tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:/blogs/lisa-b-s-blog
Lisa B's Blog
2023-10-19T01:43:00-07:00
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
false
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290432
2023-10-19T01:43:00-07:00
2023-10-19T20:00:04-07:00
Berkeley Book Launch Nov. 5 by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and Dick Cluster
<h1 style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/442174/8d06474881dfbae1dfc52c6ccbf6f8a2966851e3/original/poetry-flash.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/442174/8d06474881dfbae1dfc52c6ccbf6f8a2966851e3/original/poetry-flash.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="138" width="365" /></a></div>
<br><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Berkeley Book Launch </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and Dick Cluster</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sun. Nov. 5, 3 p.m.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sponsored by Poetry Flash</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Art House Gallery & Cultural Center</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2905 Shattuck Ave.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Berkeley, CA 94705</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">FREE</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with refreshments</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
</h1><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) reads from "God in Her Ruffled Dress" (What Books Press) and Dick Cluster reads from Paula Abramo's poetry cycle "Fiat Lux" (bilingual edition translated by Cluster from FlowerSong Press), nominated for a Northern California Book Award.</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Please note: we turn clocks back at 2 a.m. that calendar day, so make sure not to be late!</span>
</h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div>
<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvaugc_0IAsbjsH6GcnzEUC3VJynRnqPG9aVeiloTKUNRm2ZkotUcSSPVw3675KNLcQer0ca7a1ud-RxTB6rBQ4fsxqTaCC2CTBno0VLwJZupCfTUvrGROvsYBBrxTd0GfEPNFlZSFRamQETbM5BB39N-8I9yJHoXb1uasGwcl5Hdq_aYhgK4_Es8fD2Q/s310/Fiat%20Lux%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvaugc_0IAsbjsH6GcnzEUC3VJynRnqPG9aVeiloTKUNRm2ZkotUcSSPVw3675KNLcQer0ca7a1ud-RxTB6rBQ4fsxqTaCC2CTBno0VLwJZupCfTUvrGROvsYBBrxTd0GfEPNFlZSFRamQETbM5BB39N-8I9yJHoXb1uasGwcl5Hdq_aYhgK4_Es8fD2Q/w677-h357/Fiat%20Lux%20cover.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="357" width="677" /></a></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN6Ks5hydy_e6ZEwmkXjmNYkNkKt3oAc1lU56fH6FG8GvhzGFOGJYsSa3Dt4qV4pRO-A0dg4aznYBAE6ISn02pGf9Anfn1loZ47XQk89ge3qiQNvnT3YejazKbNwCXsl-gNns267LlSAohI5GJ7tH90A5fWFN43H2dZo2pvkN4jI36njAcQ3GWWBrJ8pI/s354/God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress%20cover%20smaller_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN6Ks5hydy_e6ZEwmkXjmNYkNkKt3oAc1lU56fH6FG8GvhzGFOGJYsSa3Dt4qV4pRO-A0dg4aznYBAE6ISn02pGf9Anfn1loZ47XQk89ge3qiQNvnT3YejazKbNwCXsl-gNns267LlSAohI5GJ7tH90A5fWFN43H2dZo2pvkN4jI36njAcQ3GWWBrJ8pI/s320/God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress%20cover%20smaller_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein).jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="195" /></a>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div>
<br><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290400
2023-10-19T01:43:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:06-07:00
Berkeley Book Launch Nov. 5 by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and Dick Cluster
<h1 style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/442174/8d06474881dfbae1dfc52c6ccbf6f8a2966851e3/original/poetry-flash.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/442174/8d06474881dfbae1dfc52c6ccbf6f8a2966851e3/original/poetry-flash.jpg/!!/b%3AW1sicmVzaXplIixbNjAwLG51bGwseyJ3aXRob3V0RW5sYXJnZW1lbnQiOnRydWUsImZpdCI6Im91dHNpZGUifV1dXQ%3D%3D/meta%3AeyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ%3D%3D.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="138" width="365" /></a></div>
<br><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Berkeley Book Launch </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and Dick Cluster</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sun. Nov. 5, 3 p.m.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sponsored by Poetry Flash</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Art House Gallery & Cultural Center</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2905 Shattuck Ave.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Berkeley, CA 94705</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">FREE</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with refreshments</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div>
</h1><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) reads from "God in Her Ruffled Dress" (What Books Press) and Dick Cluster reads from Paula Abramo's poetry cycle "Fiat Lux" (bilingual edition translated by Cluster from FlowerSong Press), nominated for a Northern California Book Award.</span></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Please note: we turn clocks back at 2 a.m. that calendar day, so make sure not to be late!</span>
</h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div>
<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvaugc_0IAsbjsH6GcnzEUC3VJynRnqPG9aVeiloTKUNRm2ZkotUcSSPVw3675KNLcQer0ca7a1ud-RxTB6rBQ4fsxqTaCC2CTBno0VLwJZupCfTUvrGROvsYBBrxTd0GfEPNFlZSFRamQETbM5BB39N-8I9yJHoXb1uasGwcl5Hdq_aYhgK4_Es8fD2Q/s310/Fiat%20Lux%20cover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvaugc_0IAsbjsH6GcnzEUC3VJynRnqPG9aVeiloTKUNRm2ZkotUcSSPVw3675KNLcQer0ca7a1ud-RxTB6rBQ4fsxqTaCC2CTBno0VLwJZupCfTUvrGROvsYBBrxTd0GfEPNFlZSFRamQETbM5BB39N-8I9yJHoXb1uasGwcl5Hdq_aYhgK4_Es8fD2Q/w677-h357/Fiat%20Lux%20cover.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="357" width="677" /></a></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN6Ks5hydy_e6ZEwmkXjmNYkNkKt3oAc1lU56fH6FG8GvhzGFOGJYsSa3Dt4qV4pRO-A0dg4aznYBAE6ISn02pGf9Anfn1loZ47XQk89ge3qiQNvnT3YejazKbNwCXsl-gNns267LlSAohI5GJ7tH90A5fWFN43H2dZo2pvkN4jI36njAcQ3GWWBrJ8pI/s354/God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress%20cover%20smaller_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN6Ks5hydy_e6ZEwmkXjmNYkNkKt3oAc1lU56fH6FG8GvhzGFOGJYsSa3Dt4qV4pRO-A0dg4aznYBAE6ISn02pGf9Anfn1loZ47XQk89ge3qiQNvnT3YejazKbNwCXsl-gNns267LlSAohI5GJ7tH90A5fWFN43H2dZo2pvkN4jI36njAcQ3GWWBrJ8pI/s320/God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress%20cover%20smaller_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein).jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="195" /></a>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div>
<br><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290401
2023-10-19T01:30:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:06-07:00
The Music of Poetry, A Writing Workshop Nov. 4 with Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) (via Zoom)
<h1 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--tec-color-text-event-title); font-family: var(--tec-font-family-sans-serif); font-size: var(--tec-font-size-10); font-weight: var(--tec-font-weight-bold); line-height: var(--tec-line-height-0); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></h1><h1 style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/music-of-poetry/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Music of Poetry<br></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">led by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)</span>
</h1><h1 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">via Zoom</span>
</h1><h1 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">November 4, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time</span>
</h1><h1 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hosted by Hudson Valley Writers Center<br></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141827; font-family: georgia; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">ask@writerscenter.org </span>
</h1><div class="tribe-events-schedule tribe-clearfix" style="align-items: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; margin: var(--tec-spacer-5) 0 var(--tec-spacer-7); outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="tribe-event-time" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10.0768px 20.1535px 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></b><span style="font-size: 18px;">orking with our attention on the sound of our words returns a spirit of play and discovery to our writing. </span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; font-size: var(--tec-font-size-4); line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10.0768px 20.1535px 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Even while writing free verse, we can call on a range of musical techniques to both enrich our poems and help us access content that we are not yet conscious of. </span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; font-size: var(--tec-font-size-4); line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10.0768px 20.1535px 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Get out of your own way as you create by heightening the musicality of your poems.</span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10.0768px 20.1535px 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 18px;">n this workshop, we will first read poems that put musical form and elements at the forefront. We will review tools such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, syllabic stresses, and enjambment. </span></span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; font-size: var(--tec-font-size-4); line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10.0768px 20.1535px 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Then we will turn to playing with these techniques and others (such as listening to a poem in a language you don’t know and “translating” it, and writing while listening to music) to produce work that is freer and perhaps more revelatory — with a more direct connection to the muse. </span></div>
<div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10.0768px 20.1535px 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b><span style="font-size: 18px;">he workshop will include discussing the new work we have generated. </span><br></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span>
</div>
<div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; font-size: var(--tec-font-size-4); line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10.0768px 20.1535px 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">It will be taught on Zoom and capped at 15 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes. <span><a name="more"></a></span><span><!--more--></span></span></div></span></span></div>
<div style='font-family: "Alegreya Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'><span class="tribe-event-time" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div>
<div style='font-family: "Alegreya Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'><span class="tribe-event-time" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div>
<div style='font-family: "Alegreya Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'><span class="tribe-event-time" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div>
<div style='font-family: "Alegreya Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'><span class="tribe-event-time" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div>
