Podcasts about Street Symphony

School funding measures are passing across Southern California. If you're planning on driving this afternoon, watch out for Thanksgiving weekend traffic. And in L.A., a day of music is coming to Skid Row on Friday, December 6 - and the nonprofit Street Symphony needs volunteers to help. Plus, more.Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comSupport the show: https://laist.com

A composting program at The Wesley School helps the planet, with an added benefit: teaching kids to be hopeful about participating in climate action. The nonprofit Street Symphony will turn Skid Row into a music festival and community resource fair on December 10 for its Re/Sound Festival. A new exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum showcases the work of the trailblazing photographer “Kali,” whose psychedelic prints of SoCal life weren't appreciated until long after her death.

We are back with the vibes! In this episode, Sauce sits down with Grammy-nominated Producer Kangaroo 809. Sauce and Kangaroo kick the episode off by discussing the perspective of being open-minded and Honest. Sauce then transitions into learning how Kangaroo started in music, working with Don Trip, getting placements with Dave East, working with BET, relationship with Street Symphony, and More! Podcast Platforms:  https://linktr.ee/Lostinthesauce5Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/sauceville_615/Pass the Aux Segment - Yours Truly Jai - Letter To You (Rough)https://on.soundcloud.com/KGTWCWiDy3rGNNr98

"In choir we have a chance to learn to embody a different culture through its language. When you're singing pieces in another language, there's a moment where you have to feel that you speak that language if only for a few words, if only a few moments. I think that has the capacity to create a kind of empathy regardless of whether that's your culture or not. To embody it does create this empathy that I really believe in as a way to make our world a little closer for the right reasons."Indian-American composer Reena Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, and brings communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces. Esmail's life and music was profiled on Season 3 of PBS Great Performances series Now Hear This, as well as Frame of Mind, a podcast from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Esmail divides her attention evenly between orchestral, chamber and choral work. She has written commissions for ensembles including the Los Angeles Master Chorale,  Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Kronos Quartet, and her music has featured on multiple Grammy-nominated albums, including The Singing Guitar by Conspirare, BRUITS by Imani Winds, and Healing Modes by Brooklyn Rider. Many of her choral works are published by Oxford University Press.Esmail is the Los Angeles Master Chorale's 2020-2025 Swan Family Artist in Residence, and was Seattle Symphony's 2020-21 Composer-in-Residence. She also holds awards/fellowships from United States Artists, the S&R Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Kennedy Center.Esmail holds degrees in composition from The Juilliard School (BM'05) and the Yale School of Music (MM'11, MMA'14, DMA'18). Her primary teachers have included Susan Botti, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Christopher Rouse and Samuel Adler. She received a Fulbright-Nehru grant to study Hindustani music in India. Her Hindustani music teachers include Srimati Lakshmi Shankar and Gaurav Mazumdar, and she currently studies and collaborates with Saili Oak. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Finding Common Ground: Uniting Practices in Hindustani and Western Art Musicians explores the methods and challenges of the collaborative process between Hindustani musicians and Western composers.Esmail was Composer-in-Residence for Street Symphony (2016-18) and is currently an Artistic Director of Shastra, a non-profit organization that promotes cross-cultural music connecting music traditions of India and the West.She currently resides in her hometown of Los Angeles, California.To get in touch with Reena, you can find her on Instagram (@reenaesmail) or check out her website: https://www.reenaesmail.com.Choir Fam wants to hear from you! Check out the Minisode Intro episode from September 16, 2022, to hear how to share your story with us. Email choirfampodcast@gmail.com to contact our hosts.Podcast music from Podcast.coPhoto in episode artwork by Trace Hudson from Pexels

Ray Daniels, "The Culture Referee", & Co-Host Tamira Smith sit down with, Grammy Award winning producer , Street Symphony. Street breaks down the difference between a Record Producer & Beat Producer & gives insight about working with Lecrae. This show will prove to be very informative for people interested in production . Thank You For Watching!! Don't Forget to LIKE & SUBSCRIBE. #musicinsider #atlanta #motivation #raydaniels #fyp #podcast #podcasts

When a virtuoso violinist realizes he has yet to develop his own artistic voice, nor any idea of how to accomplish that task, he is face with a choice: continue a lonely descent into angst, or learn to say "yes". Here's the story of how he chose the latter and developed a powerful friendship in the process. You can find Vijay's album "When the Violin" here. You can find out more about "Street Symphony" here. You can find Steve Lopez's book "The Soloist" here.

Vijay Gupta is a violinist and social justice advocate. An esteemed performer, communicator, educator and citizen-artist, Gupta is a leading advocate for the role of the arts and music to heal, inspire, provoke change, and foster social connection. Vijay is the founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a non-profit organization providing musical engagement, dialogue and teaching artistry for homeless and incarcerated communities in Los Angeles. Vijay is also a 2018 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow.

