over,” says Frank. “I had musicians here at my academy, and we were literally breathing in its demise. It was just inescapable.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She became, in her words, “intimate with grief.” Now she’s channeling that grief into her elegy for the climate crisis, \u003cem>Contested Eden\u003c/em>, which premieres in an online stream on Saturday, July 31, to open this year’s all-virtual Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/CabrilloFest-Contested-Eden-Dance-credit-Crystal-Birns-013-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers kick up ash and dust among burned trees in the mountains\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900423\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/CabrilloFest-Contested-Eden-Dance-credit-Crystal-Birns-013-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/CabrilloFest-Contested-Eden-Dance-credit-Crystal-Birns-013-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/CabrilloFest-Contested-Eden-Dance-credit-Crystal-Birns-013-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/CabrilloFest-Contested-Eden-Dance-credit-Crystal-Birns-013-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/CabrilloFest-Contested-Eden-Dance-credit-Crystal-Birns-013-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/CabrilloFest-Contested-Eden-Dance-credit-Crystal-Birns-013.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers choreographed by Molly Katzman perform as part of the streamed premiere of ‘Contested Eden.’ \u003ccite>(Crystal Birns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Cabrillo, after going through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11835949/most-beautiful-place-on-earth-the-citizen-firefighters-who-stayed-behind-to-save-their-santa-cruz-mountain-paradise\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">their own difficult troubles with fires\u003c/a>, came to me a few months ago and asked, ‘Would you be open to doing something about the California fires?’” Frank recalls. ”They caught me by surprise, and I instantly just busted out crying. I lost my professional demeanor. I said yes before I even had an idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also Cabrillo’s idea to add a visual component to Frank’s piece. \u003cem>Contested Eden\u003c/em> will be accompanied by a pre-recorded dance, choreographed by Molly Katzman, performed on the blackened terrain left by the 2020 wildfires in the Santa Cruz mountains. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank wanted to express, through music, how the threat of fires has come to rule her and her neighbors’ lives. “Every year, my husband and I … we’re in fire preparation mode 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Frank says. “We’ve been cutting down trees, we installed about 40,000 gallons of water and tanks, we ripped off the cedar shingles on our main house, put on stucco. That cost me like two symphonies.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contested Eden\u003c/em> is about the fragility of life during the climate crisis; Frank calls it a secular elegy, split into two movements. “The first movement is essentially a prayer, and it goes super intimate. It can be played with a string quartet, just four players.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second movement, titled “in extremis,” brings in the full orchestra. “It builds up this big orchestral swell. And then it breaks, and as it breaks apart, you’re left with this one singing violin line up at the top. Then, over the next six minutes, it takes its time to wind its way down this one melodic arch before I pass it to the violas, to the cellos, to the basses. During this whole time, all these random bits of music are thrown up against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage represents the psychological wounds of contingent living, where even “the smallest human error, like a flat tire, can set off the biggest fire ever in Mendocino County.” Some of those random bits of music are quotations from Frank’s previous works, snippets of melody taken out of context, like charred pages from a book landing in a backyard, miles away. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even necessarily beautiful to listen to,” Frank says. “But that’s life in extremis. You’re just trying to keep going, and bits of you are coming out that don’t make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium 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>‘Contested Eden’ premieres Saturday, July 31, as part of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s virtual festival. Tickets are free to the public. \u003ca href=\"https://cabrillomusic.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I lost my professional demeanor. I said yes before I even had an idea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also Cabrillo’s idea to add a visual component to Frank’s piece. \u003cem>Contested Eden\u003c/em> will be accompanied by a pre-recorded dance, choreographed by Molly Katzman, performed on the blackened terrain left by the 2020 wildfires in the Santa Cruz mountains. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank wanted to express, through music, how the threat of fires has come to rule her and her neighbors’ lives. “Every year, my husband and I … we’re in fire preparation mode 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” Frank says. “We’ve been cutting down trees, we installed about 40,000 gallons of water and tanks, we ripped off the cedar shingles on our main house, put on stucco. That cost me like two symphonies.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Contested Eden\u003c/em> is about the fragility of life during the climate crisis; Frank calls it a secular elegy, split into two movements. “The first movement is essentially a prayer, and it goes super intimate. It can be played with a string quartet, just four players.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second movement, titled “in extremis,” brings in the full orchestra. “It builds up this big orchestral swell. And then it breaks, and as it breaks apart, you’re left with this one singing violin line up at the top. Then, over the next six minutes, it takes its time to wind its way down this one melodic arch before I pass it to the violas, to the cellos, to the basses. During this whole time, all these random bits of music are thrown up against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage represents the psychological wounds of contingent living, where even “the smallest human error, like a flat tire, can set off the biggest fire ever in Mendocino County.” Some of those random bits of music are quotations from Frank’s previous works, snippets of melody taken out of context, like charred pages from a book landing in a backyard, miles away. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not even necessarily beautiful to listen to,” Frank says. “But that’s life in extremis. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n February, \u003ca href=\"https://juliabullock.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julia Bullock\u003c/a> stood on stage at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, excavating the depths of her soul. To truly convey to the audience the euphoria and heartache of Benjamin Britten’s \u003cem>Les Illuminations\u003c/em>, based on Rimbaud’s poems about spiritual transcendence, drug addiction and homelessness, she had to tap into painful parts of her coming-of-age story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The act of going through all the imagery emotionally and then seeing where [it] takes me psychologically, that’s how I can hook into it and deliver it,” the star soprano explained to me backstage during rehearsal, just weeks before the COVID-19 shutdown hit. “Otherwise, it turns into some weird exercise of trying not to be a human being—and that I can’t tolerate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 33 years old, Bullock has become a luminary in the classical music world for her unique ability to capture a piece’s gripping emotional qualities in a way that transcends time, space and cultural barriers. She is a master of connection, digging deep into material to convey universal human experiences and emotions that lay within, refracting them through her prismatic voice to illuminate their beauty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ability to connect pieces of music through their emotional cores is also her strength as a curator. While praised for her innovative juxtapositions of Western classical music and traditionally Black American genres such as jazz, Bullock resists the idea that she does so simply to be different. (“I don’t ever want anything I’m presenting to the public to come off as me trying to be clever, because I feel the relationships in an explicit way,” she says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=large citation='Julia Bullock']“You can’t actually relate to people truly unless you’re bringing yourself into the room. You don’t have to present some perfect vision of yourself.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather, Bullock’s genre-mixing, cross-cultural programming is the output of a passionate listener and student of history with omnivorous tastes. Discussing a program called \u003cem>Lineage\u003c/em> that she curated for San Francisco Symphony’s Soundbox—its series of intimate, experimental performances—she points easily to the links between Nina Simone and Johann Sebastian Bach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can hear very explicitly in all of her improvisations that she’s referencing Bach, and she studied classical piano. The reason she started singing and playing jazz is because she needed a job,” she says of Simone, laughing in disbelief at this factoid. “Very practical!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s this adventurous ear that’s earned Bullock prestigious opportunities. She’s worked extensively with contemporary composers such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12731274/why-john-adams-wont-write-an-opera-about-president-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Adams\u003c/a>, snagging prominent roles in his operas \u003cem>Girls of the Golden West\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Doctor Atomic\u003c/em>. More recently, she was an artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Symphony and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she spent the 2018–19 season exploring the legacies of Josephine Baker and Langston Hughes and resurrecting the songs of enslaved people. Calling her residency at the Met historic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/12/julia-bullock-opera-singer-metropolitan-museum-of-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em>\u003c/a>’s Keziah Weir applauded Bullock’s unique ability to “inject each note she sings with a sense of grace and urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he coronavirus pandemic has, for all practical purposes, thwarted what was due to be an exciting year for Bullock at the San Francisco Symphony. Bullock’s Soundbox program originally slated for April was canceled, along with all Symphony live events until at least July of 2021. (Audiences may see some of the \u003cem>Lineage\u003c/em> material in a future online program.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the Symphony’s new musical director Esa-Pekka Salonen stepped into his role, and he enlisted Bullock and seven other interdisciplinary creatives as his “brain trust” of creative partners poised to help take the organization in new directions of embracing technology and a diversity of genres and cultural perspectives. A major showcase with them was supposed to kick off the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Symphony has forayed into\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/CURRENTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> podcasts and digital video\u003c/a>. (“No matter how we spin it, we are not an orchestra,” Salonen recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/music/san-francisco-symphony-nico-muhly.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “We are a media house.”) Yet despite these limitations, Salonen continues to experiment. On Saturday, Nov. 14, he, Bullock and the other creative partners will star in a digital premiere of composer Nico Muhly’s new piece, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-and-listen/Events/Throughline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Throughline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which functions more like a set of miniature concertos that bridge the digital divide. The performance will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-and-listen/Events/Throughline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stream online\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/tv/schedules/weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broadcast\u003c/a> on KQED Channel 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_2-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889263\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Bullock backstage at Davies Symphony Hall. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly nine months since our first interview, I catch up with Bullock via Zoom. Born in St. Louis and previously based in New York City, she now lives in Munich, Germany, where she’s been sheltering in place with her husband, conductor Christian Reif. Typically, the couple is apart for much of the year because of work travel. “Some days have been great and feeling relatively normal—or not normal, but just living my life,” she says. “And other days have felt incredibly disruptive. Feelings of frustration and irritation and discontent are equally as present as feeling grateful for being able to be with my husband.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bullock’s measured response is one of someone who’s visited her darkest places and spent years climbing back into the light, thanks to music and therapy. When we first met, in February, I asked Bullock why she’s so candid about her past struggles with addiction and mental health. In interviews, she’s discussed going to rehab at age 20, and how several years ago, her singing career was nearly derailed because of a psychosomatic ailment that caused her to gag uncontrollably, sometimes mid-song or mid-speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out she went public with this information by accident. She opened up about it to \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> journalist Zachary Woolfe during a cab ride in between \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/arts/music/julia-bullock-zauberland-lincoln-center.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviews\u003c/a>, she recalls, not realizing her confession would get published. But once it did, she found herself feeling not embarrassed, but freed from her secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/emeAjAK8fr4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really moving, hearing from other young performers who are struggling with similar things and afraid to talk about it—even amongst the friends, the teachers,” she says. “The reason you become a musician is because you’re allowing yourself to open up and be vulnerable and relate to people. But you can’t actually relate to people truly unless you’re bringing yourself into the room. You don’t have to present some perfect vision of yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hat grounded perspective has helped Bullock stay relatively calm during the pandemic. While scientists say COVID’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-sees-signs-of-curve-flattening/a-55573917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spread is slowing in Germany\u003c/a>, most of her friends and family and many of her collaborators live in the United States, which has some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/13/923253681/americans-are-dying-in-the-pandemic-at-rates-far-higher-than-in-other-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">globe’s worst COVID-19 infection and death rates\u003c/a>. Bullock has made the tough decision to not return across the Atlantic for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of this period I feel is about survival in the most literal sense, in a severe sense. I can’t be casual—and I don’t want anyone I love and care about to be casual about their lives right now,” she says. “There are certain decisions I’ve made about not traveling to the States because I didn’t want to put my life at risk and, honestly, I didn’t feel it was right putting any Black lives at risk to make some art. It seemed wildly irresponsible, and I’m glad I stood by that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Bullock. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bullock has given only a small handful of live performances this year, mostly in front of camera crews without an audience, but she’s been booked and busy with \u003ca href=\"https://juliabullock.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual concerts\u003c/a> at places like the Dutch National Opera and UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances. She’s also found a new creative outlet in singing at home, with her husband on piano. The duo has sent videos of their songs to friends and family as a way to connect across distance, and it’s made Bullock think of ways she can continue to express herself until she eventually returns to the stage before a live audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of an album now, as a work of art as an independent piece, is something that’s certainly been on my mind in recent months,” she says. “Creating something that speaks to this moment, but also feels timeless in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It anyone’s up to the task, it’s her. Bullock’s superpower lies in reaching across centuries and continents, and feeling into the love, yearning and loss at the core of the human experience. During a time of global tragedy, her empathetic, delicate and soulful approach is more necessary than ever to help us make sense of the chaotic year that is 2020.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can hear very explicitly in all of her improvisations that she’s referencing Bach, and she studied classical piano. The reason she started singing and playing jazz is because she needed a job,” she says of Simone, laughing in disbelief at this factoid. “Very practical!