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Key ChangeWhere Talent Meets Opportunity: Career Trajectories in Opera with Kristin Ditlow & Jamie FloraWe often say that the road to a successful opera career can be a winding one—and we’ve got the receipts to prove it! Join Key Change co-hosts Anna Garcia and Olga Perez Flora as they discuss career trajectories, academic journeys, and artistic life with two legendary performers and educators: Kristin Ditlow, Associate Professor of Vocal Coaching and Opera Conductor at the University Of New Mexico, and James Flora*, acclaimed American tenor and Lecturer in Voice and Opera, also at UNM. Our conversation sets the stage for an exciting collaboration between Santa Fe Opera and UNM. “The po...2025-05-0746 min
The Fabulous 413January 14, 2025: New DawnWe’re looking into legacies of sound, old and not quite as old.For instance, we’re traveling about 13,000 years in the past with tales by Indigenous people who have been storytelling on this land for millennia. On Jan. 19, the Wendell Meetinghouse will host a presentation of "New Lights in the Dawnland," an audiodocumentary which brings Indigenous voices together to weave the history, story, and song of Northfield and beyond. We speak with producer and archivist Michael Kline and one of the featured voices, David Brule of the Nolumbeka Project, about this important auditory journey.And...2025-01-1550 min
Contemporary Black CanvasEp 19 Jeri Lynne Johnson2024-06-1055 min
Lyriquement vôtreLe vestiaire des chefs(fes) d'orchestre (2/2)Taditionnel, confortable ou vraiment original, nous poursuivons notre parcours sur le dresscode des chefs(fes) d'orchestre. Immertion dans leurs vestiaires pour découvrir les tenues dans lesquelles ils et elles ont aimé diriger. Après les témoignages de Laurence Equilbey et d'Hervé Niquet ce seront ceux de Jeri Lynne Johnson fondatrice et directrice artistique du Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra et d' Enrique Mazzola directeur musical du Lyrik Opéra de Chicago.Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.2024-04-1728 min
Destination Santa Fe OperaSpecial Announcement: Help us win an award!Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a new opera? Season 5 of Key Change, from the Santa Fe Opera Department of Community Engagement, is coming soon and we’d LOVE for you to help us celebrate its 5th anniversary. We just learned that Key Change is a FINALIST in the Signal Awards for the podcasting industry! We are up for 2 different awards: Best Music Show for the 4th season; and Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Episode for “Telling Hard Truths”, an episode following the commission, creation, and world premiere of This Little L...2023-09-2304 min
No Time to be TimidJeri Lynne Johnson: The Power of GritJeri Lynne Johnson, the founder and artistic director of Philadelphia’s Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, continues to break barriers across the US and Europe as the first woman and/or the first African-American woman on the podium for many orchestras and opera companies. In our conversation about sustaining a creative life, she shares the challenges she's overcome along her artistic journey, what keeps her going, and how to transform grit into grace. Learn more about Jeri and explore her work. Listen to -- and support! -- The Black Pearl Chamber...2023-07-1348 min
Key ChangeTelling Hard TruthsWhat do you know about the life and legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer? Chances are, not much. That's about to change. Co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia dust off the Key Change time machine for a trip back through time and place to the real-life inspiration for This Little Light of Mine (TLLoM), the modern operatic masterpiece commissioned by Santa Fe Opera's Opera For All Voices initiative. Good thing this ride is roomy because joining them are two women who can claim a direct connection to Mrs. Hamer: Jacqueline "Cookie" Hamer Flakes, Mrs. Hamer's last surviving d...2023-03-1543 min
Key ChangeA Day in the Life Before a World PremiereIt’s October 28, 2022. As a brisk, still night settles over Santa Fe, things are heating up inside The Lensic Performing Arts Center. Longtime opera patrons mingle alongside never opera goers. Soon, the curtain will rise on This Little Light of Mine (TLLoM), a modern operatic masterpiece composed by Chandler Carter with libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover. The one-act production is an unflinching yet uplifting dramatization of the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black woman born on the very lowest rung of the American caste system. A Black woman who nonetheless rose to speak at the 1964 Democratic National Con...2023-03-0140 min
Upbeat LiveBryan, Coleman & Price with Renae Williams Niles • LA Phil 2022/23Chief Content and Engagement Officer at Los Angeles Philharmonic Renae Williams Niles is joined by conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson and composer Courtney Bryan to explore the music of Bryan, Coleman & Price.
This talk was given at the performance of Bryan, Coleman & Price at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Pieces discussed:
Valerie COLEMAN Opus Serena (world premiere)
Courtney BRYAN Sanctum
Music of Price and Ponder Selected Songs
PRICE Symphony No. 3 in C minor
See this year’s Upbeat Live schedule at: laphil.com/ubl. Join us in pe...2022-11-1230 min
Podium TimeHow to Build Audience Diversity, with Jeri Lynne JohnsonBuilding audience diversity is not about PR programs, Black History Month concerts, or playing diverse composers on a few programs.It's about not reducing an entire population in our community to the color of their skin. Building audience diversity is about realizing that "diversity" is more nuanced. It's about realizing that we connect by building relationships. It's about not Expensive PR campaigns that attract diverse audiences to a single concert (if at all). These don't result in lasting change because diverse audiences don't feel welcome in our art form. They may know that we...2022-10-3129 min
TRILLOQUYOpus 156 - "Leading with Compassion"Kelly Hall-Tompkins is a professional violinist and multi-disciplinary entrepreneur whose love for music, coupled with her grandmother's loving spirit, inspired Music Kitchen: the pioneer organization to bring top classical music artists in concert into homeless shelters. Kelly talks with Garrett (1:02:00) about Music Kitchen's origins, the impact it's had on patrons, and how we all can change the world by leading with compassion. Scott celebrates Maestro Jeri Lynn Johnson and Joe Rainey, Garrett highlights the music of Reena Esmail and Flutronix, and the guys unpack the week in news, social media, and advocacy.