Vijay Gupta is a violinist and social justice advocate. An esteemed performer, communicator, educator and citizen-artist, Gupta is a leading advocate for the role of the arts and music to heal, inspire, provoke change, and foster social connection. Vijay is the founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a non-profit organization providing musical engagement, dialogue and teaching artistry for homeless and incarcerated communities in Los Angeles. Vijay is also a 2018 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow.

Vijay Gupta is a violinist and social justice advocate. An esteemed performer, communicator, educator and citizen-artist, Gupta is a leading advocate for the role of the arts and music to heal, inspire, provoke change, and foster social connection. Vijay is the founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a non-profit organization providing musical engagement, dialogue and teaching artistry for homeless and incarcerated communities in Los Angeles. Vijay is also a 2018 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow. www.guptaviolin.com @guptaviolin --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artsforthehealthofit/support

✨This is about the healing and humanizing powers of classical music. I spoke with Dustin Seo, a classically trained cellist and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a Los Angeles based non-profit that brings classical music to homeless communities to build connection and human dignity.  ❤️‍ Street Symphony was founded in 2011 by Vijay Gupta, A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice - one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians alike. In 2007, Gupta was one of the youngest violinists to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic, but his path in music took an unexpected turn when he met Nathaniel Ayers — a Juilliard School-trained double bassist whose crippling schizophrenia ended his professional career and left him homeless. Gupta said the following about Ayers: “[Nathaniel] had a more encyclopedic knowledge of music than my professors at Yale. This was his oxygen, this was his survival. A lot of people on Skid Row turned to self-medicating with drugs, but Nathaniel turned to music.” After building a relationship and musical exchange with Ayers, Gupta wanted to do more and bring classical music down from the elite stage of the Disney Hall, to Skid Row, one of the largest and most disenfranchised homeless communities in America. So he founded Street Symphony, to bridge this gap.  ✨ Dustin spoke to me about the work of Street Symphony, and he also happened to played cello for me, which was a treat! He has a totally different perspective on the power and mission of classical music outside the concert halls and his stories of healing and solace from the hard hit Skid Row community were absolutely heart-rending.  We talked about :Music as an equalizing space for human connection, a purveyor of dignity and strength. What music can do when it seems that nothing can help.The role of music in bridging the gap between homeless communities and the rest of the worldThe contrast between the gilded image of classical music and its potential as a measure for social justice.   

On paper, Vijay would seem to be an interesting guest because he is the founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a community of musicians creating spaces of connection for people in reentry from homelessness, addiction and incarceration in Los Angeles. Or because Vijay is a famous speaker, who has a TED Talk (Music is Medicine, Music is Sanity) with millions of views and has spoken at places like the Mayo Clinic, US Psychiatric Congress, and the League of American Orchestras. Or maybe, most notably, because he's a talented musician who was a member of the first violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 12 years (and the youngest violinist to join the orchestra) and who has released multiple albums of his own work. Anyone one of those things would make Vijay an interesting guest and rightfully so. But what I found most interesting about Vijay was how deeply thoughtful he was about life and the human experience, while also having an artistic ability to communicate his thoughts in a way that makes you feel the words as much as hear them. For example, his value of "integrity", which he meant as an ability to live as your whole self in a way that your soul feels safe. As we progressed the discussion, we talked about the impact pain has on our lives and how it often plays this dual role of being the source of our problems but also the source of the answers. It seems the more we can embrace pain and try to understand it, the closer we are to living as our whole selves. Naturally we spent a good bit of time talking about art and the role it plays in Vijay's life and the world. Interestingly Vijay highlighted how art also seems to play this dual role of being a mirror into who we are but also the lens into how we communicate back out to the world. It was particularly cool to hear about his experience playing music for mentally ill people in Skid Row and the way in which classical music from hundreds of years ago can allow them to access insights about their own pain today. This was a really interesting and insightful conversation and I thank Vijay for sharing his perspective and values.

