About this Event
The Shenson Faculty Concert Series returns this summer with free concerts spotlighting CMC’s talented faculty members. Each year, the Shenson Foundation sponsors free community concerts for musical projects to support CMC faculty as performing artists and ensure their work on stage is shared and celebrated in our community.
This year’s accomplished presenters will highlight a wide variety of musical styles, techniques, and creative inspirations—from jazz to classical to folk traditions, original compositions, and music as a tool for social justice and historical and cultural reflection.
- June 22: Dorisiya Yosifova, violin
- July 13: Rita Lackey, voice/piano
- July 20: Erick Peralta, piano
- August 10: Jon Jang, piano
Civil Wrongs: Music about Black American & Japanese American Incarceration with Jon Jang, piano
Thursday, August 10 at 7pm
Sha'ar Zahav (290 Dolores St, San Francisco)
FREE
Civil Wrongs Music will commemorate the 35th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Liberties Act on August 10, 1988, the United States federal law granting reparations to Japanese Americans who had been wrongly incarcerated by the United States government during World War II.
The program will feature Mediations on Integration, written by Charles Mingus in 1964 in response to a Life Magazine article about prisons being built in the South to incarcerate Black Civil Rights activists, and Jang’s original 1987 composition Reparations Now!, paying tribute to the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations for Japanese Americans, as well as a support statement for reparations for Black Americans.
Featuring Musicians:
Erika Oba, flute; Gary Brown, double bass; Jon Jang, piano; Deszon Claiborne, percussion (CMC Faculty)
This event will be hosted by our Mission District neighbors Sha'ar Zahav. RSVP is recommended, but there will be space for walk-up patrons at the door.
About the Performers:
For four decades, the trajectory of composer-pianist Jon Jang’s work mirrors the development of a multiracial democratic New American Majority from his unique perspective. Inspired by the music from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, Jang has collaborated with Max Roach in their work SenseUs (1990). “Eleanor Bumpurs” (1993) and “Can’t Stop Cryin’ for America: Black Lives Matter!” (2017) represent Jang’s works in response to the legal lynching of Black Americans. Jang’s Reparations Now! Concerto for Large Ensemble and Taiko (1987) pays tribute to the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations and shouts out a clarion call for reparations for Black Americans.
Jang also explores Chinese American transnational history in works such as The Chinese American Symphony (2007), a work that pays tribute to the Chinese immigrant laborers who built the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Jang, a grandson of a paper son, composed “Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 2” for the Kronos Quartet about the Chinese immigrants who were incarcerated on Angel Island in San Francisco during the Chinese Exclusion Act era.
Jang has toured with Max Roach, James Newton, David Murray, Jiebing Chen and Min Xiao-Fen in Europe, China, South Africa, Canada and the United States.
About the Venue:
Masks are encouraged but not required. Please be aware that events are subject to change to comply with health and safety. Thank you for helping us keep our communities safe!
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- Refrain from wearing perfume/cologne
- Check your various products to see if there is a fragrance-free version available and/or try to use them at least a couple of hours before coming to Sha’ar Zahav to give time for the fragrance to wear off.
- Switch to fragrance-free laundry detergent and softener
For more information on this subject, including why it’s important and a list of Fragrance-Free products, please visit: eastbaymeditation.org
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sha'ar Zahav, 290 Dolores Street, San Francisco, United States
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