I worked for many years in los angeles at the Los Angeles Times. I have written for the new york times. Currently i write for the los angeles review of books and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of a book lapoetry, that deals with causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former Pulitzer Prize winning editor. She spent 25 years working at newsday and to the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of cesar a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the charismatic leader. She has written the union of widely acclaimed into nuanced history of chavez is United Farmworkers Movement and nuanced history of a United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received an endowment for her work on the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam pawel. [applause] thanks, gregg. Gregg hi miriam. Gg. Iam hi, gre gregg i want to ask you something i feel is important what brought you through the writing about cesar chave
Pull you in or fill you up or take you places that suggest wonders. Is there more powerful or captivating art than music . Today we will talk about sacred music in the catholic tradition. We will talk about the history of catholic music. Our guest today is a composer who is writing a new brand new mass for the archdiocese of San Francisco to premier here in december. Please rejoin us after this break as we talk about the path of beauty and music as a path to god. Welcome to mosaic. Frank, thank you for joining us. Brief me. I know you are from new jersey. You live here and have been there for 30 or 40 years. Yes. I moved here when i went to school here. You are a teacher of music at cal state hayward. I think you retired from that. Right. I started in 1981 and hung up my cleats in 2014. We want to know what youre doing for the archdiocese of San Francisco today. You are doing a mass and you are so right sacred music. Why the interest . Why turning to that . The interest in sacred music
Reporter yes. A warm wednesday for sure. As we head through the afternoon get ready for mild to warm temperatures. Plenty of sunshine. Here is a live look with our Treasure Island camera. Mainly clear skies and temperatures running into the 50s at this hour. As we head through the afternoon highs will be warmer than yesterday. We will watch temperatures climb through the week. 73 in San Francisco and 79 in oakland. 81 in san jose and 85 in concord. Nine to 12 degrees above average for this time of year. I have more on the full forecast coming up. Lets check in for the traffic. Yes. Thank you. Im getting more information from chp. One person has died in this accident northbound on the 101. They did have all the lanes shutdown. They have opened two left lanes leaving the two right lanes closed as they investigate and deal with the situation there. There is activity on the north side. The backup looks just beyond trimble. You can use 280 as an alternate and use the freeway to get past the
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Track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. It has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. That is more accurate as to how our relationship with immigration has been in the United States. A great irony is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the u. S. In the years after that, increasingly restrictive legislation was passed. We want immigrants to calm, we beckon them with opportunity to take jobs as skilled, semiskilled, unskilled labor to build our country, construct our economy, but after they get here, frequently they are the object of scorn, they are discriminated against, they suffer some of the worst acts of prejudice imaginable. This is a very complicate