Welcome to the first Mind Over Finger Podcast episode of 2022! There are many exciting things coming up this year, including the Joyful Practice Challenge. Learn more in the intro to this episode! There's no better way to welcome in the new year than with today's special guest: musician, speaker, and citizen-artist Vijay Gupta. His work embodies the belief that the work of artists and citizens is one: to make a daily practice of the world we envision. We cover: His musical path from a childhood adoration for music to his multifaceted professional career today (6:57) What drew him away from the LA Philharmonic toward his work to, as he put it, “show up to the world through performing chamber music” (14:50) How playing Schumann in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility helped to recontextualize his view of the role of musicians to provide humanity with nourishment (19:44) His answer to the question: What is citizenship?, and how he chooses to think of musical currency (23:00) How his views on communicating and the purpose of music influences his approach to playing pieces (alongside the social context of their composition) (24:56) Some ways every musician can go out and serve our own communities (30:05) Diving into the process Vijay is taking to record the Six Bach Sonatas (34:30) Vijay's redefinition of success, the importance of learning how to learn, and his favorite practice room tool (41:12) And finally, the incredible actionable tip that left me speechless (50:19) Vijay is the founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a community of musicians creating spaces of connection for people in reentry from homelessness, addiction and incarceration in Los Angeles. He received the 2018 MacArthur Fellowship for his work as co-founder of the Skid Row Arts Alliance, a consortium dedicated to creating art for – and with – the largest homeless community in America. As an international recitalist, soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician for over 20 years, Vijay has created a multifaceted and holistic career. I am so happy to share this conversation with you.  LINKS: Website: https://guptaviolin.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guptaviolin/ Bandcamp: https://guptaviolin.bandcamp.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGjIVIprbRwiQCV9RBnOl4Q Street Symphony Website: https://www.streetsymphony.org/ Street Symphony Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streetsymph/   MIND OVER FINGER: I encourage you to visit MindOverFinger.com for a plethora of resources on mindful practice and information on how to work with me. Sign up for my newsletter and receive your free guide to a highly productive mindful practice using a metronome! mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindoverfinger https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/   PRACTICING FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE: I'm excited to tell you that Practicing for Peak Performance, my transformative workshop, is now available for download! Go to MindOverFinger.com for access to all the tools that will help you transform your practice, gain confidence in your process, and start performing at your best.  With the purchase of PPP, you gain: Access to all recorded content - over 7 hours of instruction Guidance in effective high-performance systems Detailed handouts   THANK YOU: A HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly, who works really hard to make this podcast as pleasant to listen to as possible for you. Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme.  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Thank you to pianist-singer-song-writer Louise Kelly for the introduction!  You can find out more about Kelly and her creative work by visiting louisekelly.com.

What does “home” sound like to you? For composer Reena Esmail, this was a question of invention, not recollection. Today, she is celebrated for the seamless interplay between her Western and Hindustani influences in her music, but her journey through craft, culture, and creativity was winding and often treacherous. In this episode of HearTOGETHER, composer Reena Esmail joins host Tori Marchiony for a heartfelt conversation about growing up between two cultures and two religions, the toxicity of competition, and the importance of constantly challenging her own worldview. Music in this episode:ESMAIL, Piano Trio - Suzana Bartal - piano, Peter Myers - cello, Vijay Gupta - violinESMAIL, This Love Between Us: Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415, David Hill, conductor -- with Rabindra Goswami, sitar and Ramu Pandit, tablaESMAIL, Take What You Need  - Street Symphony and Street Symphony Chamber Singers -- Shelley Fox, sopranoESMAIL, Interglow: Salastina Music Society - Maia Jasper White - violin  Kevin Kumar - violin Meredith Crawford - viola   Yoshika Masuda - cello HyeJin Kim - piano  Benjamin Smolen - fluteESMAIL, Zeher - Brooklyn Rider - Johnny Gandelsman, violin, Colin Jacobsen, violin, Nicholas Cords, viola, Michael Nicolas, celloThanks to Noel Dior & Tim German, Editorial Council Teng Chen, Audio Engineer 

25 décembre 2021 à 12h sur Radio Pulsar, 95.9FM Poitiers — Le thème de l'émission est consacré à l'limentation, aux repas de fêtes et à la cuisine avec comme invité Florent Quellier, titulaire de la chaire CNRS "Histoire de l'alimentation des mondes modernes", maître de conférences en histoire moderne à l'université de François-Rabelais de Tours, professeur d'histoire moderne à l'Université d'Angers. Sommaire :  Présentation de l'émission Première partie de l'entretien avec Florent Quellier Pause musicale Eat The Rich, Motörhead, 1987 Seconde partie de l'entretien avec Florent Quellier Chronique improvisée par la compagnie Il n'y a pas que les flamants roses qui savent jouer du violon  Pause musicale Street Symphony, Pierres & Fils, 2018 Chronique "marqueurs de territoires" par Pascal Chauchefoin, directeur scientifique de l'Espace Mendès France. Agenda  Homescape Émission présentée par Héloïse Morel et Julien Lefevre. Réalisation : Yann Suraud, Pulsar

