Episode 15

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20th Sep 2021

Stop Auditioning for a Gig You've Already Booked (w/Trevor Weston)

Greetings, dear Scorekeepers! It's time for episode 15 of THE SCORE!!! This week, we are thrilled to welcome our wonderful guest, composer, Juilliard professor and all-around smart and lovely person, Trevor Weston! Join us for a fun and fascinating conversation as we take a journey through Black music history from Africa to the present and discuss the state of arts education. (0:31:16) Before that though, we give our take on CBS' incredibly upsetting and much-pilloried disaster-in-the-making, The Activist. Who could have possibly thought a reality competition show that pits activists against each other for funding would be a hellish, craven dystopian nightmare, y'all? 🙄 (0:00:33) And finally, we'll get your week started with a little PB&J! And as we all know Pure Black Joy starts at home. (1:26:39) Let's do it to it, y'all!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Guest: Trevor Weston

Producer: Rocky Jones


Links

Trevor Weston (Website) (Instagram)

Temple University New Music Ensemble - Oct. 6 (Buy Tickets)

Network for New Music, Phila. - Nov. 7 (Buy Tickets)

Chamber Orchestra of the Strings, Colo. - Nov. 7 (Buy Tickets)

Harvard University Collegium Musicum - Nov. 7 (Learn More)


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The Score
News and commentary about opera, classical music, and pop culture seen through an antiracist and anti-oppressive lens
It's time to put opera on game! Hosts Lee Bynum, Paige Reynolds, and Rocky Jones are three Black and queer artists, pop culture aficionados, and arts administrators at Minnesota Opera, who are working every day to bring more diversity, equity, and inclusivity into opera and classical music. The Score is their provocative, thoughtful, and humorous commentary on the industry's past, present, and future, as seen through an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens. Each episode features a variety of stories from a variety of perspectives that bring People of the Global Majority, queer, trans and nonbinary folks, and everyone else into the discussion of ownership over and access to the art form. From the opera house to the statehouse to your house, each episode will amplify the voices of those in the field who are pushing the boundaries of what opera is, who it is for, and how it can transform us and our communities. New episodes come out every other Wednesday!