Playlist:
Joe Raposo - "The Electric Company" Theme
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TRILLOQUYOpus 147 - "Cliff Hanger"Based in Philadelphia, the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra was established as a model for the 21st-century American orchestra with a mission to combine artistic excellence with cultural diversity. The ensemble's Artistic Director, Jeri Lynne Johnson, joins Garrett to discuss the origins of Black Pearl, changing the culture surrounding "traditional" repertoire, and more. In movement two, Scott continues his celebration of International Guitar Month with music performed by Paul Galbraith and Garrett offers Japanese jazz. The guys start with an acknowledgement of 4/20 and wrap up with words on this week's historic event at Carnegie Hall.
Playlist:
Flutronix - "Life Lines"
Erykah...2022-04-202h 02
The Indie Opera PodcastPodcast 088: Quamino's Map with Deborah Brevoort, Kimille Howard, Jeri Lynne Johnson and Cori EllisonJoining us are Librettist and playwright Deborah Brevoort, conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson, dramaturg Cori Ellison, and director Kimille Howard discuss the origins and creative process of this unique production, which focuses on the Black Americans who fought for their liberty on the side of the British in the Revolutionary War and struggled to survive in London afterward.
We also learn about the Black gentry in London at the time and how it may have intersected with the newly-arrived soldiers. Don’t miss this surprising look into the research, staging, and craft that went into bringing an important but little-known historical mo...2022-04-071h 17
Orchestrating Change by Canton Symphony OrchestraSeason 3, Episode 2 with Jeri Lynne JohnsonWe are joined today by Jeri Lynne Johnson, founder and artistic director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in Philadelphia. For over a decade, Black Pearl has been a model for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the orchestral industry as a racially diverse ensemble performing for a racially diverse audience - something that the rest of the industry has only recently begun to talk about. Jeri’s career has taken her all over the world, where she has become the first Black woman to ever conduct some of the world’s leading orchestras. She is also the founder of DEI...2022-01-2857 min
Key ChangeMaking a Choice With Conviction: A Conversation with Jeri Lynne Johnson"When people talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that's art." ~Jeri Lynne Johnson Near the end of last year’s contentious presidential campaign, opera and activism joined forces on the deck of a moored oil tanker to ask audiences how does democracy function and for whom does it function? In the wake of that election, artists’ responsibility to speak up and out is even more vital. In this episode of Key Change, host Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Is This America? music director Jeri Lynne Johnson explore the role artists play in activism. They...2021-03-0337 min
Key ChangeSinging a Call To Action, Is This America?How do artists lend their talents in support of social change when they’re literally and figuratively stifled by a global pandemic? They do as voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer did in 1964: they find a way to make their voices heard. Andrea Fellows Fineberg takes listeners on a short trip with maximum impact. Travel back to the autumn of 2020, to the final weeks of a contentious presidential campaign, to the deck of a historic oil tanker docked in New York Harbor, to the timely world premiere of Is This America? a one-of-a-kind opera event that addressed thi...2021-02-2444 min
Tollans musikaliskaBlack Lives Matter - Afroamerikanska musikerBlack Lives Matter - Afroamerikanska musiker. Möt dirigenten Jeri Lynne Johnson och tonsättaren och pianisten Courtney Bryan. Då en polis brutalt mördar afroamerikanen George Floyd i Minneapolis den 25 maj 2020, demonstrerar människor över hela världen i stora skaror under banderoller med texten Black Lives Matter.
Frihetskämpar som Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, Angela Davies, Malcom X och John Lewis blir åter aktuella. Ett för många okänt ord introduceras: Juneteenth. Det är en förkortning av June Nineteenth, alltså 19 juni, en minnesdag för slaveriets upphörande.
Att rasism...2020-09-1557 min
MusikmagasinetMusikmagasinet Black Lives Matter - Afroamerikanska musikerBlack Lives Matter - Afroamerikanska musiker. Möt dirigenten Jeri Lynne Johnson och tonsättaren och pianisten Courtney Bryan. Av Birgitta Tollan. Då en polis brutalt mördar afroamerikanen George Floyd i Minneapolis den 25 maj 2020, demonstrerar människor över hela världen i stora skaror under banderoller med texten Black Lives Matter.
Frihetskämpar som Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, Angela Davies, Malcom X och John Lewis blir åter aktuella. Ett för många okänt ord introduceras: Juneteenth. Det är en förkortning av June Nineteenth, alltså 19 juni, en minnesdag för slaveriets upp...2020-09-1356 min
Classically SpeakingThree Superconductors Take On 2020With a post-coronavirus return to music-making on the horizon for American orchestras, these institutions are bringing a renewed commitment to a healthier and more representative environment. We assembled three of the orchestra world’s superheroes to show us how it’s done. Jeri Lynne Johnson, JoAnn Falletta, and Mei-Ann Chen discussed their hopes and their priorities as their ensembles face the rest of 2020.2020-09-0700 min
Contemporary Black CanvasEp:19 Jeri Lynne Johnson<p>On this episode of Contemporary Black Canvas, I had the pleasure of speaking to Jeri Lynne Johnson, a conductor and the founder of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra. Jeri Lynne Johnson is deeply committed to building the diversity of the contemporary orchestra and its audience. On this episode, we learn about her love for classical music […]</p>
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