Reena Esmail joins us to chat about integrating her Western and Hindustani roots in her composition and throughout her work as artistic director of Shastra. We chat about how she prepares listeners with less experience for musical experiences that are new to them. She speaks about her work as composer-in-residence of Street Symphony, a non-profit organization bringing music to Los Angeles-based homeless and incarcerated populations on Skid Row and beyond. And, we talk about her methods for introducing Western musicians to primarily aural traditions. Indian-American composer Reena Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, and brings communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces. Esmail's work has been commissioned by ensembles including the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Kronos Quartet, Imani Winds, Richmond Symphony, Town Music Seattle, Albany Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Girls Chorus, The Elora Festival, Juilliard415, and Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Upcoming seasons include new work for Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Amherst College Choir and Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and Conspirare. Esmail is the Los Angeles Master Chorale's 2020-2023 Swan Family Artist in Residence, and Seattle Symphony's 2020-21 Composer-in-Residence. Previously, she was named a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Music, and the 2019 Grand Prize Winner of the S & R Foundation's Washington Award. Esmail was also a 2017-18 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow. She was the 2012 Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (and subsequent publication of a work by C.F. Peters). Esmail holds degrees in composition from The Juilliard School (BM'05) and the Yale School of Music (MM'11, MMA'14, DMA'18). Her primary teachers have included Susan Botti, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis and Martin Bresnick, Christopher Rouse and Samuel Adler. She received a Fulbright-Nehru grant to study Hindustani music in India. Her Hindustani music teachers include Srimati Lakshmi Shankar and Gaurav Mazundar, and she currently studies and collaborates with Saili Oak. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Finding Common Ground: Uniting Practices in Hindustani and Western Art Musicians explores the methods and challenges of the collaborative process between Hindustani musicians and Western composers. Esmail was Composer-in-Residence for Street Symphony (2016-18) and is currently an Artistic Director of Shastra, a non-profit organization that promotes cross-cultural music connecting music traditions of India and the West. The transcript for this episode can be found here. For more information about Reena Esmail, please visit her website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

Vijay Gupta believes that the work of the artist and citizen is one: to make a daily practice of the connected, creative, and courageous world we long to live in. Hailed by The New Yorker as “a visionary violinist...one of the most radical thinkers in the unradical world of American classical music” Vijay is an esteemed musician, speaker and thought leader, serving to create spaces of belonging, healing and wholeness through music. He is the Founder of Street Symphony, a non-profit organization that performs free, powerful music events and workshops to Los Angeles communities disenfranchised by homelessness, poverty, and incarceration. In this episode, we discuss loneliness and brokenness, and the power of music to be the catalyst for connection and healing. Vijay shares his origin story as a child prodigy attending the world-renowned Juilliard School of Music, and the weight this title put both figuratively on his shoulders, and literally on his body, as he used food to cope with difficult emotions.Vijay reflects on his first time playing music in homeless shelters in Skid Row, what this experience taught him about humanity, pain, and vulnerability, and how he ultimately ended up founding Street Symphony.Finally, Vijay discusses how he met and formed a relationship with Nathanial Ayers, another Juilliard musician who dropped out due to schizophrenia and became homeless at Skid Row. The story of Nathanial Ayers is portrayed in a Hollywood feature-film, The Soloist, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.For full show notes: https://www.baktashahadi.com/podcastConnect with Vijay GuptaWebsite | Instagram | Street Symphony | YoutubeFollow and Subscribe to Stories of Transformation PodcastInstagram | Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | StitcherCreditsProduced and hosted by: Baktash AhadiAudio Engineering by: Joseph GangemiDigital Marketing & Media by: Katherine AnTheme Music by: Qais EssarArtwork by: Masheed AhadiAdditional Music Credits"Stories from the Sky" by Sid Acharya"Willow Wood" by Alon Peretz"When the Violin" by Vijay Gupta“Mystical Dust” by Mystical Flute

Vijay Gupta, violinist & social justice advocate chats about his musical beginnings and the creation of Street Symphony. guptaviolin.com

#119 - Ben Shirley is a busy man. He's a composer, musician, clean and sober, runner and grateful for every day. He's one of the co-stars of the documentary film Skid Row Marathon and talks about that and more in this week's episode. He's an integral part of Street Symphony in Skid Row, Los Angeles, who help musicians in the area get heard. I'll provide a link for one of his pieces, it's really good! He tells us what he's up to these days, including working on current television music tracks, and more! For all of Ben's info and links, please go to: www.martharunstheworld.com for any comments, questions or suggestions for future shows, please email me at: martharunstheworld@gmail.com 

  After winning the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2019, renowned violinist Vijay Gupta resigned from the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra to devote himself full-time to helping LA's homeless, disenfranchised and incarcerated. Gupta shares with host Giselle Fernandez how he considers himself an "art disrupter" with his nonprofit Street Symphony, proving that LA's most moving and talented musicians can come from any walk of life. Street Symphony was launched on Skid Row after Gupta was introduced to Nathaniel Ayers, a master musician living on the streets who was portrayed by Jamie Foxx in the 2009 film “The Soloist.” Gupta explains that by sharing music with the disenfranchised — and through embracing his Hindu faith — he has found great peace, healing and fulfillment that makes him even more determined to help oppressed communities find and share their artistic human voices.  

