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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yet cancellations are so widespread that even seasoned classical musicians who derive income from as many as a dozen orchestras are now exploring unemployment benefits. Bruce Chrisp, principal trombonist with eight orchestras, and a UC Davis faculty member, said the concert cancellations he learned of just this past week alone will cost him an anticipated $7,400.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My projected income right now is zero,” he said. Chrisp said his spouse Gabrielle Wunsch, a freelance violinist with the Oakland and Marin symphonies, is exhibiting flu-like symptoms (the Vallejo Medical Center refused them coronavirus tests), and they’ve now self-quarantined at home in Vallejo—increasing their anxieties about paying $1,100 a month for health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no safety net,” said Chrisp, a professional musician since 1985. “You think you have security when you have as many jobs as I do, because what could go wrong all at once?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13876570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1811px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13876570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/OaklandSymphonyOrchestra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1811\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/OaklandSymphonyOrchestra.jpg 1811w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/OaklandSymphonyOrchestra-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/OaklandSymphonyOrchestra-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/OaklandSymphonyOrchestra-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/OaklandSymphonyOrchestra-1020x676.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1811px) 100vw, 1811px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Symphony Orchestra \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Symphony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alicia Mastromonaco, a french horn player with the Marin and Monterey symphonies, also learned this week of cancellations costing her thousands. Mastromonaco, an active American Federation of Musicians member, said the freeway philharmonic community is sharing advice on unemployment and alternative work to prepare for cancellations extending beyond March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like wildfires and power shut-offs in recent years, Mastromonaco said, coronavirus-related cancellations are being considered \u003cem>force majeure\u003c/em>, or unforeseeable events that prevent orchestras from fulfilling the terms of their contracts with musicians. “It’s a liability for management—no one wants to be the organization that an outbreak traces back to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an exception, though, the Monterey Symphony is paying artists for canceled March events in recognition of musicians’ “vulnerable position,” it said in a statement. Opera San Jose, meanwhile, has \u003ca href=\"https://www.operasj.org/a-personal-message-from-gd-khori-dastoor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched\u003c/a> an artists and musicians relief fund to support workers in the months ahead. Most orchestras are urging patrons to donate tickets in lieu of refunds, a move musicians endorse. “We don’t want these organizations to go bankrupt,” Mastromonaco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Show-goers who want to support artists in other ways should encourage leadership of performing arts organizations to reschedule spring programming for the summer, Mastromonaco said. “First of all, for me, was the disappointment of not being able to play the music we’ve been preparing,” she said. “Some of us have been suggesting orchestras live-stream the concerts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Performers, like workers in other sectors of the economy, are also beginning to turn to elected officials for relief. Actors Equity Association, the national labor union representing actors and stage managers in live theater, on Wednesday called on Congress members for relief measures beyond payroll tax cuts to ensure arts workers have access to healthcare and unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The nightlife sector in San Francisco alone employs tens of thousands of people and generates billions of dollars, according to the Controller’s Office, making it a major economic driver. Cumings, the Musicians Union Local 6 president, seconded the call for government relief for performing artists. “The impact will depend on how long the closures last,” he said. “If it goes on much longer the only entity that could offset the effects is going to be the federal government.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ask a musician: every instrument has a story behind it. Who played it, where, why and how. One father and son team in Israel has built a collection of 87 violins (and counting) that survived the Holocaust. Now they’re in the San Francisco Bay Area through mid-March, sharing those violins and their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the violins have been restored: revarnished, restrung, the bridge, chin rest and other parts replaced. But some have been left untouched, so you can see they’ve been to hell and back, literally. Violins are light enough to carry, even on a death march; valuable enough to bury in the backyard, or sell, if you’re starving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many musicians in the concentration camps could lengthen their lives by playing in orchestras there, because many Nazis liked to listen to classical music and forced their prisoners to entertain them. A surprising number of violins survived the Holocaust, even though their owners didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tel Aviv luthier Amnon Weinstein, himself a son of Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, began collecting these violins after another Holocaust survivor brought him one to restore. When Weinstein opened up the man’s violin, he found ashes inside from the concentration camp the man had once played in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially appalled, Weinsten began to lovingly restore them as vehicles for the transmission of history. His collection expanded on that of his father’s, who held on to instruments other Holocaust survivors were desperate to discard as they sloughed off all things German to start life anew in Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Amnon Weinstein repairing a violin in his Tel Aviv workshop.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/RS40988_Music-at-Kohl-Amnon-Weinstein-working-on-Violins-of-Hope-photo-courtesy-Amnon-Weinstein-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amnon Weinstein repairing a violin in his Tel Aviv workshop. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amnon Weinstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weinstein’s son Avshalom inherited his father’s love of violin-making, as well as his passion for keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive as the world’s collective memory of it fades with passing of the last generation of survivors. “There was music everywhere. Every camp had at least one orchestra,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they have 87 violins, a viola and a cello. That may seem like a lot, but consider that almost every Jewish household in Europe owned one or more violin before World War II. Each violin has a story, though not all the violins come with family members who know of it. Sometimes, the story is one of resilience and survival against the odds. Sometimes, the story is one of inevitable tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Weinsteins don’t know who the violin belonged to, they name it after a survivor they do know. One restored violin is named, for instance after Amnon’s wife’s grandfather, one of the three brothers who formed the Bielski brigade in Belarus who inspired the movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw6Rwum7zcU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Defiance\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Father and son began touring in 2008, combining stories they know of with performances by local musicians. Both Weinsteins feel these violins must be played, not just put on display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was this past week at \u003ca href=\"https://www.numulosgatos.org/exhibitions-2/voh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Museum Los Gatos\u003c/a>, that violinist \u003ca href=\"https://hannahtarley.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannah Tarley\u003c/a>, whose ancestors hailed from Belarus, picked up one of these surviving violins to play a Yiddish song from the 19th century called \u003cem>Oyfn Pripetshik\u003c/em>. It’s considered one of the most poignant musical memories of pre-holocaust Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/752423227″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tarley played before an audience full of members of \u003ca href=\"https://www.shirhadash.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congregation Shir Hadash\u003c/a> in Los Gatos, many of them began to hum along, haunting proof of the way music has the capacity to survive the loss of so much cultural memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lyrics of the fourth stanza reference the long history of persecution of Jews in Europe, but today, they eerily seem to prophesy worse horrors to come:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ir vet, kinder, elter vern,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vet ir aleyn farshteyn,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vifl in di oysyes lign trern,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Un vi fil geveyn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When you grow older, children,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>You will understand by yourselves,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>How many tears lie in these letters,\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>And how much lament.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://violinsofhopesfba.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Violins of Hope San Francisco Bay Area Project\u003c/a> has something — a concert, an exhibition, a classroom visit — planned for eight Bay Area counties. The two-month residency, involving more than 40 local arts, educational, community and religious institutions, is the brainchild of Patricia Kristof Moy, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://musicatkohl.org/violins-of-hope-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Music at Kohl Mansion\u003c/a> in Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1045px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13874157\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB.jpeg\" alt=\"Detail of an affordably priced German model circa 1870s, designed for an unknown Klezmer musician, hence the inlaid mother of pearl Star of David.\" width=\"1045\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB.jpeg 1045w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-800x532.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-768x511.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/01/RS40992_Bielski-ViolinWEB-1020x678.jpeg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of an affordably priced German model circa 1870s, designed for an unknown Klezmer musician, hence the inlaid mother of pearl Star of David. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Amnon Weinstein)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1580435548622_162\">Moy, also the descendent of Holocaust survivors, saw the Weinsteins in Cleveland several years ago and committed herself to lining up the funding and organizational support to bring them to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really had no idea when we started planning this five years ago that our world would be in the state of turmoil that it’s in,” she said. “This extraordinary project is more timely than we ever knew. It’s the violins of hope. It’s not the violins of despair. To hope is to be human.”\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Violins of Hope San Francisco Bay Area Project \u003c/strong>runs through March 15, 2020, featuring more than 70 events region-wide including concerts, lectures, exhibits, films, community forums, ecumenical services, interfaith dialogues and educational workshops. For more information click \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://violinsofhopesfba.org/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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One restored violin is named, for instance after Amnon’s wife’s grandfather, one of the three brothers who formed the Bielski brigade in Belarus who inspired the movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw6Rwum7zcU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Defiance\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Father and son began touring in 2008, combining stories they know of with performances by local musicians. 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He’s just got to get his bearings first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"(L–R) Christian Reif, Julia Bullock, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mark Hansen at Salonen's welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-768x544.