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durée : 00:12:26 - Adriana Mater : Kaija Saariaho - Esa-Pekka Salonen - La première mondiale du deuxième opéra de Kaija Saariaho a été enregistrée au Davies Symphony Hall en juin 2023, quelques jours seulement après la mort prématurée du compositeur.

durée : 00:12:26 - Adriana Mater : Kaija Saariaho - Esa-Pekka Salonen - La première mondiale du deuxième opéra de Kaija Saariaho a été enregistrée au Davies Symphony Hall en juin 2023, quelques jours seulement après la mort prématurée du compositeur.

durée : 00:12:26 - Adriana Mater : Kaija Saariaho - Esa-Pekka Salonen - La première mondiale du deuxième opéra de Kaija Saariaho a été enregistrée au Davies Symphony Hall en juin 2023, quelques jours seulement après la mort prématurée du compositeur.

Esa-Pekka Salonen took over the helm of the San Francisco Symphony in 2020 from Michael Tilson Thomas. Both men have had a major impact on symphonic music in California, and Salonen is one of the three guiding figures – with the LA Phil's Gustavo Dudamel and the San Diego Symphony's Rafael Payare – behind the California Festival, a statewide celebration of music that launched in November. James Jolly spoke to Salonen at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco following an afternoon concert, as part of the California Festival, in November.

This week's edition of Copeland's Corner, with featured Headliners Ngaio Bealum, Chris Riggins & Tom Sawyer. Tune in they chime in with Brian discuss this week's hot talk topics. Follow Ngaio on Instagram: @Ngaio420Follow Chris on Instagram: @ChrisRigginsComedyCheck out more from Tom Sawyer on his website: TomSawyerVoices.com--For more from Brian...Visit his website: www.BrianCopeland.comFollow on Social Media:  Twitter & Instagram - @BrianCopieEmail: BrianCopelandShow@Gmail.com--Copeland's Corner is Created, Hosted, & Executive Produced by Brian Copeland. This Show is Recorded & Mixed by Charlene Goto with Go-To Productions. Visit Go-To Productions for all your  Podcast & Media needs.

This week's edition of Copeland's Corner, with featured Headliners Don Reed & Greg Proops. Tune in they chim in with Brian discuss this week's hot talk topics. Catch Greg Proops currently touring with "Whose Live Anyway?".  Dates and other news at GregProops.comDon Reed's "The Never Too Late Show" is currently running at The Marsh in San Francisco. --For more from Brian...Visit his website: www.BrianCopeland.comFollow on Social Media:  Twitter & Instagram - @BrianCopieEmail: BrianCopelandShow@Gmail.com--Copeland's Corner is Created, Hosted, & Executive Produced by Brian Copeland. This Show is Recorded & Mixed by Charlene Goto with Go-To Productions. Visit Go-To Productions for all your  Podcast & Media needs.

This week's edition of Copeland's Corner, with featured Headliners Greg Proops, Don Reed & Ronn Vigh. Tune in they chim in with Brian discuss this week's hot talk topics. Catch Greg Proops currently touring with "Whose Live Anyway?".  Dates and other news at GregProops.comDon Reed's "The Never Too Late Show" is currently running at The Marsh in San Francisco. Visit RonnVigh.com for the latest on Ronn's comedy schedule. --For more from Brian...Visit his website: www.BrianCopeland.comFollow on Social Media:  Twitter & Instagram - @BrianCopieEmail: BrianCopelandShow@Gmail.com--Copeland's Corner is Created, Hosted, & Executive Produced by Brian Copeland. This Show is Recorded & Mixed by Charlene Goto with Go-To Productions. Visit Go-To Productions for all your  Podcast & Media needs.