<div style='font-family: "Alegreya Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;'><span class="tribe-event-time" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290402
2023-10-19T01:12:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:06-07:00
Miami Book Launch Oct. 29 by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and Caridad Moro-Gronlier
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJiPmIgAAdWb1xvlhszGOWhJr-O8A2F7L8tWHKZFb6voVWni5X1jNGjKHAcsSDds8hWSwHp5EVpTwr1UUqcZjySaL41d5WuX3pdTt40Rmoe4j0uPO0W8XBKHWCbKvsQW5DSGf9jYxY0xd0dKipV7xIdn9AY468FxpUCg0AkjrToQJokEE5k53eAhL2K0/s414/Booksandbooksimage%20Lisa%20B%20and%20Caridad%20Moro-Gronlier.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJiPmIgAAdWb1xvlhszGOWhJr-O8A2F7L8tWHKZFb6voVWni5X1jNGjKHAcsSDds8hWSwHp5EVpTwr1UUqcZjySaL41d5WuX3pdTt40Rmoe4j0uPO0W8XBKHWCbKvsQW5DSGf9jYxY0xd0dKipV7xIdn9AY468FxpUCg0AkjrToQJokEE5k53eAhL2K0/w400-h208/Booksandbooksimage%20Lisa%20B%20and%20Caridad%20Moro-Gronlier.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="208" width="400" /></a></div><br><h1 style="text-align: center;"><br></h1><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-afternoon-with-lisa-b-lisa-bernstein-caridad-moro-gronlier/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Miami Book Launch by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and Caridad Moro-Gronlier</span></a></h1><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sun. Oct. 29<br>4 p.m.</span></h1><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br>Books & Books Coral Gables<br>265 Aragon Ave.<br>Coral Gables, Florida 33134<br>(305) 442-4408</span></h1><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></h2><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) will read from her new poetry book "God in Her Ruffled Dress" (What Books Press) and Caridad Moro-Gronlier will read from "Tortillera" (Texas Review Press, new hardcover release). </span></h3><p><br></p><div class="event-info-wrapper" style="background-color: #fbeeee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 2px; overflow: hidden;"><h2 class="event-info event-title heading-tertiary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--feature-title-color); font-size: 1.375em; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 4px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br></h2></div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290403
2023-10-19T01:02:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:06-07:00
Launch Reading Oct. 25 for Fall 2023 Titles from What Books Press
<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdasTnWx5jo_uVUvbOiChd-9A7najCieSi0GqDu9kyQCS1FCpU-AuZZkVTM8Sz0fPtQrn04Lhl13aWK59ZyV5FrGvThZzxSHR3FFxEY8ke0rTZ802ftDuBF8CLPorFVd32RrOPkPLEtFbaQu0CbWwXrDksqRFY96rQVlI8xUM6jfk9pEzKEYLDZjBUq8/s1080/10.25%20WHAT%20BOOKS%20PRESS%20LAUNCH%20SQ%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdasTnWx5jo_uVUvbOiChd-9A7najCieSi0GqDu9kyQCS1FCpU-AuZZkVTM8Sz0fPtQrn04Lhl13aWK59ZyV5FrGvThZzxSHR3FFxEY8ke0rTZ802ftDuBF8CLPorFVd32RrOPkPLEtFbaQu0CbWwXrDksqRFY96rQVlI8xUM6jfk9pEzKEYLDZjBUq8/w400-h400/10.25%20WHAT%20BOOKS%20PRESS%20LAUNCH%20SQ%20(1).png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Launch Reading by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and Others for Fall 2023 Titles from What Books Press" height="400" width="400" /></a></div><div><br></div><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://shop.villagewell.com/events/30309" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What Books Press Fall 2023 Launch Reading 1!</span></a></h1><div><br></div><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wed. October 25, 7 p.m. FREE</span></h1><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br>with refreshments</span></h1><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br>Village Well Books & Coffee<br>9900 Culver Boulevard #1B<br>Culver City, CA 90232<br>(424) 298-8951</span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bryan Price</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Michael Ventura</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Celeste Goyer</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sarah Maclay</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maria Perez-Talavera</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with introductions by Gail Wronsky</span></div>
</h3><div><br></div><div><br></div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290404
2023-10-08T01:36:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:06-07:00
New Poetry Book "God in Her Ruffled Dress" out in October from What Books Press
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b>'m thrilled that my second full-length book of poetry, <i><a href="https://www.whatbookspress.com/god-in-her-ruffled-dress.html" target="_blank">God in Her Ruffled Dress</a></i>, is to be published October 17, 2023, by <a href="https://www.whatbookspress.com/" target="_blank">What Books Press</a>, reaching online bookstores October 25. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv4Mfq07WKCg0aYUChokh7T9PBhdphe2r-OBaXsupwnjga4mybx6v0C9JM4i79dFJtQC_Y3NplW5B6ZzcV9QCswQZPY1I9XtT8EGup-jBZ2H1VGqEk611v1QnBkOWiohzf9loWJOGRqscmdNOzRNQ-HDldAXcip9WTJZ0Hp6lxbclTUOMF8m5jYdc3zkE/s1181/God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress%20cover%20medium_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv4Mfq07WKCg0aYUChokh7T9PBhdphe2r-OBaXsupwnjga4mybx6v0C9JM4i79dFJtQC_Y3NplW5B6ZzcV9QCswQZPY1I9XtT8EGup-jBZ2H1VGqEk611v1QnBkOWiohzf9loWJOGRqscmdNOzRNQ-HDldAXcip9WTJZ0Hp6lxbclTUOMF8m5jYdc3zkE/s320/God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress%20cover%20medium_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein).jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="195" /></a></div>
<br><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span>
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Y</span></b>ou can order a signed copy directly from me now. Go <a href="http://lisabmusic.com" target="_blank">here</a> for payment options or <a href="https://lisabmusic.com/contact" target="_blank">contact me</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">What Books Press comprises a collective of writers, who have created a small nonprofit publishing house featuring beautiful-looking and compelling literary work with a West Coast sensibility. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(One of the reasons I enjoy their collective approach is that in the '80s, I was a member of the San Francisco-based publishing and editorial collective Five Fingers Poetry, launching the respected literary journal Five Fingers Review.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Back to <i>God in Her Ruffled Dress</i>: it appears an astounding 34 years after my first full-length poetry volume <i>The Transparent Body</i>, from the highly esteemed Wesleyan University Press New Poets Series. You can purchase that volume <a href="mailto:lisabmusic@hotmail.com" target="_blank">directly from me</a> as well, along with the chapbook that preceded it, <i>Anorexia. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b>n the years between my first books and this new one, I became a jazz and groove singer and spoken-word artist, with seven albums and a number of singles featuring my original songs and adventurous versions of standards and covers, most of them interwoven with my spoken verse. Poetry, spoken word, poetic rap are all represented in these innovative music-verse meldings. I was fortunate to record with James Gardiner, who has more than 40 gold and platinum records as an engineer and is also a highly skilled producer and composer, at <a href="http://gardinermusicmentoring.com" target="_blank">Pajama Studios</a> in Oakland. Some of my tunes were composed with such artists as Wayne Wallace, Barbara Higbie, Scott R. Looney, Ben Flint, and Jeff Marrs and all feature some of the <a href="https://lisabmusic.com/music#song-samples-and-credits-for-seven-albums" target="_blank">best musicians in the Bay Area</a>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's been refreshing and fascinating to return to the literary world where I cut my artistic teeth. And to compare today's poetry publishing with the indie music scene, which constantly transformed itself throughout the more than 20 years in which I've been releasing music. Of note is that I'm grateful that the fraction-of-a-penny streaming model has not penetrated literary or any other kind of publishing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b>o my surprise and delighted gratitude, six fabulous poets and critics sent me supportive remarks about the new book. They are displayed in various ways here, because there's so much to highlight, and because some of you prefer images and some like text (and because, let's face it, I'm so proud). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwF1r8VsB_ZV06d6WFUYNCeOfD1viX6q58xmnwzN3MgqrUI2wgFCr2Rp0GkmTjuroA7KRWpLVdKBjzy9O5XONSIPEP-d0gFh-2sha5lBjx4z5fc6EAri4LWHYCn5lDp1FgA7tnDm9ScCOWm1QyhrnEsT2WHecXWKn2rKkb03D39FO53KvaijaiQUJL7jw/s1350/blurbs%20inside%20page%20_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein)_God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress_page-0003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwF1r8VsB_ZV06d6WFUYNCeOfD1viX6q58xmnwzN3MgqrUI2wgFCr2Rp0GkmTjuroA7KRWpLVdKBjzy9O5XONSIPEP-d0gFh-2sha5lBjx4z5fc6EAri4LWHYCn5lDp1FgA7tnDm9ScCOWm1QyhrnEsT2WHecXWKn2rKkb03D39FO53KvaijaiQUJL7jw/w571-h855/blurbs%20inside%20page%20_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein)_God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress_page-0003.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="855" width="571" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0EJAquxiYwOyoi7xtcb-xbgQlL3Lr7x8qw5FcTc031U1dkCzkMWnI23FoiRXBgl7iLnh7OtSCcOINiymzY0tmyn5zISVvLMvYE8XLpvXe09tK25cK7laCwrDO0OF5UO4lPQmy5HQ8C_EqEslUVf4TmgSPWSlHk4roL0nAbBq2VnCbVKWbQe0j4LR1jM/s1101/blurbs%20back%20cov%20cropped%20_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein)_God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI0EJAquxiYwOyoi7xtcb-xbgQlL3Lr7x8qw5FcTc031U1dkCzkMWnI23FoiRXBgl7iLnh7OtSCcOINiymzY0tmyn5zISVvLMvYE8XLpvXe09tK25cK7laCwrDO0OF5UO4lPQmy5HQ8C_EqEslUVf4TmgSPWSlHk4roL0nAbBq2VnCbVKWbQe0j4LR1jM/w464-h566/blurbs%20back%20cov%20cropped%20_Lisa%20B%20(Lisa%20Bernstein)_God%20in%20Her%20Ruffled%20Dress%20-%20Copy.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="566" width="464" /></a>
</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjds00FGegikiUp7jvqLb7Qr2e4-k9SYoBzHTNBkvLdCHKddzkjlBic73yGgyXigAROKLLOykzoiJgTOo6ihTHseG_LG0GV9oe34BPDLiYr3tONjrG6ZrOQYbbWy0xakP2y8x1Y3HlZgG5CeQaDV6TbU_yk9gsqV0giaFh8s5G9_u-BaBEOYcmYj9p2nKE/s1280/FB_IMG_1727907554914573815.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjds00FGegikiUp7jvqLb7Qr2e4-k9SYoBzHTNBkvLdCHKddzkjlBic73yGgyXigAROKLLOykzoiJgTOo6ihTHseG_LG0GV9oe34BPDLiYr3tONjrG6ZrOQYbbWy0xakP2y8x1Y3HlZgG5CeQaDV6TbU_yk9gsqV0giaFh8s5G9_u-BaBEOYcmYj9p2nKE/s320/FB_IMG_1727907554914573815.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="180" /></a></div><br> <span style='font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;'> </span><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>“A
book of deep seeing, ‘the code inside the code’... also a book of intense
listening, ‘the bright spurt of trumpet’ and the train calling like a
late-night lover… a series of divine pleasures transcribed faithfully by a
skilled musician and writer.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>—<b>D.A.