The Creatives Over Cocktails crew chops it up with Grammy Award winning producer, Torrance "Street Symphony" Esmond. He talks about how the streets provided cultural influence and the unconventional way he rose in the music industry. He takes us on a journey discussing how his day job fueled his music career and taught him the importance of understanding the value of a dollar. Discussing his unique approach to life, he goes into how essential it is to go after your dreams and how to stay on top of your game.Torrance Esmond, better known by his stage name Street Symphony, is an American record producer and music executive from Memphis, Tennessee. Through his extensive connections, the music whiz yielded his first industry job as VP of A&R at Reach Records, home to Christian Hip-Hop star Lecrae. Under his leadership, he helped to take the recording artist from underground to mainstream. In 2013, the pair scored their first Grammy for “Best Gospel Album” with Street Symphony serving as both a producer and writer. He was then awarded another Grammy two years later for “Best Contemporary Christian Song.” From there, he racked up production credits with 2 Chainz, Meek Mill, G-Eazy, Ludacris, Wale and Dave East, to name a few. The heat-maker added another Grammy-nod under his belt for his work on Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap (“Hussle & Motivate”) in the Best Rap Album category.In 2015, two prestigious events occurred for Street Symphony; he established the Street Symphony Scholarship for aspiring music business students at his alma mater (MTSU) and March 7th was declared Street Symphony Day that he expanded into a weekend of activities in Nashville. He was also nominated for a Distinguished Alumni Award by MTSU in 2018, which recognizes graduates who have reached the highest level of accomplishment in their respective field and possess outstanding integrity and character.While continuing to work with the household names in the industry, he also currently serves as an adjunct professor at MTSU spearheading a new Hip Hop and R&B songwriting class.Street Symphonyhttps://www.instagram.com/iamstreetsymphony/Track of Diehttps://trackordie.com/Whisk & BlendCocktail Enthusiast, Darold Bradley, goes into the science of ice in a cocktail. Brought to you by Great Convo Media https://greatconvo.com/Subscribe: http://www.creativesovercocktails.com/Follow: https://www.instagram.com/coc_podcastLike: https://www.facebook.com/cocpodcastHostsEboné Merrimon https://www.instagram.com/deepsouleb/Brian Sexton https://www.instagram.com/iamspreadluv/Lonnell Matthews https://www.instagram.com/inspirewithlonnell/Audio Architect: Kamaal Malak https://www.instagram.com/kamaalmalak/Music Producer: A.B. Eastwoood https://www.instagram.com/a.b.eastwood/

Musician and composer Benjamin Shirley tasted rock stardom, then hit rock bottom; strung out and homeless on LA’s Skid Row. Salvation came with sobriety, a new found humility and the healing power of music and creativity.Listen to Ben’s music online: benjaminjshirleymusic.com Follow Ben on Twitter: @ben_composerLearn more about LA’s Street Symphony and the The Midnight MissionListen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. Tell us what’s making you smile! Send a voice memo to smile@wondery.com Our theme song is “Smile” by Ryan Innes--Support us by supporting our sponsors!Find quality candidates quickly with Indeed. Use code SMILE at indeed.com/SMILE for a $75 credit.Spark curiosity and kindle creative thinking for the kids in your life with Kiwi Co. Get 50% off your first month, plus free shipping with promo code SMILE at kiwico.com.

Niv Ashkenazi a virtuoso violinist that holds both a B.M and M.M from Julliard school has captivated audiences with his heartfelt musicianship and emotional performances in Europe, The Middle East and across North America. He has made several Carnegie Hall and kennedy center appearance. His conviction that the impact of music serves people beyond the concert stage motivates him to collaborate with projects such as Street Symphony an LA based nonprofit that serves communities disenfranchised by homelessness and incarceration in LA County. His currently involve in the project of "Violins of hope" . In 2019-2020 season he is the first ever artist in residence at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian center. His debut album Niv Ashkenazi Violins of hope recorded at the Soraya was released on March 2020 on Albany Records. It is the first solo album recorded on one of the Violins of hope. It is available on Amazon Spotify and Apple podcast. Avshi (Avshalom) Weinstein third generation Violin maker was trained by his father master violin maker Amnon Weinstein. He began working with his father in their Tel-Aviv atelier back in 1998 as violin-maker and restorer.He was invited to join the CAKA program in Turkey in 2006 and has been staying then since.He opened his own workshop in Istanbul in 2009 where he continues the family tradition.He has also been trained with Master Bow-Maker Daniel Schmidt from Dresden in bow repairs since 2009. Avshalom is the founder of Violin of hope project together with his father. Violin of hope refers to the Weinstein's collection of instruments with unique stories dating back to Jewish musical tradition and Wold War 2. Both father & son collect these instruments and restore them with love and attention and bring them back to life as a concert instruments. Since 2006 Violins of hope were invited by leading orchestra and music festivals in Europe & America to play the music and tell the stories of the people behind the instruments that are not with us anymore. In this episode we are telling the story behind The Violins of Hope.

