Tag: interview
Jake Shimabukuro Has His Ukulele and His Friends
"There are four strings, two octaves and there's something about the sound when I hear it. It just it takes me back to the islands and it makes me feel young."
Violinist Margaret Batjer Needs Warm and Fuzzy
"The most amazing artistic moments of my life have happened in a live performance where you feel the silence, the absence of noise."
Baritone Davóne Tines Speaks Boldly About Julius Eastman
"All of the aspects of identity that he outlined, I also embody. So by being able to realize his words, I’m able to be very closely in conversatoin or community or connection with his aspirations."
Playwright Rajiv Joseph and His World of Letters
"The most beautiful plays and the most beautiful origami are the surprising ones. And it's not because they have so many folds but it's because somebody has taken a simple piece of paper and made something unexpected and beautiful out of it."
Alan Titus Remembers Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass”
"I was totally in sync with Lenny's mind. He heard what he wanted through me. So he gave me permission to go deeper into whatever emotional reservoir I had to bring it out."
Billy Childs Writes Music That Heals
"My answer to that is to keep writing music that I think is important. I think there's an element of people when they hear the truth, they respond to it"
On the Road with Arturo O’Farrill
"You can make music to placate, you can make music to monetize, or you can make music because you're curious about how this sounds or that works. When you do that there are people who are adventurous who will go with you on that adventure."
Sorting Through The T and Shade with Sandra Bernhard
"I've managed to take control of the reins of my career which is hard work. Maybe I wouldn't want to do it in ten years, but I still want to do it now."
Anne Akiko Meyers Shares Her Voice Through Her Violin
"The violin is my voice. When you have so much to say what it comes down to it is are you transporting yourself and the audience with what you have to say through your music."
Irina Meachem Celebrates The Ways We Come Together
"A singer goes through so much; they have such a big job to do. And I respect what they go through. I can't do it. Yet there are things that the pianist does which is equally impressive and important for me."