Powell</b>, author of <i>Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys</i> and<i> Repast:
Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><i>_____________________________________</i></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifISqpOMBplO0tVUGAbuWz4QGpE5bX4oVMwEV9rIMFMsDNhjpr27QbJ4_JAGEKjFSSBkBjXzUkZPxVlSQbB60lm342o77VqCZwt_1YY_O7TYGXbSJsWAUn_oerC_bjWcRxoRc0D0rPT50ZEfAfiAX-uPd61PHmyzeP_MuPb9-tsFVbepRKZ9AJHNzE9i8/s1280/FB_IMG_6632869631885756985.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifISqpOMBplO0tVUGAbuWz4QGpE5bX4oVMwEV9rIMFMsDNhjpr27QbJ4_JAGEKjFSSBkBjXzUkZPxVlSQbB60lm342o77VqCZwt_1YY_O7TYGXbSJsWAUn_oerC_bjWcRxoRc0D0rPT50ZEfAfiAX-uPd61PHmyzeP_MuPb9-tsFVbepRKZ9AJHNzE9i8/s320/FB_IMG_6632869631885756985.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="180" /></a><br>
</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'> </span></i><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'>“Bears écriture feminine into the twenty-first
century with grace, wit, and incredible technical dexterity.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>—<b>Kristina
Marie Darling</b>, author of <i>Daylight Has Already Come</i> and <i>Look
to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></i><i style='font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 16px;'>_____________________________________</i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'>“</span><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Lisa B’s stunning new book weaves together body, spirituality, politics, and the
world we live in….Fierce, feminist, and
necessary...this engaging collection will stir your mind and bring you
into beauty, into ‘a place so much more multiple than one god’s face.’
” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>—<b>Kelli
Russell Agodon</b>, author of <i>Hourglass Museum</i> and <i>Dialogues
with Rising Tides<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></i><i style='font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 16px;'>_____________________________________</i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'>“A dazzling lyrical demonstration... She
takes us on a journey through ecstasy and pain: from the highs of great jazz
performance to the zen of blood testing for diabetes.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'>—<b>Lawrence R. Smith</b>, editor of Caliban<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'> </span><i style='font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 16px;'>_____________________________________</i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAWou7SLC3NQch8QE4398MafkViFNDApxucp9jD7FGW9U2oH59i8d76i-62EhTuc3N8_VHkRmrBtV8ULBihN0LkSh4tW_rIGGhhhOniXI1aZu7f-b0fo79ZAPyELEM4FQUZ_LBj8OXEmueqtVOHDiERU1aL3XQ9gULAZu6ptJo3T3qf0HkGGM107srNME/s1280/Sean%20Singer%20story%20graphic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAWou7SLC3NQch8QE4398MafkViFNDApxucp9jD7FGW9U2oH59i8d76i-62EhTuc3N8_VHkRmrBtV8ULBihN0LkSh4tW_rIGGhhhOniXI1aZu7f-b0fo79ZAPyELEM4FQUZ_LBj8OXEmueqtVOHDiERU1aL3XQ9gULAZu6ptJo3T3qf0HkGGM107srNME/s320/Sean%20Singer%20story%20graphic.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="180" /></a></div><br><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'><br></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'>“Effortlessly surprising, thoughtful, and
inventive...musical and rhythmical above all...[poems on] the physicality of
jazz, the physicality of spirituality, and the self hearing all her edges and
hinges through illness, pleasure, and doubt.” </span><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>—<b>Sean
Singer</b>, author of <i>Honey & Smoke</i> and<i> Today in the
Taxi</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><i style='font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 16px;'>_____________________________________</i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEird_uRWAL7GShXWDiaKYZLzat7x3WnhZ-uUGFmXXKbSJ2pf1akIZsYs-kReH8LefzN-TrdhUX83sizH4yB1xhKEJHKRXdd0dWomt7HgJAhCzwzK-AWiuf_JCuQf2Dr3ktUHY6p2JZw-6HprnM-dyjhAiK-MZAMIGR6DOTVnUw3THQxB4i0Yibw-5FtpCo/s1198/FB_IMG_8039512991008445791.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEird_uRWAL7GShXWDiaKYZLzat7x3WnhZ-uUGFmXXKbSJ2pf1akIZsYs-kReH8LefzN-TrdhUX83sizH4yB1xhKEJHKRXdd0dWomt7HgJAhCzwzK-AWiuf_JCuQf2Dr3ktUHY6p2JZw-6HprnM-dyjhAiK-MZAMIGR6DOTVnUw3THQxB4i0Yibw-5FtpCo/s320/FB_IMG_8039512991008445791.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="192" /></a></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'>“Offers a series of superb poems about...jazz
greats...[and other poems] that call down the spirit in ways that are at once
promiscuous and defiant.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style='font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>—<b>Daniel
Tiffany</b>, author of <i>Cry Baby Mystic </i>and <i>My Silver
Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><i style='font-family: Georgia, "serif"; font-size: 16px;'>_____________________________________</i></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">L</span></b>ook for upcoming posts about poetry readings and workshops! If any of you would like to review the book or interview me, of course I'd be glad to accommodate you. <br></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">And please <a href="https://lisabmusic.com/contact" target="_blank">contact me and/or join my mailing list</a> for updates direct to your email box. </span>
</div><p></p>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/6493222
2020-12-06T21:29:00-08:00
2022-06-18T20:12:02-07:00
New Video of "Warrior Cat"!