Listen to "Mphatlhalatsana” by AZURI Street Symphony, a band based out of Johannesburg, South Africa. Lyric Translation HERE (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H1q-Q-Cf8YVGUEz60A-FlbUogeev_8Ck/view?usp=sharing) Check out more from AZURI Street Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEv_9ktpv8k https://www.facebook.com/azuristreetsymphony/ Listen to more Creative Gatherings Artists: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0ueIhu7F-Z0_1V-sYMNWA Join our conversation on our NEW Facebook discussion group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/539977323566387/)! You can support this podcast as well by contributing to our Patreon and get bloopers, early releases, and more! https://www.patreon.com/clinicalbopulations Also, let everyone know you're a bophead by grabbing some swag from the Bop Shop (www.clinicalbopulations.threadless.com)! Share this episode from our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ClinicalBOPulations) to help get the word out. ALSO, if you or someone you know is a songwriter and would like to be featured on this podcast, send us a message on our facebook page! These views do not represent AMTA or CBMT.

Famous musician Billy Joel has said, “I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.” Seeing the humanity in each other is an essential part of sharing music. In this episode, relax to a soothing soundscape of strings, piano, and percussion from works by Claude Debussy, Joe Tompkins, Arvo Pӓrt, and Gustav Mahler. We recommend looking at the stars while you listen to Episode 4. Meet your host, Music Director Michael Sachs.@1:00 Jamey Lamar reflects on meditation, or meditates on reflection. How do musicians listen to their music to understand? “[Mindfulness] is opening yourself up to the world, truly, by stopping all of that inner noise. The same can be true when we stop to listen to a piece of music.”@04:56 Jump to the Debussy, performed by Joyce Yang @08:18 Percussionist Joe Tompkins talks about composing for a place as unique as The Tank, and the experience of driving hours through  Colorado to arrive at the one-of-a-kind recording space. “In my opinion it was like walking into Mad Max beyond the Thunderdome, and saying we’re going to record a piece here in the middle of the desert. You kind of expected Mel Gibson to come around the corner in a crazy truck.”@13:18 Jump to 4Round@23:06 Did you know Arvo Pärt combined numerology and harmony? Vijay Gupta, violinist and founder of Street Symphony, discusses the form of the piece, which is “a kind of musical miracle … that fluttering light that is constant in all of us, all the time.”@26:35 Jump to the Pärt, performed by Vijay Gupta and the Strings Festival Orchestra@37:57 Michael Sachs’ favorite piece of music ever written: Mahler’s Adagietto movement in Symphony No. 5. “Being married to a harpist … I always take this moment to reflect on our many years together, how much we’ve shared, and like this is my love letter to my own wife.”@39:38 Jump to the Mahler, conducted by Brett Mitchell and performed by the Strings Festival Orchestra Pieces PerformedDEBUSSY Préludes - Book 2, No. 5, BruyèresJoyce Yang, PianoPerformed at Strings Music Festival in 2016TOMPKINS 4Round Marc Damoulakis, PercussionJeremy Epp, PercussionJoseph Tomkins, Percussion and ComposerKevin Watkins, PercussionPerformed at The Tank in Rangely, CO in 2018PÄRT Fratres (for Solo Violin, Strings, and Percussion) Vijay Gupta, ViolinStrings Festival Orchestra/Michael Sachs, ConductorPerformed at Strings Music Festival in 2017MAHLER Symphony No. 5 IV. Adagietto Strings Festival Orchestra/Brett Mitchell, ConductorPerformed at Strings Music Festival in 2018About Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado: Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest quality in an intimate mountain setting. Our summer festival includes a genre-spanning lineup featuring classical musicians from the nation’s top orchestras and chart-topping popular contemporary artists, all of whom perform in an intimate, 569-seat Pavilion nestled at the base of Steamboat’s mountains. Outside of our venue, we serve the community with a variety of free programming and an in-school education program called Strings School Days. This offering cultivates music appreciation and ability in Northwest Colorado’s K-12 students.StringsMusicFestival.com/donateFacebook.com/stringsmusicfestivalInstagram @stringsmusicfestival

On a break during the 2019 Artivate Summit at the Kenan Institute for the Arts, Corey Madden interviewed the gathering's keynote speaker, Vijay Gupta, an accomplished violinist and the founder and artistic director of Street Symphony in Los Angeles. Vijay discusses how the discipline that made him a star violinist in his youth combined with a calling to work in and collaborate with underserved communities to form the leader he is today, a recipient of a 2018 MacArthur genius grant and the head of a thriving organization. http://streetsymphony.org/ https://www.uncsa.edu/kenan/creative-catalyst/artivate.aspx   New Template

A child-prodigy violinist, Vijay Gupta had performed in top international venues by the time he reached his teens; he started college at the age of 13, finishing with a pre-med bachelor’s; and by 19 he was playing in the first violins section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, having already earned an MFA from the Yale School of Music. Yet he gradually realized that mere excellence did not suffice. He wanted his art to be of service to the community around him. He set his sights on one specific community just down the street from the Philharmonic, namely Los Angeles’ Skid Row. In 2011 Vijay created Street Symphony, which since its founding has brought hundreds of world-class musical experiences to Los Angeles County communities affected by homelessness and incarceration. In 2018 the MacArthur foundation recognized Vijay’s work as an artist and social justice advocate by awarding him one of their Fellowships, commonly called the “genius grant.”   In this conversation with Corey Madden, Vijay discusses how he grew from dreaming of attaining a position as a leading concertmaster to becoming the artistic director of a radically inclusive and collaborative nonprofit that does not merely do outreach to communities in need but engages with them in transformative ways. http://streetsymphony.org/ https://www.uncsa.edu/kenan/creative-catalyst/artivate.aspx