On the road again Welcome to What's The Matter With Me? Podcast S6, Ep. 45 “San Diego Trip” In this episode, I'm on the road again for the first time in what feels like a long time. My wife and I flew to San Diego to attend her company's year-end holiday party. For the first time, I flew with my wheelchair. I got frisked and swabbed lot, but I didn't miss my flights, so it evened out and I made it home in one piece. It was not without hiccups, but we managed to have a pretty good trip overall, and I'm looking forward to traveling again in tyhe future. Booze Only Yankee Swap IV It's Swap Time We came back to town and had the Booze Only Yankee Swap. The next day, we took the kids to see the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra's holiday concert. There's some sound effects in this episode, like a plane taking off and some other stuff, but I tried to keep it to an absolute minimum, I swear. Shout-outs Shout-outs to Empress Nami who wrote in to say, "I listened to WTMWM on my commute in. The ending....so many sound effects! I was laughing so much." Sometimes I'm just communing with Roy, who taught me how to do audio production. Roy always encouraged me to use more sound effects. Hey MOMA, do you have the what's the matter with me? Podcast? Forking Hell They think I only ordered one fork Descended From Royalty I took the kids to eat at Taco Bell and we met a stranger San Diego Trip We flew to San Diego I made a recording just outside the airport terminal At The Company Holiday Party I sat down at the table for the holiday party and it turned out to be the adult table because the CSO sat across the table and the CEO sat down next to me. Which was kind of *gulp*-inducing but they were nice people and they listened to me when I told them how great my wife was. The people at the company have an impressive track record of creating medicines. I saw the lab and it was a big glassed in structure at the core of a long rectangular one story building in San Diego I flew back, and they swabbed and frisked me again. The TSA guy said to clean my brace with rubbing alcohol next time. Our Holiday Party ABV 30%+ Booze Only Yankee Swap 1980s STYLE Someone brought Peach Brandy to the Booze Only Yankee Swap and that created a minor kerfuffle. It was the fourth time we've had this party. GARBLED FLYER The graphic design program spat out this garbled flyer and we can post it here because it doesn't list our address, or anything at all, really- it just says, "in" over and over. Trading Up I put in a bottle of Beefeater gin and I ended up with a bottle of Don Julio tequila. My wife traded a bottle of Cazadores for a bottle of Glenfiddich so it was a pretty good exchange for both of us and we very nearly felt bad about it. Someone brought peach Brandy to the booze only Yankee swap and that created a minor kerfluffle Lebovitz spiced nuts & pretzels were a hit. Next time, spicier The hot dogs San Francisco SymphonyYouth Orchestra Holiday Concert We took the kids to see the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra at Davies Symphony Hall. I used my chair and it was totally lucky that we got a handicap space just two blocks away. But, we hadn't charged the chair. We were there to see Kaito play the violin and we had pretty good seats in the first balcony at stage right. We had a good view looking down over the orchestra, and from our seats you look the conductor in the face as they played.

 Memorial for Juan Pablo GutierrezSaturday March 26, 2022 4:30pm-7:30pmMission Neighborhood Center 362 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA Between 18th and 19th StreetsJuan Pablo Gutiérrez - A Life RememberedRSVP at juanpablogutierrez1950@gmail.combefore Monday March 21, 2022Limited in-person admittance due to COVID precautions Protective masking and vaccinations are requested for everyone's safetyLos muertos no se venden, pero sí se recuerdan! El Colectivo del Rescate CulturalArtwork: Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, Tres Hermanas, 2016; Calaca Con Big Headdress, 2016 Photo: LA Campos de la Garza, 2012ON BEHALF OF OUR DEAR FRIEND, JUAN PABLE GUTIERREZ WE ARE RECASTING HIS PODCAST:As the Executive Director of the Collectivo Rescate Cultural, Juan Pablo has organized and presented  the Dia de Los Muertos Procession in the Mission District of San Francisco for 39 years. November 2, 2021  will mark the 40th Anniversary of the  Dia De Los Muertos Procession. Due to the protections necessary because of Covid-19, this year he has curated a drive by procession at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall  where very large lithographs representing the Aztec stages of death will be exhibited for the public to enjoy.Juan Pablo discusses the importance of protecting  our culture,  language, and  rituals as a way of maintaining our communal spiritual health.   Since the Procession's inception, he has not sought or accepted corporate sponsorships because of his firm conviction to refrain from  "selling our dead." Drive or walk by Davies Symphony Hall  on November 2, 2021 to honor our ancestors, enjoy stunning lithographs, and support the 40th Anniversary of the Dia De Los Muertos Procession. 

