{"id":834,"date":"2006-02-12T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/12\/uncoming-concert-in-sf\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:05","slug":"uncoming-concert-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/12\/uncoming-concert-in-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncoming Concert in SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherminds.org\/shtml\/DBRdelsol.shtml\">Daniel Bernard Roumain joins Del Sol String Quartet and special guest DJ Scientific for A Civil Rights Reader for Strings, Laptop &#038; DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otherminds.org\">Other Minds<\/a>, although not having a festival this year, is producing a bunch of smaller individual concerts.  This is the next one on March 6 at 7:30 PM at Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center, 3200 California Street, San Francisco.  Sure wish I could go.<br \/>\nIf the name Daniel Bernard Roumain is ringing a bell, but your memory is fuzzy, he&#8217;s a New York violinist\/composer.  The New York Times and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5191628\">NPR<\/a> and other places have profiled him.  Infuriatingly, the coverage tends to be, &#8220;oh my god, a black violinist!  with dreds!&#8221;  Quoting NPR, now, &#8220;Daniel Bernard Roumain doesn&#8217;t fit the image of a classical musician. The Haitian-American violinist and composer sports a silver nose ring and dreadlocks that reach to his waist.&#8221;  Roumain, however, embraces this, &#8220;Roumain has coined a name for his style: &#8216;dred violin.'&#8221;  After hearing a bit of Anthony Braxton&#8217;s difficulties being taken seriously as a black man who composes opera, it&#8217;s very clear why Roumain allows and encourages this kind of coverage.  Being black and a classical musician is more than the liberal media can usually manage to wrap its&#8217; tiny brains around.<br \/>\nThe NPR article is a lot better than the NYT one I saw several months ago.  Maybe the novelty of a black classical violinist is wearing off enough that Roumain is being taken seriously for his art, rather than his improbability.  His art, by all accounts, certainly merits interest.  It&#8217;s exciting that Other Minds was able to book him for this event.  Lots of tickets are still available, get them while they&#8217;re hot.<br \/>\nTags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Other+Minds\" rel=\"tag\">Other Minds<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/San+Francisco\" rel=\"tag\">San Francisco<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Bernard Roumain joins Del Sol String Quartet and special guest DJ Scientific for A Civil Rights Reader for Strings, Laptop &#038; DJ Other Minds, although not having a festival this year, is producing a bunch of smaller individual concerts. This is the next one on March 6 at 7:30 PM at Kanbar Hall, Jewish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/12\/uncoming-concert-in-sf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncoming Concert in SF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}