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Audio recorded by Matt Murphy and edited by Amy Browne Last weekend the Belfast Creative Coalition and Restorative Art Works (RAW) held the first of what they hope will become an annual, Arts in Action Conference at the University of Maine Hutchinson center in Belfast, Maine. The focus was “summoning the power of the arts to address our opioid epidemic”. Today on Maine Currents, we have the keynote presentation by Vijay Gupta, founder of Street Symphony, a Los Angeles based non profit organization serving prisoners and people on skid row. Gupta answers the question: “What's art got to do with it?” Catch the award-winning Maine Currents, independent local news, views and culture, on the 1st Thursday of every month, 10-11 a.m. on WERU-FM and streaming live at www.weru.org The post Maine Currents 11/7/19: Vijay Gupta Keynote at Belfast Arts in Action first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Audio recorded by Matt Murphy and edited by Amy Browne Last weekend the Belfast Creative Coalition and Restorative Art Works (RAW) held the first of what they hope will become an annual, Arts in Action Conference at the University of Maine Hutchinson center in Belfast, Maine. The focus was “summoning the power of the arts to address our opioid epidemic”. Today on Maine Currents, we have the keynote presentation by Vijay Gupta, founder of Street Symphony, a Los Angeles based non profit organization serving prisoners and people on skid row. Gupta answers the question: “What’s art got to do with it?” Catch the award-winning Maine Currents, independent local news, views and culture, on the 1st Thursday of every month, 10-11 a.m. on WERU-FM and streaming live at www.weru.org

In this episode, Jena Vangjel tells me the story of how she was forced to take a month off of practicing the trumpet because she had to have her thyroid removed. Jena and I dig down deep to find out what lessons she learned from taking so much time off, and what we all can learn from her.Jena Vangjel, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, is a freelance trumpeter in Baton Rouge and the surrounding area. She has performed with the New World Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. She is incredibly passionate about how music can create community, and works extensively with Street Symphony—a Los Angeles-based non-profit that brings high-level classical performances to the city’s most underserved citizens. Vangjel is a founding member of the Los Angeles Brass Quintet and is a member of the internationally acclaimed Fountain City Brass Band. She holds a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from The Colburn School in Los Angeles, CA, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. Support the show (https://thatsnotspit.com/support/)

Patchwerk Recording Studios Presents The IdOMUSIC Podcast... 2x Grammy Award Winning producer Street Symphony stops by this week to discuss his Memphis ties, why he calls himself a rapper's producer, how educating others defines success; becoming a professor at MTSU; evolving his sound from working with Lacrae and Reach Records with gospel & christian music to artist like 2 Chainz, Yo Gotti and more.

All people deserve access to a creative and expressive life, says Vijay Gupta, the founder of Street Symphony. Sarah Willis meets and performs with some of the residents of the infamous Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles.

Weltklassemusiker gehen in Los Angeles an soziale Brennpunkte und machen mit Obdachlosen und Arbeitslosen Musik - das ist die Idee von "Street Symphony“. Sarah Willis durfte einen Tag lang mitspielen.

The Ride or Die Project is a multi-platform exploration inspired by women who live by a ride-or-die philosophy. This mixtape* was inspired by one of those platforms, the play OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME by Amanda Parris. OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME is a meeting place between the urgent activism of the 1970’s and today’s unapologetic Hip Hop generation. At this meeting place we find the stories of women. Women who organize communities, protect loved one’s and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy. The play explores the stories of several women as they sit in the waiting room of the Don Jail; hovering in the limbo between freedom and imprisonment. Tickets are now on sale here: http://www.nativeearth.ca/otherside/ *Important Note: This mixtape is a compilation of music and poetry. None of the artists featured are formally associated with the project. Track Listing: 01. Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister) – Tata Vega 02. Grow Girl – Afrakaren 03. Flawless – Beyoncé 04. No Small Talk - Kari Faux 05. Brujas – Princess Nokia 06. All Day All Night – Tika 07. Bag Lady – Erykah Badu 08. To Love & Die - Jhené Aiko 09. Street Symphony – Monica 10. #HoodLove – Jazmine Sullivan 11. Soldier – Destiny’s Child ft. T.I. 12. Hot Boyz (RMX) – Missy Elliot ft. 13. Garden (Say It Like Dat) – SZA 14. Not Goin’ Cry – Mary J. Blige 15. Inside Voice – Truss 16. Woman of the Ghetto – Marlena Shaw 17. I’ll Be – Foxy Brown ft. Jay Z 18. Four Women – Nina Simone 19. Love Is Blind – Eve 20. Foolish (One More Chance) – Ashanti 21. Man Is The Least – Lady Saw 22. VRY BLK – Jamila Woods ft. Noname 23. Bonnie & Clyde – Beyoncé ft. Jay Z 24. Down Ass Bitch – Ja Rule ft. Charlie B 25. Ex-Factor – Lauryn Hill 26. Blk Girl Soldier – Jamila Woods 27. Attitude – Leikeli47 28. Real Bitch Problems – TT The Artist 29. Grown Woman - Beyoncé