<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">his past year has made us all warriors. So I've been thinking especially about "Warrior Cat." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(And it didn't hurt that in July I adopted two outgoing, affectionate tortoiseshell kittens after the untimely death of my beloved German Shepherd in April. Back to the universe of cats.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Warrior Cat" explores, models, leaps on how to be a warrior -- not in the tanked-up way most often presented in our culture, but a warrior in the way a cat is, and the way a writer is. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With grooving music by Scott R. Looney and me, powered by live drumming by the late, great Paul van Wagenginen. Engineered and mastered by my longtime compatriot James (Jim) Gardiner, of Pajama Studios, twice Grammy-nominated and with 42 gold- and platinum-certifed records.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The tune came out on my 2006 record, "What's New, Pussycat?," about the feline side of being human, or put another way, about cats actual and symbolic. Magic, cool, warm, transcendent, domestic. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b>2</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">020 has been tough. So I made a new video for the year of the warrior cat.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="432" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zA865x0ZVcc" width="520" youtube-src-id="zA865x0ZVcc"></iframe></div><br> <p></p>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290406
2020-11-23T22:20:00-08:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
"Reverberant: Poems & Music": Latest Videos and News
<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>W</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">ith the growing prevalence of Facebook and Twitter, I haven't been posting as much as I used to. Ah, the early days of blogging! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But I wanted to come back so you might be able to find this. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It's been wonderful to release "Reverberant: Poems & Music" in the spirit of finally foregrounding some of my free-verse poems originally written for the page, transforming them in performances with music. My marvelous collaborators are some of my favorite musicians -- pianists Ben Flint and Scott R. Looney, bassist Marcus Shelby, drummer Jeff Marrs, and the masterful Jim (James) Gardiner playing all of the above and more as well as contributing his expert, nuanced engineering skills (42 gold- and platinum-certified records plus lots of work since then will earn you those).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Many of the poems from the record appeared in esteemed literary magazines: Brilliant Corners, Caliban, The Kenyon Review, Lilith, and Sequestrum. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These pieces all focus on reverberation, both literal (resonance) and metaphorical (repercussions). They are jazz homages (Max, Cecil, Billie, and a bassist modeled on Ron Carter) and tales of spiritual self-realization -- sometimes both at once. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here's a mashup of selected cuts on the record, organized by the motifs of sound, loneliness, light, and singing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="378" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FwvznP2qDwM" width="455" youtube-src-id="FwvznP2qDwM"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Check out the press "Reverberant" garnered <a href="https://lisabmusic.com/press-3-newest-albums-roundup#reverberant-poems-music" target="_blank">here</a> and the<a href="https://lisabmusic.com/radio" target="_blank"> radio play</a> it achieved (and I'm still adding more)!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">xtra fun of late has been creating new videos for the selections on the new record that include my singing: "Some Things To Do with Pain" (a true guided meditation with a groove and visuals), "Lisa's Lord's Prayers," and "Billie Goes Home/Lover Man." Check 'em out below.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Please comment, find me on social media, or go to the <a href="https://lisabmusic.com/contact" target="_blank">contact</a> page on my website to say hello. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I appreciate your attention and feedback. Truly. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="394" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/44o8rLi-1kY" width="473" youtube-src-id="44o8rLi-1kY"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="415" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0DUZum3TxDI" width="499" youtube-src-id="0DUZum3TxDI"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="398" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K49SS45suIU" width="479" youtube-src-id="K49SS45suIU"></iframe></div><br><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span><p></p>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290407
2019-03-18T22:23:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
New Single Release: "I Am an Orchestra: A Tribute to Cecil Taylor"!
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b>he legendary pianist Cecil Taylor passed away almost a year ago, on April 5, 2018.</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>To honor him, I released this new single: a poem to the accompaniment of brilliant pianist Scott R. Looney. Engineering is by my longtime collaborator, James (Jim) Gardiner, at Pajama Studios. </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UxvEUUZOwP8/XJB6m3A_XQI/AAAAAAAAEko/RInwTX65Ynozdwkb-TsVJ1ZRxWQJfgOPgCLcBGAs/s1600/I%2BAm%2BAn%2BOrchestra_A%2BTribute%2Bto%2BCecil%2BTaylor_Lisa%2BB%2Baka%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bwith%2BScott%2BR.%2BLooney_single%2Bcover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UxvEUUZOwP8/XJB6m3A_XQI/AAAAAAAAEko/RInwTX65Ynozdwkb-TsVJ1ZRxWQJfgOPgCLcBGAs/s320/I%2BAm%2BAn%2BOrchestra_A%2BTribute%2Bto%2BCecil%2BTaylor_Lisa%2BB%2Baka%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bwith%2BScott%2BR.%2BLooney_single%2Bcover.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="320" /></a>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>You can check out my <a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2018/04/cecil-taylor.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> reminiscing about my personal contact with Cecil in childhood and thereafter. Plus there you can find a written version of the poem we just recorded. Reading it, I see it took on another life in multiple dimensions existing in this musical dialogue with pianist Scott. </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span></b>ere's some of where you can hear (stream, download, share) this exciting music, or see all platform links at right:</span><br><br>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
OpenSpotify: <a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5w7pssjYLBjdMBTIWL8Oc4" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/album/5w7pssjYLBjdMBTIWL8Oc4</a>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Amazon: <a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PM8N1XZ/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PM8N1XZ/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp</a>
</div><div id="x_x_signature" style='-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212121; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;'>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">
</div>
<div id="x_x_x_signature" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Apple/iTunes:</div>
</div>
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-am-an-orchestra-feat-scott-r-looney-single/1456219888" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-am-an-orchestra-feat-scott-r-looney-single/1456219888</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span></b>lease let me know how you like it! And share this post! </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>May this piece send up a flare to the utterly unique genius of Cecil, wherever he is. </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><script async="" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1021628189508425" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script></span>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290408
2018-04-11T20:15:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
Cecil Taylor
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4mLHB1BOSeU/Ws7K-bWkdgI/AAAAAAAAEHw/5Ok7TaP2zsMobjbom2G4ArCgQPMkmx2uQCLcBGAs/s1600/Cecil%2BTaylor%2B198%2B29%2Badj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4mLHB1BOSeU/Ws7K-bWkdgI/AAAAAAAAEHw/5Ok7TaP2zsMobjbom2G4ArCgQPMkmx2uQCLcBGAs/s400/Cecil%2BTaylor%2B198%2B29%2Badj.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Cecil Taylor, copyright Lenny Bernstein" height="400" width="288" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cecil Taylor, copyright Lenny Bernstein</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> met Cecil as a rather young girl</span></span></span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>—</span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-size: large;">he was a friend of my parents and a visitor to my home</span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><span style="font-size: large;">. He asked me, the then-classical-piano-student, to play Beethoven for him, but I was too shy to sit down and do it. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Cecil probably was even shyer than I back then; </span><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>he made the request through my Dad and couldn't really look at me. So we were then two shy people of very different ages wanting to connect. He did speak, though, about his childhood of practicing Beethoven and other composers, and how strict his mother was with him about it, which was a bit scary to me as a child. </span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>I heard (and saw) him perform with his group around the same time, unable to really process the music but deeply affected by it. Such physically, emotionally, and mentally cataclysmic sound!</span></span><br>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">Years later, as an adult, I saw and heard him many times, at Kimball's and Grace Cathedral </span></span><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>in San Francisco</span><span style='color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>, and the old Yoshi's and the new Yoshi's in Oakland, among other venues, both onstage and backstage. Cecil visited my folks' home again, bought a number of my Dad's gorgeous photos of him, and commented kindly on my poems. And my parents had all of his recordings. </span><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> </span><br>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<br>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cZPMAq1vEjk/Ws7K7kPBMpI/AAAAAAAAEH4/ZadV7-XR_kEM-LfZAKK1A4W7cv8saHrCgCEwYBhgL/s1600/Cecil%2BTaylor%2B198%2B5%2Badj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cZPMAq1vEjk/Ws7K7kPBMpI/AAAAAAAAEH4/ZadV7-XR_kEM-LfZAKK1A4W7cv8saHrCgCEwYBhgL/s400/Cecil%2BTaylor%2B198%2B5%2Badj.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Cecil Taylor, copyright Lenny Bernstein" height="267" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cecil Taylor, copyright Lenny Bernstein</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">f course he was an unforgettable genius, and my experience of music was changed forever after hearing his as a child. Like the work of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Cecil's showed that poetry and jazz could be united onstage, and not just by blowing some words over an unconnected jazz background. Though I felt that his music was more evolved than his poetry, that lesson marked me deeply.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>As a character, a creator, a person, there was no other like him. </span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Thank you, Cecil.</span></span><br>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<br>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-05-ecFEOhKA/Ws7LLsnRIjI/AAAAAAAAEIA/jZ_8gA33diAijqDGePSByars27QIqp5PACEwYBhgL/s1600/Cecil%2BTaylor%2B267%2B15%2Badj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-05-ecFEOhKA/Ws7LLsnRIjI/AAAAAAAAEIA/jZ_8gA33diAijqDGePSByars27QIqp5PACEwYBhgL/s400/Cecil%2BTaylor%2B267%2B15%2Badj.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Cecil Taylor, copyright Lenny Bernstein" height="400" width="343" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cecil Taylor backstage, copyright Lenny Bernstein</i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>In this previously unpublished poem about him, the quotes from Cecil are not actual quotes, but rather my poetic expression of what I imagine to be excerpts in his inner voice and about his internal journey</span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>—</span><span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>though the part about the backstage gossip is literally true (and a mere fraction of the other tales he told, dramatically, thoughtfully, ruefully, as the true storyteller he was). </span><br>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style='font-family: "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style='font-family: "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style='font-family: "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style='font-family: "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style='font-family: "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style='font-family: "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: x-large;">Cecil Taylor: I Am An Orchestra</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>BASH