This week, we present an archival City Arts & Lectures program recorded in 2010 with the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, in conversation with Roy Eisenhardt. Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu dedicated his life to fighting for basic civil and human rights for all. Born a teacher's son in South Africa, Tutu followed his father's path and taught for several years before studying theology.  From there, he became the first Black general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, and then the Archbishop of Cape Town.  In 1997, Nelson Mandela asked him to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the abolition of apartheid.   Archbishop Tutu presided over the ordination of his daughter Mpho Tutu into the Anglican priesthood in 2004.  This program, recorded at Davies Symphony Hall on March 17, 2010, was just after the publication of a book they wrote together, “Made for Goodness, And Why This Makes All the Difference”.   Desmond Tutu died on December 26, 2021, at the age of 90.

In this show, we celebrate the synchronicity that this episode was recorded on the International Day of Peace. Fittingly, we were honored to speak with two people who are each holding a beautiful vision of how peace can grow out of this global moment of polarity and division. In the first half hour we talk with Michael Lindfield, board member of Meditation Mount in Ojai, CA. In the second half of the show, we hear from peace advocate and poet Mandy Kahn, who reads from one of her recent works.About our guests: Michael Lindfield has studied and applied the Ageless Wisdom teachings and been involved in Creative Meditation since the late 1960s through an affiliation with Sundial House in England (a sister group of Meditation Mount). He is a highly regarded consultant and coach with over 45 years of international experience in helping individuals and organizations unleash the creativity of the human spirit to meet the urgent needs of our times and the compelling call of a more just and joyful future. Michael is author of ‘The Dance of Change: an Eco-Spiritual Approach to Transformation' (Penguin Books 1986) and numerous articles featured in psychology, education and business journals. He is also co-founder of The Science of Group Work Initiative and a member of the Community of Living Ethics in Umbria, Italy.Mandy Kahn is a poet and peace advocate based in Los Angeles. She is the author of two poetry collections, with a third forthcoming in 2022. Her work is included in The Best American Poetry anthology series and she is the subject of the feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn. She presented a program of peace-building interactive poems at the Getty Museum in 2019. She is the writer-in-residence at Manly P. Hall's Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, where she teaches a free weekly online class on the nature of peace called Peace Class and presents a series of peace-building concerts called I LIKE PEACE. She has given readings at Cambridge University, the London Review Bookshop and Shoreditch House in the UK, at Motto in Berlin, at Colette in Paris, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and at the New School in New York, and has been interviewed by BBC Radio, Pacifica Radio, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Flaunt Magazine and Issue Magazine. She is the 2018 recipient of the Shakespeare Prize in Poetry.

