Posts tagged Immigration
SINGING OF ONESELF

“…Yet the dialogue surrounding the subject of identity contains many pitfalls. Paradoxically, the individual can get lost in the heated conversation that inherently arises around the topic. Oftentimes, that discourse becomes reductive…Reduced to our pronouns, our race, our political affiliation, our religion, our nationality, or whatever category becomes the focus, the individual is blended into the oblivion of a colored bar on a graph or section of a pie chart…”

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IN YOUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

The text threads in my phone today are filled with melancholy, angry, depressed variations on the same theme: that most of the people who have my phone number simply do not have the heart to celebrate American Independence Day today.

I’ve always felt pretty mixed about the way we celebrate this anniversary of America’s birth…

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SONGS OF THE NEW WORLD

Over the course of the next month, CAIC is broadcasting performances from the 2021 Collaborative Works Festival. This week’s broadcast is of the opening performance: CONCERT I: Songs of the New World. Below is my program note.

The broadcast of Songs of the New World runs through this Thursday evening, October 21! Please check it out!

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