the affectionate<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>black-and-white
scale of his Bosendorfer<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>keyboard
is raked right to left—oh<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>voices
are<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>calling<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>and
he is marvelously<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>replying. “I<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>—I
am an orchestra,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>a
brontasaura,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>and
the scales fall<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>from
my fingers,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>groaning
and sighing,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>falling
from the San Francisco skyline,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>this
afternoon's sunlight-on-shingles <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>lifting
from silver cupolas—”<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>The
din<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>orchestrates<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>a
rent in time<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>through
which the heads<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>of
Horus, Osiris<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>travel,
dragging their little dogs<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>“It’s
my world,”<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>says
Cecil,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>“not
my undoing.”<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>In
the dressing room,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>too
delicate to pull the peach chiffon<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>curtains
closed along the rod,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>he
is slyly telling stories<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>on
Oscar Peterson.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>But
before the crowd<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>hear
in the crashing<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>body
body<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>ribs
fingers<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>arrayed
keys black pressed<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>grapes
hear in this <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>jade
black wine<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>rage
forgiving its own sadness.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>“Hear
me smash<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>through
the tombs<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>future
and past<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>and—
<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>a
glimpse<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>of
a human heart”<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>then
he bends his head<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>as
if entering a low door<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>through
the shiny black<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>Bosendorfer’s
hull<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>elbows
rise and fall<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>rowing<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>then
throwing back<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>his
head<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>—laughter<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>rollicking
under the chords.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>“Must
one always<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>have
a chord,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>a
world, a<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>richness?<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>Remember,
mama,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>though
I’m not past practice, <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>at
last the world listens<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>as
I cavort<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>like
a girl<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>let
me break<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>let
me take off<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>my
imaginary robe<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>let
me line up<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>the
clusters series of choruses<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>forests
faces each a door a<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>poem
a<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>BOOM<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">.”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "times new roman" , serif;'><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">copyright 2018 Lisa Bernstein</span></i></span>
</div>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290409
2017-11-12T14:45:00-08:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
How I Found the Courage to Sing
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;'><b>I</b> </span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>was a pretty bad singer for a long time after I found the guts to start officially singing.</span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dGL9VxoOHSw/Wgi86VR172I/AAAAAAAAD1g/X4BB_Y4YEfUlb3AWYQ2p4VOvATgn7qkkgCLcBGAs/s1600/abstract%2Bangles%2Bblue%2Bfrom%2Blisabmusic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dGL9VxoOHSw/Wgi86VR172I/AAAAAAAAD1g/X4BB_Y4YEfUlb3AWYQ2p4VOvATgn7qkkgCLcBGAs/s400/abstract%2Bangles%2Bblue%2Bfrom%2Blisabmusic.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="abstract angles from lisabmusic.com" height="240" width="400" /></span></a>
</div>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>How did I stand it? </span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>How did I tolerate the torment of trying to sound good, of knowing I had failed, and, even worse, knowing I would probably keep failing publicly, over and over, for some upcoming period of time? The embarrassment! The disappointment! </span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">And I’m talking just about the art of it. Forget the additional travails and rejection and dead ends of the marketing and collaboration required to get gigs and then actually do the shows. </span><br><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">y “officially singing,” I mean taking a Beginning Singers class, many years ago, at the wonderfully welcoming Blue Bear School of Music at San Francisco’s Fort Mason. I could justify this step to myself: I was giving frequent poetry readings, and taking a singing class would improve my performance. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">It would be fun, though scary. But the fun part wasn’t enough for me. I needed some kind of productivity angle. I was a bit driven, as my mother would put it – focused on perceptible achievement and problem-solving ever since I was a toddler. As a young woman, I still felt compelled to get things done, make my mark, even while honoring my inner creative impulses.</span></span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L_G3v0kOUe4/WgjFHK3p4BI/AAAAAAAAD2k/4-kIVmy5r9QdS5IMLvt8oskkn0KUlEg4ACLcBGAs/s1600/blue%2Bbear%2Blogo%2B1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L_G3v0kOUe4/WgjFHK3p4BI/AAAAAAAAD2k/4-kIVmy5r9QdS5IMLvt8oskkn0KUlEg4ACLcBGAs/s320/blue%2Bbear%2Blogo%2B1.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Blue Bear School of Music logo from lisabmusic.com" height="210" width="320" /></a></span></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br><span style="font-size: large;">Singing wasn’t going to be an art I would dedicate myself to. It was just, I told myself, something I wanted to explore, a basic skill set that would help my career as a poet, which was starting to go somewhere. Singing would be a way to expand my literary performance abilities.</span><br><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">ure, I had a foundation in music that I could stand on. I grew up hearing jazz and lots of other kinds of music that my parents, and then I, played on vinyl, radio, tapes. I had spent time with some genius jazz musicians who were friends of my folks (Jackie McLean, Cecil Taylor, Elvin Jones, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago actually visited our family home, some quite often). I had studied classical piano playing, gained a grasp of music theory, even written a couple of songs as a child. </span></span><br>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">And I had sung along to all kinds of music as a youngster in our living room – musicals like “West Side Story” and “Funny Girl,” singers such as Aretha and Carmen McRae, even the melodies of John Coltrane (“My Favorite Things”). And as I grew a bit older, I sang along with vocalists spanning Billie Holiday, Robert Plant, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Al Jarreau, the Supremes, and the great avant-garde jazz singer Jeanne Lee, to name just a few. </span></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N5RTKGaI3ds/Wgi9PLrbrWI/AAAAAAAAD1k/aeGfzJr4tzgg8GmnHoj7qkjeAOsDN3G6gCLcBGAs/s1600/Aretha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N5RTKGaI3ds/Wgi9PLrbrWI/AAAAAAAAD1k/aeGfzJr4tzgg8GmnHoj7qkjeAOsDN3G6gCLcBGAs/s320/Aretha.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Aretha from lisabmusic.com" height="265" width="320" /></span></a>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br><span style="font-size: large;">But actually become a singer? Impossible. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t have the voice. There was a lot about my singing to cringe over. There was no way I could measure up. Especially at the late age of 30. That would be like deciding to shoot hoops in the NBA at age 30. Who did that? Or so I told myself. </span><br><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">n singing, I felt far more exposed than in poetry writing. Even while singing a song by someone else, I felt much more vulnerable than I did writing, and performing, a poem about my deepest secrets. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">For one thing, I could show my early drafts of poems to a supportive circle of teachers and fellow poets, then revise them. By the time a poem lay shivering on the page awaiting the judgment of strangers at literary magazines, it was completed. I felt a baseline confidence, because my respected fellow writers understood the work and approved it. Even amid the sting of rejection I could think back to those trusted readers and feel buoyed by their backup.</span></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nyi6PAIAsqw/WgjGsCy4YaI/AAAAAAAAD2w/poqJ2bLExns5UsU2XXf4l9rDb5ltB6wFgCLcBGAs/s1600/writing%2BJournal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nyi6PAIAsqw/WgjGsCy4YaI/AAAAAAAAD2w/poqJ2bLExns5UsU2XXf4l9rDb5ltB6wFgCLcBGAs/s320/writing%2BJournal.