This week we catch up with Bay Area native, early music scholar, and soprano http://www.michele-kennedy.com (Michele Kennedy) on everything from her early days singing with the San Francisco Girls Chorus to her triumphant return to the Davies Symphony Hall stage as a soloist.   We manage to avoid embarrassing stories from her collegiate a cappella days at Yale (where she sang with Giacomo) but we do manage to veer the conversation into her fascinating performances of composers like Florence Price, and premiers of new string arrangements of Harry T. Burleigh’s spirituals with the Gold Coast Chamber Ensemble.  http://www.inunisonpodcast.com/episodes/s03e02#transcript (Episode transcript) Music Excerpts “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJWjv_9k0sI (Rejoice, Greatly)” from Handel’s Messiah, performed by the http://www.dessoff.org/ (Dessoff Choirs) under the direction of http://malcolmjmerriweather.com/biography/ (Malcolm J. Merriweather) “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9cZv9A8h50 (O virtus sapientiae)” by Hildegard of Bingen, performed by the https://www.sfgirlschorus.org (San Francisco Girls Chorus) under the direction of https://www.sfgirlschorus.org/valerie-sainte-agathe (Valérie Sainte-Agathe) “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLbfL9DtNNs (Rejouyssons nous)” by Cypriano de Rore, performed by https://trioeos.com/ (Trio Eos) “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMChQwQ8vYU&t=32s (Cor Mio)” by Salamone Rossi, performed by https://www.kaleidoscopevocalensemble.com/ (Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble) “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbXY48om0s (Sunset)" by Florence Price, pianist https://www.masterworks.org/dr-bryan-baker-bio (Bryan Baker);  hosted by http://www.sfchoral.org/site/ (San Francisco Choral Society) “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJEHW86qSYg (Manhã de Carnaval)” by Luiz Bonfá, arr. http://www.debranagy.com/ (Debra Nagy), performed by Debra Nagy, oboe; https://lesvoixhumaines.org/en/melisande-corriveau-en/ (Mélisande Corriveau), viola da gamba; https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Milnes-Eric.htm (Eric Milnes), harpsichord “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9StYzqaKME (My Lord, What a Morning)” trad., arr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Burleigh (H.T. Burleigh); strings arranged by https://music.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/zakarias-grafilo (Z. Grafilo), performed by the https://www.gccpmusic.com/ (Gold Coast Chamber Ensemble) Episode references https://www.michele-kennedy.com/ (Michele Kennedy, Soprano) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqcyZN0Kbgo2bRL5EjXQdGQ (Michele Kennedy - YouTube) http://trioeos.com/press/ (Trio Eos) https://www.loreleiensemble.com/ (Lorelei Ensemble) https://www.kaleidoscopevocalensemble.com/ (Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble) https://www.sfgirlschorus.org/ (San Francisco Girls Chorus) http://www.sfchoral.org/site/ (San Francisco Choral Society) https://www.gccpmusic.com/ (Gold Coast Chamber Ensemble) https://www.sfgirlschorus.org/blog/2020/11/6/postcard-from-sfgc-alum-michele-kennedy (SF Girls Chorus postcard) https://www.amazon.com/Spirituals-Harry-T-Burleigh-Voice/dp/0739045261 (The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh) Theme Song: https://music.apple.com/us/album/mr-puffy/1457011536?i=1457011549 (Mr. Puffy) by Avi Bortnik, arr. by Paul Kim. Performed by http://www.dynamicjazz.dk/ (Dynamic)

As the Executive Director of the Collectivo Rescate Cultural, Juan Pablo has organized and presented  the Dia de Los Muertos Procession in the Mission District of San Francisco for 39 years. November 2, 2021  will mark the 40th Anniversary of the  Dia De Los Muertos Procession. Due to the protections necessary because of Covid-19, this year he has curated a drive by procession at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall  where very large lithographs representing the Aztec stages of death will be exhibited for the public to enjoy.Juan Pablo discusses the importance of protecting  our culture,  language, and  rituals as a way of maintaining our communal spiritual health.   Since the Procession's inception, he has not sought or accepted corporate sponsorships because of his firm conviction to refrain from  "selling our dead." Drive or walk by Davies Symphony Hall  on November 2, 2021 to honor our ancestors, enjoy stunning lithographs, and support the 40th Anniversary of the Dia De Los Muertos Procession. 

"Arts and culture really drive San Francisco. A lot of folks think of San Francisco as being a tech city, which we are. But the number one industry in San Francisco is tourism. And there would be no tourism in San Francisco if it weren't for arts and culture." Author: John CaldonThis week's show is focused on our arts and culture sector which generates $1.45 billion in annual economic activity in the City / County of San Francisco and supports over 39 thousand jobs. In this episode, our featured voice is John Caldon, the Managing Director San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center. The San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center opened in 1932 with the production of Tosca by the San Francisco Opera. The "War Memorial" name commemorates all the people who served in the First World War. It is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. It covers 7.5 acres in San Francisco's Civic Center Historic District and totals 7,500 seats among its multiple performance venues.The Center is comprised of the War Memorial Opera House, Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, Herbst Theatre, The Green Room, The Wilsey Center (Atrium Theater, Education Studio), and Harold L. Zellerbach Rehearsal Hall, the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center (SFWMPAC) is a landmark cultural institution owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco. The resident performing arts organizations are the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and San Francisco Performances. 