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s this adventurous ear that’s earned Bullock prestigious opportunities. She’s worked extensively with contemporary composers such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12731274/why-john-adams-wont-write-an-opera-about-president-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Adams\u003c/a>, snagging prominent roles in his operas \u003cem>Girls of the Golden West\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Doctor Atomic\u003c/em>. More recently, she was an artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Symphony and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she spent the 2018–19 season exploring the legacies of Josephine Baker and Langston Hughes and resurrecting the songs of enslaved people. Calling her residency at the Met historic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/12/julia-bullock-opera-singer-metropolitan-museum-of-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Vanity Fair\u003c/em>\u003c/a>’s Keziah Weir applauded Bullock’s unique ability to “inject each note she sings with a sense of grace and urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he coronavirus pandemic has, for all practical purposes, thwarted what was due to be an exciting year for Bullock at the San Francisco Symphony. Bullock’s Soundbox program originally slated for April was canceled, along with all Symphony live events until at least July of 2021. (Audiences may see some of the \u003cem>Lineage\u003c/em> material in a future online program.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the Symphony’s new musical director Esa-Pekka Salonen stepped into his role, and he enlisted Bullock and seven other interdisciplinary creatives as his “brain trust” of creative partners poised to help take the organization in new directions of embracing technology and a diversity of genres and cultural perspectives. A major showcase with them was supposed to kick off the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the Symphony has forayed into\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/CURRENTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> podcasts and digital video\u003c/a>. (“No matter how we spin it, we are not an orchestra,” Salonen recently told \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/music/san-francisco-symphony-nico-muhly.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. “We are a media house.”) Yet despite these limitations, Salonen continues to experiment. On Saturday, Nov. 14, he, Bullock and the other creative partners will star in a digital premiere of composer Nico Muhly’s new piece, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-and-listen/Events/Throughline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Throughline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which functions more like a set of miniature concertos that bridge the digital divide. The performance will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-and-listen/Events/Throughline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stream online\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/tv/schedules/weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broadcast\u003c/a> on KQED Channel 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_2-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889263\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Bullock backstage at Davies Symphony Hall. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearly nine months since our first interview, I catch up with Bullock via Zoom. Born in St. Louis and previously based in New York City, she now lives in Munich, Germany, where she’s been sheltering in place with her husband, conductor Christian Reif. Typically, the couple is apart for much of the year because of work travel. “Some days have been great and feeling relatively normal—or not normal, but just living my life,” she says. “And other days have felt incredibly disruptive. Feelings of frustration and irritation and discontent are equally as present as feeling grateful for being able to be with my husband.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bullock’s measured response is one of someone who’s visited her darkest places and spent years climbing back into the light, thanks to music and therapy. When we first met, in February, I asked Bullock why she’s so candid about her past struggles with addiction and mental health. In interviews, she’s discussed going to rehab at age 20, and how several years ago, her singing career was nearly derailed because of a psychosomatic ailment that caused her to gag uncontrollably, sometimes mid-song or mid-speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out she went public with this information by accident. She opened up about it to \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> journalist Zachary Woolfe during a cab ride in between \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/arts/music/julia-bullock-zauberland-lincoln-center.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviews\u003c/a>, she recalls, not realizing her confession would get published. But once it did, she found herself feeling not embarrassed, but freed from her secret.\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/emeAjAK8fr4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/emeAjAK8fr4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“It was really moving, hearing from other young performers who are struggling with similar things and afraid to talk about it—even amongst the friends, the teachers,” she says. “The reason you become a musician is because you’re allowing yourself to open up and be vulnerable and relate to people. But you can’t actually relate to people truly unless you’re bringing yourself into the room. You don’t have to present some perfect vision of yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hat grounded perspective has helped Bullock stay relatively calm during the pandemic. While scientists say COVID’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-sees-signs-of-curve-flattening/a-55573917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spread is slowing in Germany\u003c/a>, most of her friends and family and many of her collaborators live in the United States, which has some of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/13/923253681/americans-are-dying-in-the-pandemic-at-rates-far-higher-than-in-other-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">globe’s worst COVID-19 infection and death rates\u003c/a>. Bullock has made the tough decision to not return across the Atlantic for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of this period I feel is about survival in the most literal sense, in a severe sense. I can’t be casual—and I don’t want anyone I love and care about to be casual about their lives right now,” she says. “There are certain decisions I’ve made about not traveling to the States because I didn’t want to put my life at risk and, honestly, I didn’t feel it was right putting any Black lives at risk to make some art. It seemed wildly irresponsible, and I’m glad I stood by that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/KEQD_Julia_Bullock_Hires_3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Bullock. \u003ccite>(Graham Holoch)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bullock has given only a small handful of live performances this year, mostly in front of camera crews without an audience, but she’s been booked and busy with \u003ca href=\"https://juliabullock.