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="writing journal from lisabmusic.com" height="320" width="203" /></a></span></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br><span style="font-size: large;">Not so with singing. A performing art, singing had to be done through the body. My body. In that moment. And this body was so damn variable. There was no perfecting a song in private. Practice, yes. Finished product, no. I could sound good one day and bad the next. I could control certain things sometimes and not others. Who knows what would happen that day, on that gig, in that lesson? A song was never finished. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">And it took a lot longer, with a lot more repetition, to train the body and acquire the technique I was slowly learning via classes and vocal lessons than it did to use my mind (and other equipment) to write poetry. The body was dumber. Slower. Bigger. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">As my longtime vocal coach Jane Sharp put it, there is an initial “cringe factor” period that most singers experience as they develop. It lasted quite a long time, it seemed, in my case. I had musical and interpretive ideas galore, but my “sound” came and went. </span><br><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">o you remember the first time you listened to a recording of yourself speaking, or, if you’re brave or a professional, singing? A shock, right? This isn’t how you heard yourself in your head as you were blithely vocalizing away. It couldn’t possibly be this bad.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">I suffered the torments of the damned whenever I listened to tapes of myself, whether from my early jazz and R&B band workshops at Blue Bear or my actual gigs a bit later. No, I couldn’t really sound like this! I suffered, I cried, I listened closely, I hid out, I worked with Jane and on my own to correct and expand my skills.</span></span><br>
<div>
<br>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rXc43KGQmlc/WgjIDCw039I/AAAAAAAAD28/8yFS6qQDJxgRaY2sOOxUZj6Qd1_YMKjZQCLcBGAs/s1600/StewartGif2%2BUnacceptable.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rXc43KGQmlc/WgjIDCw039I/AAAAAAAAD28/8yFS6qQDJxgRaY2sOOxUZj6Qd1_YMKjZQCLcBGAs/s1600/StewartGif2%2BUnacceptable.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></span></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">How did I stand all this mortification, without much evidence that I would improve? </span><br><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">ell, I had a secret source of courage. An ally beyond what I’ve mentioned. Not just drive. Not just ears filled with excellent music. Not just dedication to acquiring a bedrock of technique. Not just proof via my poetry journey that hard work could pay off artistically and careerwise. Not just knowing that part of what I was here on earth to do was to honor my creative path as an artist. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">It was something I had recently learned in the psychic training that I had begun the same year I enrolled in that first singing class. </span></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m74-4ZKCwjU/Wgi9wEuty5I/AAAAAAAAD1w/c3eOORbh1xsRDhDgzLjzbOHkPl9whyUVwCLcBGAs/s1600/Welcome-to-kindergarten-clipart-free-images-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m74-4ZKCwjU/Wgi9wEuty5I/AAAAAAAAD1w/c3eOORbh1xsRDhDgzLjzbOHkPl9whyUVwCLcBGAs/s400/Welcome-to-kindergarten-clipart-free-images-2.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Kindergarten from lisabmusic.com" height="116" width="400" /></span></a>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br>“Be in kindergarten.” <br><br>That was probably the most crucial lesson of the clairvoyant training I was undergoing. And it was revelatory. Maybe I had never really been “in kindergarten” even when I was in kindergarten – I remember being beset with the buzz of ideas and drive in my own head and body even then. <br><br>You see, it is impossible to start accessing and using your own psychic abilities – which, trust me, you too have – without this core technique. And it is a technique. “Be in kindergarten.”<br><br>As opposed to “being in effort.” Effort kills clairvoyance. If you try, you can’t see a thing. Try harder, as you have been taught to do in the rest of your life, and you will discover that you are way down in a black hole being blind.</span><br>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yJ0-FC0Zwsk/Wgi-IekWaDI/AAAAAAAAD14/SmeLu0LX4N0TfcjRuZVHG_3g967ThRM-ACEwYBhgL/s1600/attention_eyes%252C%2Bcentering%252C%2Band%2Bgrowth%2Bgraphic%2Bfrom%2Blisabmusic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yJ0-FC0Zwsk/Wgi-IekWaDI/AAAAAAAAD14/SmeLu0LX4N0TfcjRuZVHG_3g967ThRM-ACEwYBhgL/s320/attention_eyes%252C%2Bcentering%252C%2Band%2Bgrowth%2Bgraphic%2Bfrom%2Blisabmusic.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="seeing graphic from lisabmusic.com" height="320" width="320" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>
</span>
<br>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">“B</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">e in kindergarten” also is opposed to “being an adult.” Admittedly, we do want to bring some adult behaviors to a psychic reading or a musical rehearsal, such as taking turns, not running around the room, paying attention to timing. But now that I think about it, we learn a lot of this in kindergarten too. </span></span><br>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">I guess what I really mean by “being an adult” is being analytical and serious and highly responsible. Those skills aren’t bad, and you do need them. But you can at least consider complementing them with the very different approach of “being in kindergarten.” </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">Kindergarten encompasses allowing yourself the spirit of play, adventure, openness. Of entertaining the unpredictable. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">And, maybe more important, it means not judging yourself. You don’t have to measure up to anything much. You just get to be. You get to have the freedom of a child (at least, according to the image of childhood I gained in my developed-world, middle-class culture).</span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">Another way to put it is to “come as a little child,” as Jesus is said to have taught his followers as the way to enter the kingdom of heaven (which, by the way, is supposed to be within yourself). </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">“Beginner’s mind” is another similar idea, from Zen Buddhism. Be open-minded, eager. Stay away from the expectation of being an expert. Be a beginner.</span></span><br>
<br>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pb1XNAbY78A/WgjIr7QIHLI/AAAAAAAAD3E/IcMq6_ZEQCYjr-0tDF3KaeUpyk3BD8e_ACLcBGAs/s1600/kindergarten1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pb1XNAbY78A/WgjIr7QIHLI/AAAAAAAAD3E/IcMq6_ZEQCYjr-0tDF3KaeUpyk3BD8e_ACLcBGAs/s400/kindergarten1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="kindergarten class from lisabmusic.com" height="196" width="400" /></a></span></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">rmed with this approach, I let myself off the hook. The hook of having to be accomplished as I started singing. Of having to meet certain standards. I could stumble, bumble, screw up, choke, be off pitch, forget the words, forget the melody, have an unpleasant tone. And keep plunging ahead, open my voice, and sing. OK, I would suffer over all this. But it was permissible nonetheless.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">At the same time, I was working as hard as I could to sound better by honing various other vocal techniques, and seeking to gain other singerly skills. (Such as being able to learn the melody. Understand who my character was as I was singing. Listen to the band in various ways while singing and not singing. Figure out how to write musical charts and be a bandleader. Blah blah blah. A whole new world.) It was a new kind of fun to do both at once as a singer: be in kindergarten, while becoming more accomplished.</span></span><br>
<br>
</div>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BS8AEIKcWrY/Wgi--rX7moI/AAAAAAAAD2E/OEFqXe5XnTsAz-0-OJHlnH9fHJHQQoVZgCLcBGAs/s1600/Lisa%2BB%2Baka%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bfx%2Bsmiling%2Bon%2Ba%2Bgig_copyright%2BLenny%2BBernstein.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BS8AEIKcWrY/Wgi--rX7moI/AAAAAAAAD2E/OEFqXe5XnTsAz-0-OJHlnH9fHJHQQoVZgCLcBGAs/s400/Lisa%2BB%2Baka%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bfx%2Bsmiling%2Bon%2Ba%2Bgig_copyright%2BLenny%2BBernstein.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) on a gig early on" height="400" width="268" /></span></a>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>The psychic model of relaxing in order to see clairvoyantly had a parallel in singing, where being relaxed was crucial in the making of sound. But you also had to be energized. As both a psychic and a singer, I needed to cultivate a state of energized relaxation. Who knew? <br><br>This state turned out to be one I’d been entering for years as a poet too, though I didn’t call it that. I would trick myself into just scribbling something, drafting anything. Then I’d look at my output. Often I found it to be bad and put it aside. But at least I had written something. Then, six months later, I’d look at that draft again: maybe it wasn’t so bad. So I’d draw on my skills and start revising. <br><br>So it turned out that “being in kindergarten” was a technique I had unconsciously used as a writer. It was just another tool. Meanwhile, it was a technique among others I was practicing in clairvoyant class. All three of these disciplines – singing, psychic reading, and poetry writing – required me to both act like an adult and to come to them as a little child. <br><br>And then there’s the jazz musician part. For that, you really do have to be in kindergarten, because you have to improvise. That requires having integrated a lot of cool melodies, chord structures, and scales. Yet without the kindergarten part, your improvisations would be rote and boring. To create on the spot: the spirit of kindergarten.</span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hreC3jI5zWM/Wgi-nduvnMI/AAAAAAAAD2A/_8U3rQoiN_MRbBNxjvx-g94-iVWZEy1PgCLcBGAs/s1600/Music-notes-musical-clip-art-free-music-note-clipart-clipartandscrap-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hreC3jI5zWM/Wgi-nduvnMI/AAAAAAAAD2A/_8U3rQoiN_MRbBNxjvx-g94-iVWZEy1PgCLcBGAs/s320/Music-notes-musical-clip-art-free-music-note-clipart-clipartandscrap-2.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="music from lisabmusic.com" height="227" width="320" /></span></a>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br><br><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">or me, singing itself was giving myself permission to play, and include my body in that play, and it was reserving a part of the experience for the tolerance of failure. Not merely private failure, as in poetry writing, but semi-public failure. Yet I could melt through the profound fear of failure by trusting in the technique of cultivating a childlike attitude. It was OK to screw up. Loudly. Embarrassingly. Because to be a child was to have the freedom to just play without achieving anything. </span></span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">The courage to regain the childlike impulse to “just do it,” forgiving myself for not meeting certain achievement standards initially, also meant realizing that I had other inherent things to give while honing my craft in public. I couldn’t suppress those other appealing qualities – because they were part of myself. They weren’t the result of effort but there to be expressed. </span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">I discovered that my presence, my own wisdom, if truly revealed and expressed in a song, even if imperfectly, were meaningful to others. And I know in my gut that this ability to be present fully on stage is linked to the ability to be “in kindergarten.” The performer, like the child, reveals part of her authentic self, no matter what veneer or costume she also employs.</span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xdp2ykf-Vkk/WgjMiK5_7VI/AAAAAAAAD3k/03qLnXMxwl0BDcauDfqmlbq1x_ghH6uLACEwYBhgL/s1600/Lisa%2BB%2Bfront%2Bwith%2BPeter%2BBarshay_image%2B2%2Bby%2BLana%2BSmith%2BCallies.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xdp2ykf-Vkk/WgjMiK5_7VI/AAAAAAAAD3k/03qLnXMxwl0BDcauDfqmlbq1x_ghH6uLACEwYBhgL/s320/Lisa%2BB%2Bfront%2Bwith%2BPeter%2BBarshay_image%2B2%2Bby%2BLana%2BSmith%2BCallies.