Heidi Trefethen is a French Hornist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and sought-after sound engineer, Heidi Trefethen shuttles back and forth across continents frequently, in roles both onstage and off. As a hornist, she has performed in numerous ensembles and venues in Italy, the UK, Bosnia, Thailand, Guatemala, Israel Turkey, and the US, including the LA Philharmonic, the JazzUp Festival in Italy, Cleveland's Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall and SFJAZZ's Miner Hall. As a live sound engineer, she has worked with the likes of Shawn Colvin, Meshell N'degeocello, Odetta, Ellis Paul, Joan Baez, Joan Armatrading, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Holly Near, John Stewart of the Kingston Trio, Dar Williams, Al Stewart, Jane Siberry and Lucy Kaplansky, often at the legendary Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, CA. Heidi can be often seen behind the sound boards at SFJAZZ where she was recently recruited as a FOH and A2 engineer.  As a recording engineer, she studied at the California Recording Institute’s intensive sound engineering program. An internship at the historic Coast Recorders and a job at Rocket Lab mastering house had her working side-by-side with technical heavyweights John Cuniberti, Dan Alexander and Michael Romanowski. Heidi’s engineering credits include Tammy Hall’s “Blue Soul,” Jessica Jones and Mark Taylor’s “Live at the Freight” 2011, Lucy Kaplansky’s "Kaplansky Sings Kaplanksy," 2000, Michael Burles' currently "Untitled Recording" 2017, Nestler and Hawtin's "Duality" 2014, co-engineered with Bryan Bell, Herbie Hancock’s first engineer, and full production of Anne Rainwater's solo piano recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations. In this episode, we discuss: SF Jazz French Horn Freight & Salvage Teaching Learning to Evolve Mentoring Women's Audio Mission Covid's Effect The Audio Pro Advantage The Importance of Recording & Music Overdubbing at a Young Age Education Open Mic Nights Live Sounds Producing Session Mindset Communication Style Struggles w/The Mormon Church Empathy Women in Audio Sexism Bay Area Speaking Italian Making a Living Not Working for Free Links and Show Notes Heidi's Site: www.heiditrefethen.com Linkedin Profile: https://bit.ly/39ujk1L Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heiditrefethen/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/heiditrefethen WCA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/working_class_audio Support WCA - Go Ad-Free! https://glow.fm/workingclassaudio/ Connect with Matt on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboudreau/ Current sponsors & promos: https://bit.ly/2WmKbFw Working Class Audio Journal: https://amzn.to/2GN67TP Credits: Guest: Heidi Trefethen Host: Matt Boudreau  WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell  Announcer: Chuck Smith Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau & Matt Boudreau Additional Music: The License Lab

Karen and Georgia cover the murder of Cecelia Bowers and the Alcatraz Escape of 1962.

Gay Men's Chorus executive director Chris Verdugo and 18-year member Michael Tate visit the San Francisco Chronicle, to talk about the Chorus' past, present and future with hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight. The chorus is in the middle of Season 42, with several concerts including Penned in Pink at Davies Symphony Hall on March 26. Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Music is "The Tide Will Rise" by the Sunset Shipwrecks off their album "Community." Cable car bell ringing by eight-time champion Byron Cobb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. This week, Jenee Darden sits down with author Mimi Lok to talk about three events happening around the Bay this weekend. 5 Dedicated to Ozu at BAMPFA on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. “ When I Remember I See Red” at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento through January 26 Ghostbusters with SF Symphony on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Davies Symphony Hall

1988– Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. Steve Jobs shows off the NeXT Computer featuring the Motorola 68030 microprocessor at 25 MHz. The computer introduces several new features including optical storage disk, voice recognition, and object-oriented languages. The system came with the NeXT STep operating system and cost $6,500. NeXT computer sold around 50,000 […]