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Christian Reif, Julia Bullock, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mark Hansen at Salonen’s welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco is certainly ready to show him around. During his official welcome party last night at SoundBox, a video screened with personalized welcomes from luminaries like Mayor London Breed, Warriors coach Steve Kerr, composer John Adams and SFMOMA director Neal Benezra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also part of the welcomes was Jerome Guillen, from Tesla. Which brings up one of two big ancillary discussions around Salonen’s appointment, concerning the tech sector and the ways Salonen might engage with it. (No doubt the Symphony’s fundraising team is excited for a tech-leaning director; there’s more money than ever in the Bay Area, but with less of it, proportionally, going to the arts.) The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> headline on his appointment called him a “disrupter,” and later noted that after his appointment he quickly met with Carol Reiley, an AI entrepreneur and roboticist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Mju6mMj1kH2pdm6tqMQ2ResaTNO0P6Sv”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I found Reiley at the welcome party, and asked what the two had up their sleeve. Would we one day walk into Davies Symphony Hall, be handed a virtual reality headset, and listen to robots playing AI-generated compositions while following along on an app?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiley laughed. “What I \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> think we want is something that’s gimmicky,” she said. “Something that’s thoughtful, that helps us understand how humans communicate, especially nonverbally. We’re not interested in people’s experiences at the symphony becoming a sideshow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Reiley at Esa-Pekka Salonen's welcome party to the San Francisco Symphony, Dec. 5, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Reiley at Esa-Pekka Salonen’s welcome party to the San Francisco Symphony, Dec. 5, 2018. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reiley and Salonen had never met until his appointment, when he asked for someone in the Bay Area with AI experience. The San Francisco Symphony would be a willing and able playground for experimentation—one look at their Soundbox series tells you as much. But what that means for performances remains to be seen; Reiley didn’t rule out tech augmenting the physical live performance of music, or being involved with “the data behind music and composing,” which sounds like a delicate balancing act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage last night, Salonen got a laugh when he emphasized his commitment to “live musicians, playing in front of a live audience… conducted by a live conductor, \u003cem>hopefully\u003c/em>.” Mentions of tech and disruption peppered welcome speeches by the Symphony’s executives seated around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One interesting thing [Salonen] said when we met was that classical music hasn’t really changed since Beethoven’s day,” Reiley told me, “and then you have this other field of AI, which is disrupting itself every year or two. So how can AI really create the next art movement, or change something fundamental about classical music without changing what is pure?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Esa-Pekka Salonen accepts his appointment as new Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony at a welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esa-Pekka Salonen accepts his appointment as new Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony at a welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he other ancillary conversation around Salonen’s appointment is the fact that the San Francisco Symphony has chosen another older white man to lead the orchestra. This isn’t just uber-woke hysterics; it’s an issue regularly discussed by the country’s leading top classical critics, and by arts leaders in general. The San Francisco Symphony itself even has a diversity committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we talked, Salonen openly addressed the issue. “I’m fully aware of the fact that I’m an old, white guy who deals with an art form that has deep European roots and is essentially something that was imported to this country 150 years ago,” said Salonen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED’s Chloe Veltman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846403/esa-pekka-salonen-appointed-music-director-at-sf-symphony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported yesterday\u003c/a>, both Michael Morgan of the Oakland Symphony and Jessica Bejarano of the San Francisco Civic Symphony hailed Salonen’s experience and vision, and expressed that the problem of diversity in the arts is bigger than one orchestra’s selection board or one orchestra’s music director. Morgan, an African American, asked bluntly, “Who would the diverse choice be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846585\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846585\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/KaitlynAureliaSmith-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith performs at the San Francisco Symphony's welcome party for Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dec. 5, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/KaitlynAureliaSmith-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/KaitlynAureliaSmith-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/KaitlynAureliaSmith-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/KaitlynAureliaSmith-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/KaitlynAureliaSmith-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/KaitlynAureliaSmith.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith performs at the San Francisco Symphony’s welcome party for Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dec. 5, 2018. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In other words, it’s a systemic pipeline issue in classical music. And one Salonen appears eager to help fix with an eight-member brain trust of collaborative partners he’s assembled—including soprano Julia Bullock and jazz bassist and composer Esperanza Spalding, both African-American women. (Reiley, of Asian descent, is part of the group as well.) When I chatted with newspaper critics, classical radio hosts and fans at the party last night, the consensus was that of the older white men the Symphony could have chosen, Salonen is the most willing to change the system from within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m fully invested in trying to widen the horizon of this organization,” he said in yesterday’s interview, “not only in terms of reaching out to segments of the audience that that haven’t been coming to the concerts frequently, but also trying to develop the actual artistic content of the orchestra and the institution in such a way that the community would feel that the orchestra is doing something more relevant in their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846594\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/pekka-800x642.jpg\" alt=\"Esa-Pekka Salonen accepts his appointment as new Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony at a welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/pekka.