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and Peter Barshay" height="314" width="320" /></a></span></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">o do what we want to do as singers, as creators, as humans, we need all of what I’ve written about here: determination, hard work, talent, <i>trust</i> in our inner talents, a solid set of techniques, the support of teachers and peers, and the opportunity and time to grow and improve. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">And we need that other ingredient, which isn’t emphasized much in our culture of achievement: the freedom of the child within each of us, before doubt or shame or outer strictures have corrupted it. We need to be in that space where learning and playing are the same thing.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">Try being in kindergarten when you do something you already know how to do. Cooking. Petting a dog. Some activity you do on your job. What does it feel like to revisit that activity in a fresh, more open, un-self-judging way? </span><br><br><span style="font-size: large;">And try pretending you’re in kindergarten while doing something you don’t already know how to do. Notice how that feels. </span></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cwF-EVwTzqM/Wgi_ceentWI/AAAAAAAAD2M/q7hsyibYuJgDh_NzJIZGJgPrMDbNdMgPQCLcBGAs/s1600/welcome%2Bto%2BKindergarten-clip-art-to-download-4.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'></span></a>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br><span style="font-size: large;">I’m imagining you considering doing this now as if you’re staring up at a rollercoaster. It’s big, it’s rattling, screams of excitement float down from above you. Riding it is risky. It’s playful, it’s unknown. Go buy the ticket.</span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BK7QW2VY0lE/WgjKYUDnV3I/AAAAAAAAD3U/OmHuTqFRiZEK62Gp1yN42JKhiI2erwgGwCLcBGAs/s1600/rollercoaster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BK7QW2VY0lE/WgjKYUDnV3I/AAAAAAAAD3U/OmHuTqFRiZEK62Gp1yN42JKhiI2erwgGwCLcBGAs/s400/rollercoaster.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="266" width="400" /></a></span></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I</b> </span></span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>did start to sound a lot better, and sing well more reliably. And I learned to get used to (freak out less over) the body’s natural variations, and to keep taking risks as a singer and record producer. </span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>As I write this, I’m in the middle of a <a href="http://igg.me/at/igetakick" target="_blank">crowdfunding campaign</a> to help launch my sixth record as a leader, “I Get A Kick: Cole Porter Reimagined,” due out on the Jazzed Media label in January 2018. Asking my tribe(s) for help is a risk. But since I now am fairly practiced at being in kindergarten, I put my head down and went forward with it, letting myself enter the unfamiliar territory. </span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>If you’re reading this before Thanksgiving 2017, I hope you can join me <a href="http://igg.me/at/igetakick" target="_blank">there</a>. I offer many different perks; one of them is a discounted coaching session in which we can work together on making your own goals come true</span><span style="font-size: large;"> – </span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>and finding kindergarten along the way. </span>
</div>
<div>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WgXmySXPEBs/WgjClvy7N5I/AAAAAAAAD2Y/9DUlMSeo4zQgjNne9JNC_eercWo-MmTjACLcBGAs/s1600/Help%2BLaunch%2BI%2BGet%2BA%2BKick%2Bfb%2Bfrom%2Blisabmusic.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WgXmySXPEBs/WgjClvy7N5I/AAAAAAAAD2Y/9DUlMSeo4zQgjNne9JNC_eercWo-MmTjACLcBGAs/s400/Help%2BLaunch%2BI%2BGet%2BA%2BKick%2Bfb%2Bfrom%2Blisabmusic.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Help launch Lisa B's I Get A Kick: Cole Porter Reimagined at Indiegogo.com" height="335" width="400" /></a>
</div>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>copyright </i></span></span><i style='background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 16.5455px;'>© </i><i style='font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;'>2017 Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)</i><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;'> </span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290410
2017-10-22T20:02:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
Ted Panken's Liner Notes for "I Get A Kick: Cole Porter Reimagined" (Jazzed Media 1/19/18)
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: large;">A True American Original</span></b><o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> <span style="font-size: large;"><b> I</b></span>n my booklet notes for Lisa B’s second full-length
album, <i>Center of the Rhyme </i>(2003), which
comprised her striking original compositions and collaborations, I described
the Oakland-based singer-poet as “a rugged individualist of the jazz tribe
[who] articulates her accomplished narrative with a tonal personality entirely
her own.” Fifteen years later, on her sixth CD, B embodies those same qualities
in a distinctive homage to Cole Porter (1891-1964).</span></span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-96XGxSUwpE4/We1X6SuUYiI/AAAAAAAADyI/2br1c5-ysJQkzwYR5I2_ABzzRPXbyFzJgCLcBGAs/s1600/LisaB%2BColePorter-cover%2B1400px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-96XGxSUwpE4/We1X6SuUYiI/AAAAAAAADyI/2br1c5-ysJQkzwYR5I2_ABzzRPXbyFzJgCLcBGAs/s320/LisaB%2BColePorter-cover%2B1400px.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Cover "I Get A Kick: Cole Porter Reimagined" by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) from Jazzed Media 1/18 (photo by William Duke)" height="288" width="320" /></a></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> She places her lovely instrument at the service of ten
songs composed for stage and screen between 1929 (“Wake Up and Dream”) and 1954
(“All of You”). With the freewheeling control of the raw materials that only
the finest jazz practitioners possess, B (short for Bernstein) takes possession
of Porter’s witty, poignant stories. She deploys her considerable
interpretative vocal gifts to deliver the message, occasionally interpolating her
own spoken word passages for an evocative multilayered effect (on “What Is
This Thing Called Love?” [1929], “I Happen to Like New York” [1931], and “Night
and Day” [1932]).<o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> <span style="font-size: large;"><b> L</b></span>isa B’s approach to Porter echoes her remarks about the
Art Ensemble of Chicago—a deep if not obvious influence—during one of our first
conversations. “Their goal is to create a whole from various sources,” she
said. “I love their ‘It's all possible’ attitude, the complete artistic freedom
and invention they personify, their incredible versatility and dedication to
craft and discipline.”<o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> B’s first documented immersion in Cole Porter’s work is
on her 2006 CD <i>What’s New, Pussycat?</i>,
where she augmented a suite of largely original songs with interpretations of
“Night and Day” and “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” (1942), presented here
in remastered form.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>“I</b></span> got a lot of positive reaction to both tunes,” B says,
explaining her decision to focus on Porter’s songs, and not her own, as the
creative springboard for this project. “I feel a real affinity with him; it’s
also fun to inhabit someone else’s work and take a left turn with it. Porter
was such a brilliant songwriter, both a composer and a lyricist. What he’s
doing seems simple maybe, and then you get into it, and just a little half-step
and he’s in a whole different place. Also, he was gay or bisexual, but pretty
closeted—there’s this sense of longing and heartbreak and isolation, as well as
being Mister Society Guy. And there’s the wit, commenting not only on high society
but also on the larger society. You always feel he’s the outsider on the
inside. His body of work has a more profound doubleness than most of the Great
American Songbook.”<o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V60Gjn5UFBg/We1eoj8_XOI/AAAAAAAADyg/olpd6OB-aDIbouJ1OzeNBJqu2lQ9S5X2wCLcBGAs/s1600/Lisa%2BB%2B%2528Lisa%2BBernstein%2529%2Bstanding%2Bin%2Btux%2B038C.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V60Gjn5UFBg/We1eoj8_XOI/AAAAAAAADyg/olpd6OB-aDIbouJ1OzeNBJqu2lQ9S5X2wCLcBGAs/s400/Lisa%2BB%2B%2528Lisa%2BBernstein%2529%2Bstanding%2Bin%2Btux%2B038C.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) on back cover of "I Get A Kick: Cole Porter Reimagined" (photo by William Duke)" height="400" width="255" /></a><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><b> I</b></span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>n culling Porter’s corpus for tunes that could serve as
vehicles for “adventurous interpretations that have not been done before” (B’s
goal), she relied, of course, on personal taste (“probably it leans towards
love songs”), but also on her encyclopedic knowledge of American music canons.</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> Consider how she starts the CD-opening “I Get A Kick Out of
You” (1934), sing-speaking the verse in duo with Fred Randolph’s conversational
bass accompaniment. As the drums enter and the pace ratchets to edgy
fingerpopping swing, she illuminates the lyric with luminous timbre and precise
articulation, then transitions seamlessly to a pair of original vocalese
choruses.</span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> She signifies on the eternal question posed by “What Is
This Thing Called Love?” with a lengthy spoken word declamation over a beguine
rhythm, backdropped by a horn section (B’s long-time collaborator and co-producer,
Jim Gardiner, executes all the instruments on this track except for Jeff Marrs’
drums). <o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> And her intense, erotic reading of “In the Still of the
Night” (1937) includes Michael Zilber’s keening soprano saxophone obbligatos
and a funky rhythmic base inspired by Randy Weston’s Monkish approach on his
1954 debut recording.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>B</b></span> also stimulates the senses when rendering the songs
straight-no-chaser. That’s evident in her clarion reading of the less-traveled
“Wake Up and Dream,” which she describes as “a dreamy, inspiring waltz,” and
the yearning she evokes on the more oft-covered “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home
To,” counterstated by a percolating bossa beat. <o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> On “I Happen to Like New York” she melds straight
interpretation with pure imagination: after a fondly ironic opening vignette
depicting the arrival of her grandparents, Sonia and Solomon, from the old
country to Ellis Island on July 4, 1923, she morphs into Porter’s heartfelt
paean to the “new city” into which they disembark.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> The image of arriving into a new city is an apt metaphor
for the fresh, in-the-moment approach that Lisa B, a true American original,
brings to every second of this inspired recital.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>—<i><b>Ted Panken</b></i>, Downbeat critic, recipient of the
Jazz Journalists Association 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award </span><o:p></o:p>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290411
2016-06-10T19:27:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
Your Fears Are Not You
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">s I'm starting to prepare to release my new recording project ("I Get A Kick: Cole Porter Reimagined" from the Jazzed Media label in January 2018 -- lots more on that to come!), of course a few doubts and fears are getting kicked up in my personal reality. </span></span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>So it's great timing to share this new blog post from my psychic reader-healer-coach space: an inspiring story about a client of mine who faced down her fears about an exciting new job opportunity. </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>I learn a lot from my clients. Read on...</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;'><br></span>
<br>
<div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 15px 4px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'>