Enjoy the podcast? Support the show with a one-time or monthly donation via PayPal (thank you!)Today we are bringing you an interview I conducted back in 2017 with GRAMMY award-winning pianist & composer Taylor Eigsti for a book that I was working on at the time. The book never came to fruition, so I've decided to share the audio here on the podcast. We discuss his early musical life, the 'prodigy' label, the GRAMMY awards, his favorite venues to play at, and Taylor shares an incredible story about McCoy Tyner and the Golden State Warriors.You can find Taylor's music, tour dates and more on his website: https://www.tayjazz.com/About Taylor (courtesy of https://www.tayjazz.com):"New York-based pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti started playing the piano when he was four years old. Growing up in Menlo Park, CA, Eigsti was quickly labeled a prodigy, and has since released 7 albums as a bandleader, in addition to appearing on over 50 albums as a sideman. Eigsti has garnered multiple individual GRAMMY Award nominations over the years for his work as a recording artist and composer, including Best Instrumental Composition, and Best Jazz Instrumental Solo. Recently, Eigsti also co-wrote a featured composition with Don Cheadle for the 2017 GRAMMY-winning soundtrack to the motion picture “Miles Ahead”. Over the past 30 years, Eigsti has had the good fortune of performing, touring or recording with such luminaries as Dave Brubeck, Chris Botti, Joshua Redman, Sting, John Mayer, Esperanza Spalding, Chick Corea, Terence Blanchard, Joshua Bell, Snarky Puppy, Vanessa Williams, David Benoit, Chris Potter, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Julian Lage, Marian McPartland, Stefon Harris, McCoy Tyner, Lisa Fischer, Joey DeFrancesco, Red Holloway, James Moody, Ernestine Anderson, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Becca Stevens, Charles McPherson, The Clayton Brothers, Eldar, Dianne Schuur, Joe Lovano, Ambrose Akinmusire, Hank Jones, The Brubeck Brothers, and Frederica Von Stade, among many others. Eigsti has travelled internationally quite extensively with his trio and quartet, and also has been a frequent and integral part of the regular touring bands of Chris Botti, Eric Harland Voyager, Gretchen Parlato, Kendrick Scott Oracle, and Sachal Vasandani. Eigsti's career has involved much global touring, and he has performed at many premiere venues throughout the world, including the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Salle Pleyel, Red Rocks Amphitheater, Royal Festival Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Olympia Hall, Massey Hall, Lincoln Center, Davies Symphony Hall, and many top festivals including Montreal Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Singapore Mosaic Music Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Stockholm Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, Quito Jazz Festival, Jakarta Jazz Festival, Sydney Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival, and many more performances worldwide, including a private performance for former President Bill Clinton. Eigsti has also been featured numerous times in various television specials, NPR appearances, commercials, and composed the theme music to the motion picture "Detachment" (2011) starring Oscar-winner Adrien Brody, collaborating on the score with the Newton Brothers. This past year, Eigsti was also featured on a television special with Chris Botti for PBS’s “Great Performances”. In addition to leading and performing with various small ensembles, Eigsti frequently has had the opportunity to work with, compose for and orchestrate music for various symphony orchestras, and has written an extensive repertoire of music for orchestra and jazz ensemble. Various soloist Support the show (http://berniesbootlegs.com/support)

Sasha Berliner is a musician, composer, producer, and band leader from San Francisco, CA. Sasha started playing drums at eight years old. She pursued a jazz emphasis at her high school, Oakland School for the Arts, where she picked up the vibraphone at age 13. She is an alumni of the SF Jazz High School All Stars Orchestra and the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. She headlined festivals like the Atlanta Jazz Festival, NYC Winter Jazz Festival, and the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, by the age of 19. In that same year, she was deemed one of SF Jazz's 10 Rising Female Instrumentalists for 2018 and was featured by Hot House Jazz Magazine, The SF Jazz Education Center, PBS News Hour, NPR, NBC Boston, and The New York Times for both her musicianship and her activism. She was a finalist for the International Hit Like A Girl program in the Concert Percussion category as well as the cover story for Tom Tom Magazine’s Fall 2018 publication. She was also the first US winner of the LetterOne “Rising Stars” Jazz Award 2018, which enabled her to bring her group to several prominent jazz festivals across the US and Canada. Sasha has gone on to perform at venues such as the Fox Theater, The Jazz Gallery, Treasure Island Music Festival, Davies Symphony Hall, the Jazz Education Network Conference, the SF Jazz Miner Auditorium, and Davies’ Symphony Hall. She has had the honor of sharing the stage with musicians such as Ravi Coltrane, Beck, Vince Lateano, Miles Okazaki, Matt Wilson, and Victor Wooten, performing more recently with award winning drummer-composer Tyshawn Sorey's sextet. She also substitutes for, teaches, and performs with jazz vibraphonist Warren Wolf. Sasha is currently living in New York City. She is attending The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, where she has been a student of vibraphonists Stefon Harris and Chris Dingman. She is an endorsing artist for Vater and a faculty member at the MalletLab percussion intensive, where she gives masterclasses and clinics. She is also a prolific writer, fulfilling a Non Fiction writing minor at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and self publishing an array of personal essays, poems, and critiques. Her essay on sexism in the jazz industry, “An Open Letter to Ethan Iverson (And the Rest of the Jazz Patriarchy)”, was shared on PBS News Hour and discussed in tandem with the Winter Jazz Fest discussion panel on sexism, featuring activist Angela Davis. Her next major musical project, Azalea, is projected to release in September 2019. Sasha Berliner also publicly advocates for the We Have Voice organization, vowing to create a non-tolerance and accountability policy for discrimination or harassment based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and violence and abuse, in the performing arts. Thanks for listening and keep thriving! Show notes: www.SpenserLiszt.com/blog/TMP22 Free list of potential tax deductions: www.SpenserLiszt.com/p/TaxDeductions Join the Thriving Musicians closed Facebook group: www.Facebook.com/groups/ThrivingMusician Email questions, comments or nominate a Thriving Musician to spenser@spenserliszt.com Follow Spenser online: Facebook: www.Facebook.com/SpenserLiszt Twitter: www.Twitter.com/SpenserLiszt Instagram: www.Instagram.com/SpenserLiszt