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/pekka-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/pekka-768x616.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/pekka-240x193.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/pekka-375x301.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/pekka-520x417.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esa-Pekka Salonen accepts his appointment as new Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony at a welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salonen has an interesting nature about him, the kind that finds value in wonderment and strength in admitting blind spots. At the announcement party, he said on stage, of leading an orchestra, “I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I still don’t understand how it works, in a physical sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the sort of thing outgoing director Michael Tilson Thomas might say for effect, but you can tell Salonen means it. And, as he declared last night, just before raising a gin and tonic to his new position, “I want to have fun… I don’t mind hard work, but I want to have fun too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Someone, please: take this guy out for a burrito and a baseball game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\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\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s a quiet, almost mischievous vibe about Salonen, one that he chalks up to his Finnish blood, and one that feels ready to explode with radical ideas. He’s just got to get his bearings first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846583\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"(L–R) Christian Reif, Julia Bullock, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mark Hansen at Salonen's welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-800x566.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-768x544.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-1020x722.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_-1200x849.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Group_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Christian Reif, Julia Bullock, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mark Hansen at Salonen’s welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco is certainly ready to show him around. During his official welcome party last night at SoundBox, a video screened with personalized welcomes from luminaries like Mayor London Breed, Warriors coach Steve Kerr, composer John Adams and SFMOMA director Neal Benezra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also part of the welcomes was Jerome Guillen, from Tesla. Which brings up one of two big ancillary discussions around Salonen’s appointment, concerning the tech sector and the ways Salonen might engage with it. (No doubt the Symphony’s fundraising team is excited for a tech-leaning director; there’s more money than ever in the Bay Area, but with less of it, proportionally, going to the arts.) The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> headline on his appointment called him a “disrupter,” and later noted that after his appointment he quickly met with Carol Reiley, an AI entrepreneur and roboticist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I found Reiley at the welcome party, and asked what the two had up their sleeve. Would we one day walk into Davies Symphony Hall, be handed a virtual reality headset, and listen to robots playing AI-generated compositions while following along on an app?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiley laughed. “What I \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> think we want is something that’s gimmicky,” she said. “Something that’s thoughtful, that helps us understand how humans communicate, especially nonverbally. We’re not interested in people’s experiences at the symphony becoming a sideshow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Carol Reiley at Esa-Pekka Salonen's welcome party to the San Francisco Symphony, Dec. 5, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/CarolReiley.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Reiley at Esa-Pekka Salonen’s welcome party to the San Francisco Symphony, Dec. 5, 2018. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reiley and Salonen had never met until his appointment, when he asked for someone in the Bay Area with AI experience. The San Francisco Symphony would be a willing and able playground for experimentation—one look at their Soundbox series tells you as much. But what that means for performances remains to be seen; Reiley didn’t rule out tech augmenting the physical live performance of music, or being involved with “the data behind music and composing,” which sounds like a delicate balancing act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage last night, Salonen got a laugh when he emphasized his commitment to “live musicians, playing in front of a live audience… conducted by a live conductor, \u003cem>hopefully\u003c/em>.” Mentions of tech and disruption peppered welcome speeches by the Symphony’s executives seated around him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One interesting thing [Salonen] said when we met was that classical music hasn’t really changed since Beethoven’s day,” Reiley told me, “and then you have this other field of AI, which is disrupting itself every year or two. So how can AI really create the next art movement, or change something fundamental about classical music without changing what is pure?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13846584\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13846584\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Esa-Pekka Salonen accepts his appointment as new Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony at a welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EsaPekka.Big_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esa-Pekka Salonen accepts his appointment as new Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony at a welcome party, Dec. 5, 2018. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he other ancillary conversation around Salonen’s appointment is the fact that the San Francisco Symphony has chosen another older white man to lead the orchestra. This isn’t just uber-woke hysterics; it’s an issue regularly discussed by the country’s leading top classical critics, and by arts leaders in general. The San Francisco Symphony itself even has a diversity committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we talked, Salonen openly addressed the issue. “I’m fully aware of the fact that I’m an old, white guy who deals with an art form that has deep European roots and is essentially something that was imported to this country 150 years ago,” said Salonen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED’s Chloe Veltman \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13846403/esa-pekka-salonen-appointed-music-director-at-sf-symphony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported yesterday\u003c/a>, both Michael Morgan of the Oakland Symphony and Jessica Bejarano of the San Francisco Civic Symphony hailed Salonen’s experience and vision, and expressed that the problem of diversity in the arts is bigger than one orchestra’s selection board or one orchestra’s music director. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to KQED Arts’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/bay-brilliant\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Brilliant\u003c/a>, a series celebrating 10 local artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2018. Driven by passion for their own disciplines—music, dance, theater, visual art, performance, writing, illustration and more—these artists are true vanguards paving the way in their respective communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Bejarano isn’t your average classical conductor. As a tattooed Mexican-American woman holding the baton, she stands out on just about any orchestra’s podium. The thing is: Bejarano’s been on a lot of podiums, all over the world. When she isn’t at home conducting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcivicmusic.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Civic Symphony\u003c/a> or serving as music director for San Francisco University High School, she keeps busy conducting overseas in countries like Russia, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Spain, Venezuela, and the Czech Republic, and with orchestras in the U.S. from Santa Cruz to Baltimore. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s no small feat for someone who grew up in Bell Gardens, the largely minority and low-income city southeast of Los Angeles, where “classical music was not a thing, by any means,” Bejarano says. Add to that a rough coming-out experience, and the numerous times she was told point-blank that she’d never be a successful conductor in the U.S. due to her looks and background, her stature in the classical music world becomes even more impressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she uses her position to lift up others. Recently, Bejarano invited San Francisco Symphony violinist Eliot Lev, the first openly transgender member of a major American orchestra, to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major with the San Francisco Civic Symphony—an 85-member orchestra that’s among the most diverse in the region. And whether as a teacher, conductor, or director, Bejarano’s approach is the same: “There’s a wonderful magic that comes with inspiring people,” she says, “and knowing how to motivate them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13838912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bejarano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13838912\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-520x371.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Bejarano. \u003ccite>(Jean Melesaine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was your introduction to classical music? Did it feel exclusionary to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes. I didn’t discover classical music until my first year of college. In order to fulfill my scholarship, because I was a trumpet player, I had to play in a few ensembles. I sat in the orchestra, and I remember it was Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Smetana’s \u003cem>The Moldau\u003c/em>, and a Vaughan Williams requiem. And I remember just sitting there, blown away. I was like, “Where did this come from? Where has this been?” It was like that music was already ingrained in my body, but it just needed to be activated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially my undergraduate degrees were in music education; I wanted to be a music educator at a top-notch high school or at a college. But then I had the epiphany that I wanted to be a conductor. And if I had stopped for a minute and been like, “Okay, let me do some research and look at the history. How many women are in this field? What does it look like? How many women exist in this country or outside of the country in this field?” If I’d have done that kind of homework and seen the statistics, or lack thereof, I might’ve been dissuaded and been like, “Whoa, this is gonna be more of a battle than I’m ready for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I didn’t look at any of that. I didn’t look at the lack of females in the field. I just knew that I was motivated, I was thirsty for it, and I was passionate about conducting and being a leader. So I just went for it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13838911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-800x1120.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bejarano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13838911\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-857x1200.jpg 857w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-960x1344.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-240x336.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-375x525.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-520x728.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Bejarano. \u003ccite>(Artemisia Luk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What kind of challenges and obstacles have you faced?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many. Maybe too many. But it’s those obstacles and all those “no”s that I’ve been told that I’ve used to my advantage. Every time I was told no, and every time I got a letter saying “thank you but no thank you,” or every time I was told I couldn’t make it as a conductor in this country, I would take that energy and use it to motivate me and to keep that fire burning even brighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all the people that mentored me were good to me. Not at all. There is a thing that people call tough love. I would just call it tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was your coming-out story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, that’s not a pretty story. I was outed when I was 13, 14 years old. I told a cousin in confidence and he turned around and told my mother. My family being Mexican, very religiously driven and culturally driven, the woman is supposed to get married, be a wife, be a mother, bear children and so forth—I’m like the complete opposite of that. I was defying our culture, I was defying our religion. And then they were immigrants as well, so there was just that fear behind it. My mother and family did not take it well whatsoever. It took them years, years, \u003cem>years\u003c/em> to get over it. And then by the time I was in college, when a bunch of my cousins came out, they were just like, “Okay, I guess it’s fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does it feel now to not just have these accomplishments and this career, but to be able to help others who may have been told “no” along the way?