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6 Bay Area arts and entertainment events to check out this week, Feb. 14-20

The Chronicle’s guide to notable arts and entertainment events includes My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre, Oakland Symphony performance and more. ....

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With love and firmness, Daisy Newman taught young musicians to succeed

Joshua Kosman April 15, 2021Updated: April 16, 2021, 9:23 am
Daisy Newman was the late founder and executive director of the Young Musicians Choral Orchestra. Photo: Khris Carrey Sanchez
A chorus of young singers, ranging in age from 8 to 18, drawn from some of the most poverty-stricken neighborhoods of the Bay Area, raise their voices in harmony, delivering a range of repertoire encompassing both jazz and classical offerings.
Then they leave their risers, move to seats at the front of the stage, and pick up their instruments. Because these kids are not only a chorus they’re an orchestra, too.
Since 2013, when it parted ways with UC Berkeley’s Young Musicians Program and went out on its own, the Young Musicians Choral Orchestra has been creating musical and educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths. It’s an organization with a powerful multiple mission part conservatory, part psychological support system, part economic lifeline. ....

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West Edge Opera selects new commission with help from subscribers

Joshua Kosman January 15, 2021Updated: January 21, 2021, 11:05 am
The eight curators of West Edge Opera’s Aperture commissioning program meet on Zoom to go over entries: (Top row) Emilie Whelan, Brian M. Rosen and Mary Chun; (middle) Michael Morgan, Aléxa Anderson and Jonathan Khuner; (bottom) Mark Streshinsky and Leigh Rondon-Davis. Photo: West Edge Opera, West Edge Opera
One composer wants to write an opera based on family history, telling the story of her Korean great-aunt who went on a fatal hunger strike rather than be coerced into an arranged marriage. Other creative plans include a mythic treatment of ancient Egyptian gods, a magic-realist opus about an orphanage for fire victims and a black comedy about the misdeeds of “Florida Man” during the 2000 presidential recount. ....

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3 Bay Area conductors sound off about missing the podium in the COVID era

Yoshi Kato December 16, 2020Updated: December 18, 2020, 7:09 am
Sarah Hicks with the Minnesota Orchestra in 2017. Photo: Courtney Perry
The challenges musicians face to keep their skills sharp and make a living during the pandemic have been well-documented. But conductors have an extra set of obstacles.
Unlike their comrades who play within the symphony, they can’t spend their sheltered-in-place hours practicing their instrument, which is the orchestra itself. The technology is still being perfected for fluid remote performances by just two musicians, and those multi-panel viral videos of classical instrumentalists playing a piece together are marvels of digital editing as much as of performance. The postproduction combining of individual instrumentalists, while its own art, is the antithesis of live conducting. ....

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