Tag: interview
Siblings Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason Hit the Road…
"The most enjoyable thing about what we do is we get to spend time investigating music often that has so many layers and so much to investigate."
Composer Du Yun Explores 21st Century Manhood
"Musically, it's always in a way, like a second thought to me. It's funny, right? I'm always interested in human nature and and humanities and the complexity of the humans in question."
Deaf West Theatre’s DJ Kurs Is Rehearsing Opera
"I always assumed that opera was a world in a space that I shouldn't go into, which I shouldn't even bother."
Tony Winner Debbie Gravitte Just Wants to Entertain You
"When I am standing on a stage and am fully present and people are gazing back at me with that look of expectation, I absolutely feel like I am the luckiest human on the planet. I get to do what millions of people wish they could do."
Saxophonist Timothy McAllister Trains for His “Triathlon”
"If that's how you hear it, I'm going to I'm going to fight like hell to give it to you.I'll nail it by concert, I promise you."
Celebrating The Full Story of Dance Theatre of Harlem
"We watched those peaks and valleys happening and the reaction from them. And it was never to give up, to lay down and just let go. It was always to fight."
Maria Schneider Doesn’t Play It Safe
"That is the process of writing: getting people to ask questions and to take risks and try things they don't know how to do and dare to have it fail."
Grant Gershon: 20 Years with the Los Angeles Master Chorale
"I don't feel like we're a well-kept secret anymore. We're well kept and we're out in the world much more."
What Would Martha Graham Think?
"It was important for me to not see Martha Graham. I really look for people who have developed their own voices and ask them to take inspiration from Martha Graham's ideas."
Catching Up with The Band’s Visit
"It's about people immediately reaching out and saying how can I help you and how can we connect and how can we get through this together?"