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m starting my third year with San Francisco Civic Symphony. It’s a full size 85-piece orchestra; they’re the oldest community orchestra this side of the Mississippi. They’ve been around for over 80 years. The thing about that orchestra, it is a community orchestra, and you get an array of talent. So, for me as a director, it’s like, how do I make it all-inclusive for everyone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, no matter if it’s a professional orchestra, a community orchestra, as a director, my philosophy when I work with musicians is not to demand and insist, but to motivate and inspire. And when I have that kind of energy with my musicians, it keeps them on their toes. It keeps them on the edge of their seat and it keeps them in tune. No one wants to listen as someone berate them over and over again, and just hammer over them how awful they are or they’re not getting this right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a wonderful magic that comes with inspiring people and knowing how to motivate them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13838914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-800x1120.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bejarano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13838914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-857x1200.jpg 857w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-960x1344.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-240x336.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-375x525.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-520x728.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Bejarano. \u003ccite>(Jean Melesaine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does living in San Francisco inform your work and what you do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve lived here 11 years now and I love this city. I absolutely love this city. Let me tell you what this city means to me. After I graduated from UC Davis, I had a plan to go to Europe conducting in Romania and Italy, travel around Europe, come back, and drive to South Carolina, because I got accepted to start my DMA in orchestral conducting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long story short, I was offered a job at the Peninsula Symphony down in Los Altos. Assistant conductor, Peninsula Symphony, four-year contract. And it paid $2,000 a year. After taxes, $224 a month. I had 24 hours to decide if I wanted to start my Doctorate like I’d planned, or be conducting in the Bay Area on $2,000 a year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And San Francisco, as a kid, has always been my dream city. For me it was like gay Disneyland. I’ve always wanted to be here, but it seemed like my life was never going to bring me here—until this position came to fruition. So, I reached out to my mentors. I was like, “What would you do? What would you do?” Hands down, everyone said, “Take the job. Because you’re going to get your foot in the door. You’re actually going to be a conductor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, I took my first job… for $2,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0sqCBkTkI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What motivates you every day?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously I have a love of music. But growing up in a very poor community and a poor family, I only grew up with my mother and she worked two, three jobs. She worked at Toys ‘R’ Us. She worked at a hamburger joint. She worked at a Pick ‘n Save. In the evenings, she would go collect cans and plastic bottles to recycle them and make more money. Later, when I was in college, my mom was working at a casino. You know those people that stand in the bathroom, that clean the counters and give you mints? That was my mom. She would push around the trash can. 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Most artists that I know have multiple jobs in order to live comfortably. Even me—I’m also a music director at San Francisco University High School. But it’s worth it. It’s absolutely worth it. I can’t believe that I get paid to direct the San Francisco Civic Symphony, and to conduct the orchestra and the music program at University High School. That I paid to do all these things as my career, as my living, in San Francisco! For me, it’s a blessing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember when I first moved here, I would literally sit right on that corner where City Hall is, that green patch of grass, kitty-corner to Davies Symphony Hall. I would sit there with my sandwich, my legs crossed on the grass, and I would just stare at Davies and think, and wonder, and get myself going, “It’s there and it’s possible. It’s tangible. It can happen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to KQED Arts’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/bay-brilliant\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Brilliant\u003c/a>, a series celebrating 10 local artists, creatives and makers who are pushing boundaries in 2018. Driven by passion for their own disciplines—music, dance, theater, visual art, performance, writing, illustration and more—these artists are true vanguards paving the way in their respective communities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Bejarano isn’t your average classical conductor. As a tattooed Mexican-American woman holding the baton, she stands out on just about any orchestra’s podium. The thing is: Bejarano’s been on a lot of podiums, all over the world. When she isn’t at home conducting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcivicmusic.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Civic Symphony\u003c/a> or serving as music director for San Francisco University High School, she keeps busy conducting overseas in countries like Russia, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Spain, Venezuela, and the Czech Republic, and with orchestras in the U.S. from Santa Cruz to Baltimore. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s no small feat for someone who grew up in Bell Gardens, the largely minority and low-income city southeast of Los Angeles, where “classical music was not a thing, by any means,” Bejarano says. Add to that a rough coming-out experience, and the numerous times she was told point-blank that she’d never be a successful conductor in the U.S. due to her looks and background, her stature in the classical music world becomes even more impressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, she uses her position to lift up others. Recently, Bejarano invited San Francisco Symphony violinist Eliot Lev, the first openly transgender member of a major American orchestra, to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major with the San Francisco Civic Symphony—an 85-member orchestra that’s among the most diverse in the region. And whether as a teacher, conductor, or director, Bejarano’s approach is the same: “There’s a wonderful magic that comes with inspiring people,” she says, “and knowing how to motivate them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13838912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bejarano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13838912\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-1180x843.