Henry Brant: Ice FieldMichael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony team up with iconoclastic organist Cameron Carpenter to release a one-of-a-kind recording of Henry Brant’s Pulitzer Prize-winning spatial composition, Ice Field. Put on your headphones for a unique Dolby Atmos immersive experience that allows us to hear Brant’s work as it was intended: as a vast acoustical soundscape for 100 players scattered throughout Davies Symphony Hall.  

Nick Platoff is a Trombone player with the San Francisco Symphony. In this episode Nick, who is a Global Shaper just like Julian, talks about the role music & love played in his childhood - and how Burning Man changed his life.  Nick is committed to harnessing the power of music to bring joy and healing to the world.  In September 2016, he joined the San Francisco Symphony as Associate Principal Trombone. Since then, he has had the pleasure of performing over 300 concerts with his first-class colleagues at their home in Davies Symphony Hall and many of the world's great concert halls.  Outside of the symphony work Nick loves making music whenever and wherever possible: "I spend a lot of time composing and recording in my home studio, teaching locally and as guest faculty at the National Orchestral Institute, and performing solo with my loop station and as a member of the Miami-based Nu Deco Ensemble. "

1. Adrian Williams, Executive Dir., The Village Project, which will present its 10th annual Kwanzaa celebration throughout San Francisco, with seven days of community events starting on Dec. 26th, running through January 1st.  The seven day celebration will open at the Museum of the African Diaspora at noon on Friday, December 26th, and continue with an evening celebration at the African American Arts and Culture complex at 7 p.m. The closing celebration will take place at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church on Friday, Jan.1st, 6 pm, with Tia Carroll crooning some down home blues. 415-424-2980, www.thevillageprojectsf.org, www.kwanzaasanfrancisco.com 2. Kheven LaGrone & Artists, Tomye Neal-Madison, William Rhodes, Michael Ross, join us to talk about the exhibit: "I Am San Francisco: (Re)Collecting the Home of Native Black San Franciscans" at the San Francisco Main Library, African American Center, Dec. 12, 2-4 Artist Talks. http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1022007301 3. Dr. Ayodele Nzinga and cast join us to talk about the Lower Bottom Playaz production of Radio Golf at The Flight Deck, 1450 Broadway in Oakland, Dec. 18-Jan. 3, lowerbottomplayaz.com 4. Peabo Bryson speaks about the 20th Annual Colors of Christmas, Dec. 14-15 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Visit sfsymphony.org, 415-864-6000. 

Conrad is a New York based composer who writes opera, symphonic music, chamber music, and music for his ensemble of amplified instruments and voices. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and numerous clubs and alternative performance spaces. Groups performing his music include Brandywine Baroque, Avian Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Louisville, New Jersey, and Indianapolis Symphonies, and the San Francisco Opera Center. You can listen to more of his music at www.conradcummings.com.In our conversation we talk about how he ended up studying at Yale, his experience being in an academic environment at Columbia, and how he works within the opera world.