Invasion Of The Crab Walkers =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theme To The Lunar Saloon Mark Stewart, Hypnotized (12" Mix), Hypnotized Rinf, Big Bondage (Kinky Sex Wet Mix) Bang Bang (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Ice "T", The Coldest Rap (Part 1), The Coldest Rap / Cold Wind-Madness 3 C's, Fast Boys (Long Version) , Fast Boys Funkmaster General, L.A., L.A. (Party / Radio Version), L.A., L.A. Matthew Wilder, Bouncin' Off The Walls (Intense Dub), Bouncin' Off The Walls HollyGrove!, Love Me, New Orleans' Best Kept Secret Kristine, No One Can Tell Me, No One Can Tell Me Mario, Sexy Freek, Sexy Freek Allure, Why You Wanna Cry (Vocal), Why You Wanna Cry The Limit, She's So Divine, She's So Divine Paul Haig, Blue For You, Blue For You Marx & Spencer, Stay (Dub Mix), Stay Rich Cason And The Galactic Orchestra, Street Symphony, Street Symphony Mr. Slick, My Beat Is Insane, Hard Cor The Brothers "Supreme", We Can't Be Held Back (Radio Mix), We Can't Be Held Back The Unknown Force, Females, Females Q.T., Want Some, Get Some (Instrumental), Want Some, Get Some Julian Flenoy, Turn Me Out, Turn Me Out The Klass, Techno Pop Rock, Techno Pop Rock Triple Threat Three, Scratch Motion (Unreleased Acetate Version), Scratch Motion Deadline, Makossa Rock, Makossa Rock Dark Star, Planet Earth, Planet Earth MC-3, Please Be Mine (Rap Version), Rap-A-Holic / Please Be Mine Bobby Jimmy and The Critters, Snake (Instrumental), Snake Club Nouveau, Jealousy (Instrumental), Jealousy Raw Silk, Do It To The Music (Dub Mix), Do It To The Music Kopper, Funky Bunch Of Characters, Time To Say Goodbye / Funky Bunch Of Characters Ex Tras, Haven't Been Funked Enough (Instrumental), Haven't Been Funked Enough Love Force, It's Party Time, It's Party Time Poetry 'N' Motion, Killer Dayton's, Killer Dayton's D-Rock-D, My Fresh Nissan, My Fresh Nissan Ceiliia, Nissan (Truckin'), Nissan (Truckin') B Team, Partylizers, Something For Nothing / Partylizers Toney Lee, Reach Up (Dub Mix), Reach Up Groove Control, Do It Anyway You Wanna (Version '84) (Funk Mix), Do It Anyway You Wanna (Version 84) Kristine, Head Games, Head Games Royalle Delite, (I'll Be A) Freak For You, (I'll Be A) Freak For You T. Omar, I'm Only Nine (Dance Version), I'm Only Nine West Coast Crew, Put The Pipe Down (Instrumental), Put The Pipe Down Exquisite Taste, It's You That's Happening (Instrumental), It's You That's Happening

Grammy award winning producer and friend of the podcast Street Symphony is back to talk about his latest ventures. 2016 is shaping up to be a huge year with beats on 2chainz latest tape and Gotti's new album, Street discusses the importance of a team and how he plans to take his company Track or Die to the next level. Also, Spike Lou and Animal Brown discuss the new documentary naming Tupac and Biggies killers, try and guess Kanye's new album title and Jay Electronica vs 50 Cent and Kendrick. Subscribe on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ondecktv-podcast/id889648725?mt=2 Follow the show! Twitter https://twitter.com/ondecktvpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/ondecktv/

5. 2 Chainz -Mindin My Business (prod By 8x8, D.O. Speaks & Street Symphony) by Street Execs

#Rule010 Grammy Award Winning producer Street Symphony talks about new producers, coming up in the game, the importance of having a job, and his team Track Or Die.

Robert Gupta (TED senior fellow and first violin for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra) on his amazing Street Symphony project. Robert Gupta, music, street symphony, therapy, prisons, LA, classical music, homeless

Games of chance. I talk about working at a casino. A little about Black Jack. Catechism of the Catholic Church. Our Church's Fiesta. DnD at my friends house. Board and video games. Pokémon and more. Music Such A Game by base-box from there album Street Symphony.Click Here for the Show!