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-240x171.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-375x268.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1-520x371.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoHoriz1-1.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Bejarano. \u003ccite>(Jean Melesaine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was your introduction to classical music? Did it feel exclusionary to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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How many women exist in this country or outside of the country in this field?” If I’d have done that kind of homework and seen the statistics, or lack thereof, I might’ve been dissuaded and been like, “Whoa, this is gonna be more of a battle than I’m ready for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I didn’t look at any of that. I didn’t look at the lack of females in the field. I just knew that I was motivated, I was thirsty for it, and I was passionate about conducting and being a leader. So I just went for it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13838911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-800x1120.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bejarano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13838911\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-857x1200.jpg 857w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-960x1344.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-240x336.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-375x525.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4-520x728.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert4.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Bejarano. \u003ccite>(Artemisia Luk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What kind of challenges and obstacles have you faced?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many. Maybe too many. But it’s those obstacles and all those “no”s that I’ve been told that I’ve used to my advantage. Every time I was told no, and every time I got a letter saying “thank you but no thank you,” or every time I was told I couldn’t make it as a conductor in this country, I would take that energy and use it to motivate me and to keep that fire burning even brighter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all the people that mentored me were good to me. Not at all. There is a thing that people call tough love. I would just call it tough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was your coming-out story?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, that’s not a pretty story. I was outed when I was 13, 14 years old. I told a cousin in confidence and he turned around and told my mother. My family being Mexican, very religiously driven and culturally driven, the woman is supposed to get married, be a wife, be a mother, bear children and so forth—I’m like the complete opposite of that. I was defying our culture, I was defying our religion. And then they were immigrants as well, so there was just that fear behind it. My mother and family did not take it well whatsoever. It took them years, years, \u003cem>years\u003c/em> to get over it. And then by the time I was in college, when a bunch of my cousins came out, they were just like, “Okay, I guess it’s fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does it feel now to not just have these accomplishments and this career, but to be able to help others who may have been told “no” along the way?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m starting my third year with San Francisco Civic Symphony. It’s a full size 85-piece orchestra; they’re the oldest community orchestra this side of the Mississippi. They’ve been around for over 80 years. The thing about that orchestra, it is a community orchestra, and you get an array of talent. So, for me as a director, it’s like, how do I make it all-inclusive for everyone?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, no matter if it’s a professional orchestra, a community orchestra, as a director, my philosophy when I work with musicians is not to demand and insist, but to motivate and inspire. And when I have that kind of energy with my musicians, it keeps them on their toes. It keeps them on the edge of their seat and it keeps them in tune. No one wants to listen as someone berate them over and over again, and just hammer over them how awful they are or they’re not getting this right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a wonderful magic that comes with inspiring people and knowing how to motivate them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13838914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-800x1120.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Bejarano.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13838914\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-857x1200.jpg 857w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-960x1344.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-240x336.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-375x525.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2-520x728.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/JBejaranoVert2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Bejarano. \u003ccite>(Jean Melesaine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does living in San Francisco inform your work and what you do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve lived here 11 years now and I love this city. I absolutely love this city. Let me tell you what this city means to me. After I graduated from UC Davis, I had a plan to go to Europe conducting in Romania and Italy, travel around Europe, come back, and drive to South Carolina, because I got accepted to start my DMA in orchestral conducting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long story short, I was offered a job at the Peninsula Symphony down in Los Altos. Assistant conductor, Peninsula Symphony, four-year contract. And it paid $2,000 a year. After taxes, $224 a month. I had 24 hours to decide if I wanted to start my Doctorate like I’d planned, or be conducting in the Bay Area on $2,000 a year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And San Francisco, as a kid, has always been my dream city. For me it was like gay Disneyland. I’ve always wanted to be here, but it seemed like my life was never going to bring me here—until this position came to fruition. So, I reached out to my mentors. I was like, “What would you do? 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