On today's show, Android is the main topic. There's lots of news related to Google's OS, as well as some stories of tech security breaches to make us more paranoid than we already are. Links from today's show are below: • Update: Google Navigation isn't coming to the iphone just yet • Android market has over 50,000 apps • The Nexus One isn't coming to Verizon, Google Recommends HTC incredible instead • Auto app updates in Android 2.2 • Blippy leaks users' credit card numbers • Photocopiers may be retaining your private documents • Lang Lang plays an iPad at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco

Since I started this segment of my weekly broadcasts, it's been rare that I have just featured prerecorded interviews. I guess I will just have to write the stories :-) That said, this week I will feature a segment from an interview with Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell, a member of Sweet Honey in the Rock, who performed this past weekend at SFJAZZ. Yes, they were marvelous! Dressed in lovely black flared skirts, some of the women in boots, the tops jackets, tunics or two-piece affairs. They took us on an American journey, a soul journey, a cleansing and thoughtprovoking often painful journey during the concert at the lovely Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. There were empty seats in the orchestra. I don't know what it looked like in the balcony--it would have been nice if people were invited down to fill in the space, but it was full nonetheless. The extended set, which began late to accommodate those of us wading through the Love Fest ending just outside the doors on the streets of San Francisco's Civic Center, took many selections from the groups 35 year old songbook as well as their latest CD: Experience 101. The concert was co-sponsored by the San Francisco Links, an organization that offers scholarships to girls for college. When I went backstage I met a few of the singers and other fans, some whom I knew. I think I danced back to BART. It was a great evening! After the prerecorded interview, I spoke to Tracey Nails-Bell, owner of A Diamond in the Rough, an image consultancy which works with women reentering society, others who have economic hardships, struggling single female headed households, who want to do something with their lives, but might need guidance and support getting there.

October is Maafa Awareness Month and today we'll be joined in the studio by David Roach, CEO of the Oakland International Film Festival, which opens with Baayan Bakari's latest film, "Equinox," Thursday, October 9, at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland. We are joined by special guest this first hour by Mama Imahkas, who over 20 years ago repatriated to Ghana and has been creating ceremonies to welcome Africans on their return to the Motherland, the land of our origin. Visit oneafricaghana.com and livinginblack.com. For information about the Oakland Film Festival visit www.oiff.org for a listing of all the films and special workshops, lectures and parties. We'll also be joined by Keith Hopkins, one of the artists featured in the Maafa Commemoration Exhibit at Prescott Joseph Center, 920 Peralta Street in Oakland. The exhibit is up through the end of October. October 3, the exhibit opens and can be viewed before the play, Ebony and Johnny, which begins at 7 p.m., and during intermission. During the week, the organization is open 9-5 daily. Our featured vocalist this week is Ajuana Black from her CD: "Ajuana Black: A Soulful Journey." We'll play a couple of tunes. You can catch Ajuana and her band at Solf Notes Jazz Lounge and Restaurant tonight, 355 19th St., Oakland,(510) 444-7587, October 3, 9 p.m. in downtown Oakland. Visit http://wandaspicks.com for more information about what's going on in the San Francisco Bay. We'll close with an excerpt from Runoko Rashidi interview which we were unable to upload on the Wednesday segment of Wanda's Picks. Keep a listen out for the interview with Dr. Ysaye M Barnwell with Sweet Honey in Rock. They'll be at SFJAZZ Saturday, October 4, 8 p.m. at Davies Symphony Hall, Grove and Van Ness in San Francisco. You can check them out after the Rashidi lecture at 4 p.m. at the African Children's Advanced Learning Center, 959 33rd Street, Oakland.

This week we will have a live interview with musician/composer, Wallace Roney, who will be opening the San Francisco Jazz Festival, as a part of the "Miles From India" project. Roney, a protege of Davis, will offer listeners rare insight into the artist, the project and his own creative process. Last year, the concert was a hit and sold out quickly, so it has been moved to a larger venue, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, Grove and Van Ness). Visit www.sfjazz.org From the archives will feature rare audio interviews from artists and revolutionary thinkers I've interviewed in the past ten or so years (2008-1998). Each show will be just an hour, but in that hour these artists and culture workers will share perspectives on life I treasure as I'm sure you will.