by Frances Phillips | Mar 14, 2014
Collaborating with visual artist and writer Flo Oy Wong and with the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (API Cultural Center), composer and bassist Marcus Shelby is composing a 60-minute suite of music for jazz orchestra based on Oy Wong’s book, Baby Jack Rice. Oy...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 13, 2014
Choreographer Joe Goode and the Magic Theater joined forces to develop a new work, challenging the separation between dance and theater and continuing Goode’s series “What the Body Knows,” an exploration of transformation, gender, and the body’s intuitive and...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 28, 2014
Composer Andrew Imbrie collaborated with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the San Francisco Girls Chorus to create Songs of Then and Now, a new work based on poems by William Shakespeare, e.e. cummings, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The finished piece...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 1, 2014
Jazz composer Francis Wong collaborated with theatre ensemble Thick Description to create an original score for Karen Amano’s Asian American adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes. The play’s world premiere coincided with the December 1999 opening of Thick...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 27, 2014
On November 18, 1978, nearly 1,000 expatriate Americans died in Jonestown, Guyana. All were members of the People’s Temple, and most of them had emigrated a little more than a year earlier from the San Francisco Bay Area. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of...
