by Frances Phillips | Dec 12, 2014 | 2008, Literary Arts, News
Congratulations to writer Summer Brenner whose Richmond Tales: Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle was selected by the California Teachers Association (CTA) for the California Reads program–part of CTA’s Read Across America initiative. Brenner’s book...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 20, 2013 | 2008, News, Performing Arts
East Meets West Music has released Raga and Raj, as part of its Utsav! series of recordings celebrating the legacy of Ravi Shankar. Included is Eight Ragas, the 2010 composition developed through a Creative Work Fund collaboration among composer Barry Phillips, Linda...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 26, 2008 | 2008, Performing Arts
La Peña Cultural Center collaborating with Wayne Wallace, Aya de Leon, and other artists to create a 90-minute multimedia performance suite, chronicling the 35-year history of La Peña Cultural Center and the cultural and social movements that have...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 26, 2008 | 2008, Performing Arts
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center collaborating with musician Taj Mahal on American Horizon, a song cycle, performances, and recording for the American worker built on themes that are based in traditional Mexican American and African American music.
by Frances Phillips | Sep 26, 2008 | 2008, Literary Arts
Big Bridge Press and poet, musician, and scholar David Meltzer (with fiscal sponsor Committee on Poetry) to create RockPile, a poetic journal in the tradition of Japanese literature, and a performance based on the collaborators, travel to cities in the United States...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 26, 2008 | 2008, Performing Arts
The Santa Cruz Baroque Festival and its ensemble The Lux Musica, collaborating with classical Indian music composer Barry Phillips on a new work, Imaginary Intersections: Raga and Raj, in a creative language based on both South Asian and European melodic and rhythmic...