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual concerts\u003c/a> at places like the Dutch National Opera and UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances. She’s also found a new creative outlet in singing at home, with her husband on piano. The duo has sent videos of their songs to friends and family as a way to connect across distance, and it’s made Bullock think of ways she can continue to express herself until she eventually returns to the stage before a live audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of an album now, as a work of art as an independent piece, is something that’s certainly been on my mind in recent months,” she says. “Creating something that speaks to this moment, but also feels timeless in some way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The world of orchestra conducting is still a mostly male-dominated field. In the United States, around 9% of major orchestras are directed by women. In Europe, it’s less than 6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founders of La Maestra, a Paris-based organization, set out to change that by promoting the talent of budding female conductors in their very first competition, held in mid-September. Out of more than 200 applicants, 12 female conductors from across four continents competed for three top prizes, including cash, mentoring and a series of concerts conducting orchestras in France and abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People say, ‘Is it really necessary to have these opportunities for women? It seems discriminatory toward men,’ ” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15033224/marin-alsop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin Alsop\u003c/a>, a competition judge who leads both the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. “All I can say is that men have had hundreds of years to open the door to women and they chose not to. This isn’t really about competing. It’s about creating community and a support system for these women to grow and become great artists in their own right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gladysmarli Vadel, a 25-year-old conductor from Venezuela who has played the violin since age 4, advanced to the semi-finals. Traveling to the competition marked her first time leaving the country and her first time on a plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love the violin in the orchestra—I adore it,” Vadel says. “But when I played, I felt an emptiness. Something was missing, until one day I was joking around with friends, telling them, ‘I’m going to imitate the conductor, and you will be my orchestra.’ I was just joking around back then, but who would have known that it would become my inspiration to become a conductor today?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six semi-finalists each got 50 minutes to conduct the Paris Mozart Orchestra in works by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15232481/ludwig-van-beethoven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beethoven\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/89571552/robert-schumann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schumann\u003c/a> and a new piece written for the competition. That the competition was originally slated for March, but the pandemic caused a delay. The rescheduled event featured a reduced orchestra on stage and a spaced, masked audience. But Claire Gibault, one of the founders of La Maestra, says the conductors still faced challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Traveling was difficult and some of the contestants had not conducted for six months, because there were no events in the artistic world,” Gibault says. “So some of the women were a little fragile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To lead an orchestra, you have to exude a certain confidence, according to Vadel. “If the orchestra feels the conductor’s confidence, they will trust in you,” she says. “And they’ll be able to do everything you want to convey. It’s the most important thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow semi-finalist Stephanie Childress displayed a knowledge and authority well beyond her 21 years. The Franco-British conductor reminded the musicians that Schumann made corrections to his score just before entering an asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a tempestuous piece that he revised during very turbulent times,” Childress says. “And I think that’s a big part of being a conductor—you’ve got to not only have the technical aspect of things sorted, you have to be kind of mildly charismatic and also passionate about the music [so] you can instill that in the people around you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Childress, whose parents she describes as old rockers, grew up listening to Queen and Tina Turner. She attended her first classical concert at age 4, where she heard the genre-bending violinist Nigel Kennedy play \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/16512619/antonio-vivaldi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vivaldi\u003c/a>‘s \u003cem>Four Seasons\u003c/em>. “He was jumping around and having so much fun, having a whale of a time and, I thought, ‘Wow this seems quite interesting, this classical music business.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has been some progress in putting women on the conductor’s podium. But Gibault, who was the first woman to lead Milan’s La Scala orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic, says we can’t afford to wait 50 more years for things to get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sent out a call to the whole world with very demanding criteria,” she says. “We attracted 220 candidates from 51 nations. 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