<span style='background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: "droid serif" , serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">F</strong></span><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">ear is a feeling. And like all feelings or emotions, it is physical. That is, fear mainly has to do with the body.</span></strong><img src="https://lisabintuitive.com/img/fearful_woman_image-courtesy-of-microsoft-office-clip-art.jpg" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="fearful woman from lisabintuitive.com" height="264" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" width="260" /></span></span></span>
</div>
<div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 15px 4px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'>
<span style='background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: "droid serif" , serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'><span style="font-size: large;">Despite its physicality, fear can keep you, the spirit, from moving forward.</span></span>
</div>
<div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 15px 4px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'>
<span style='background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: "droid serif" , serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'><span style="font-size: large;">I help many of my clairvoyant reading clients work through their fears. It makes sense that fear often comes up in a reading. Usually, someone contacts me because they want to make a change, embark on a new direction, or get guidance about an opportunity or decision. With the contemplation of risk, some fear may light up<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> – </span>followed by a request for help.</span></span>
</div>
<div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 15px 4px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'>
<span style='background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: "droid serif" , serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">M</strong></span>y neutral, clairvoyant response (with a dash of calm Jewish mother) is twofold: 1) assess the present situation and 2) check out the fear that it has triggered for the person. Then we can narrow the gap between the two – the upcoming opportunity vs. the fears – noticing whether the latter really have anything to do with the former, or instead are spectres from the past.</span></span>
</div>
<div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 15px 4px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'>
<span style='background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; font-family: "droid serif" , serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">that </em>insight is the gift you want to get to. The opening feeling of possibility <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">now</em>.</span></strong></span>
</div>
<div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 15px 4px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'>
<span style='background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; font-family: "droid serif" , serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: maroon; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">I</span></strong></span><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.48px;">’ve been working regularly with someone on a mission to improve her financial situation. I’ll call her Marjorie (and never fear, she approved this blog post). A job opportunity had come up within her current workplace, a government office, that piqued her interest, but she had some reluctance about pursuing it. It would be more interesting than her current position, with better pay and improved status. Still, she felt torn about applying. I took a look at it and saw that it was a great opportunity for her.</span></span></strong></span>
</div>
<div style='background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px 15px 4px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;'>
<b style='color: blue; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; line-height: 1.4em;'><span style="font-size: large;">Click <a href="http://lisabintuitive.com/intuitive_blog_through_616/dont_fear_your_fears/" target="_blank">here</a> to read more about Marjorie's story...</span></b>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290412
2016-04-23T16:25:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
Dynamic Jazz Performance Photography from Lenny Bernstein/Jazz Jones Photos
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vK4VRBAysPc/Vxvua-eQUYI/AAAAAAAABMQ/bMP1scUD8iE7RrsCvfoPQ3AznQI9B2KfgCLcB/s1600/Wayne%2BShorter%2B770%2B29%2Badj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vK4VRBAysPc/Vxvua-eQUYI/AAAAAAAABMQ/bMP1scUD8iE7RrsCvfoPQ3AznQI9B2KfgCLcB/s400/Wayne%2BShorter%2B770%2B29%2Badj.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Wayne Shorter, photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com" height="318" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style='font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wayne Shorter</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br><span style="font-size: x-small;">(photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com)</span></span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b>he recently launched website <a href="http://www.jazzjonesphotos.com/" target="_blank">Jazz Jones Photos</a> is the place to go for compelling live jazz performance photography.</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>The site showcases the work of photographer Lenny Bernstein. Check out dynamic shots of hundreds of musicians and vocalists, from Anthony Braxton, Michael Brecker, and Lester Bowie to Jeff "Tain" Watts, Joe Williams, and Randy Weston, and everyone you can think of in between. More photos are being added all the time. </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E9yPbkf3Qm4/Vxv4Q4LXkII/AAAAAAAABNE/3n4xO0yMDeMkg3o3VORJs31QWqU4-y8xQCLcB/s1600/Bruce%2BForman%2B244_14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E9yPbkf3Qm4/Vxv4Q4LXkII/AAAAAAAABNE/3n4xO0yMDeMkg3o3VORJs31QWqU4-y8xQCLcB/s400/Bruce%2BForman%2B244_14.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Bruce Forman, photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com" height="400" width="286" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style='font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bruce Forman</b></span><br><span style="font-size: x-small;">(photo copyright Lenny Bernstein,jazzjonesphotos.com)</span></span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>All photos are copyright-protected, but Jazz Jones offers very reasonable licensing fees. <a href="http://www.jazzjonesphotos.com/contact.htm" target="_blank">Contact</a> Lenny and his staff for permissions and the digital files and/or prints you need.</span><br>
<br>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">
<br>
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AMZhKHDSACU/VxwDeiZVHDI/AAAAAAAABN4/Z0iqZBy5HdwYW8Q4DGcwCN7OcL2k_46uQCLcB/s1600/Cindy%2BBlackman%2BSantana%2B207%2B6%2Brescan%2Badj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AMZhKHDSACU/VxwDeiZVHDI/AAAAAAAABN4/Z0iqZBy5HdwYW8Q4DGcwCN7OcL2k_46uQCLcB/s400/Cindy%2BBlackman%2BSantana%2B207%2B6%2Brescan%2Badj.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Cindy Blackman Santana, photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com" height="250" width="400" /></a>
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style='font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;'><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Cindy Blackman Santana</span></b><br>(photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com)</i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b>n Lenny Bernstein's work, you won't find artful black-and-white compositions conjuring up nostalgia for a bygone jazz era. He does not romanticize jazz. Rather, he captures and amplifies the dynamic moment of music-making. His photos show the player deeply inside the music, and the music deeply inside the player. The two elements exist inseparably in his images.</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>In these photos, the music and the player are still moving in time. Here you don't see etched shadows of black and white: you enter vivid color. And you don't see an isolated portrait of a musician in the footlights: you experience the musician in the multi-hued act of creation and communication. That act of jazz music-making as revealed here is both personal and communal, involving both private reverie and collective inspiration.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MHeWTZfUkVw/VxvyiRoN_xI/AAAAAAAABMo/4uKV5O2RI5QLg6LE9NolebpPCK-VfNjUQCKgB/s1600/Bobby%2BHutcherson%2B669%2B29%2Badj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MHeWTZfUkVw/VxvyiRoN_xI/AAAAAAAABMo/4uKV5O2RI5QLg6LE9NolebpPCK-VfNjUQCKgB/s400/Bobby%2BHutcherson%2B669%2B29%2Badj.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Bobby Hutcherson, photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com" height="400" width="312" /></a>
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style='font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bobby Hutcherson</b></span><br>(<span style="font-size: x-small;">photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com)</span></span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br></span></b></span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Y</span></b>ou might say that Lenny Bernstein's photography arises first of all from his experience of what jazz musicians invariably refer to simply as “the music.” He doesn't seek to freeze the music or the musician — he allows the music and its players to generate the image. Look: and listen again.</span><br>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">L</span></b>enny Bernstein is the co-author, with Reginald Carver, of <i><a href="http://www.jazzjonesphotos.com/book.htm" target="_blank">Jazz Profiles: The Spirit of the Nineties</a> </i>from Billboard Books. His </span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>photographs are permanently exhibited at California State University, Monterey Bay. They have been shown at Yoshi's Jazz Club, Oakland; the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz; and the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County. The Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and others have licensed Mr. Bernstein's photographs for use, including such publications as Art Forum, The Atlantic, The Economist, Forbes, Gourmet, Harper's, House Beautiful, Interview, New York Magazine, the New York Times, Saveur, and Vanity Fair.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qEAL5C63K7w/VxvtK8NPxLI/AAAAAAAABMI/OUUogjX4FDsmOlx-q4cGwRSIMSIUIdryACLcB/s1600/Lenny%2BBernstein%2BIMG_0090.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qEAL5C63K7w/VxvtK8NPxLI/AAAAAAAABMI/OUUogjX4FDsmOlx-q4cGwRSIMSIUIdryACLcB/s320/Lenny%2BBernstein%2BIMG_0090.JPG" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Lenny Bernstein of jazzjonesphotos.com" height="178" width="320" /></a>
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style='font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Photographer Lenny Bernstein </b></span><br><span style="font-size: x-small;">of jazzjonesphotos.com</span></span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> </span>
</div>
<div>
<br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>An electronics engineer, attorney, and WWII veteran as well as professional photographer, Bernstein writes, </span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>"I spent a great deal of time at Yoshi's in Oakland, Keystone Korner and the Both/And in San Francisco, and Kuumbwa Jazz in Santa Cruz, along with the Monterey Jazz Festival and other clubs and concerts. In these settings, I photographed more than 1,000 jazz musicians in m</span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>ore than 30,000 photographs. What you see here is only a small selection from my archives."</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>(Since this post appears on her blog, it's worth noting that Lenny Bernstein's daughter is the singer, poet, and intuitive Lisa B, aka Lisa Bernstein. His website includes some instrumental versions of her compositions.)</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NiczYjCCF00/VxwBkUhJiZI/AAAAAAAABNk/GiCKLN3dD90amPrENDRAV9MHEtoQDiqOwCLcB/s1600/Jason%2BMoran%2B806_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NiczYjCCF00/VxwBkUhJiZI/AAAAAAAABNk/GiCKLN3dD90amPrENDRAV9MHEtoQDiqOwCLcB/s400/Jason%2BMoran%2B806_3.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Jason Moran, photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com" height="400" width="350" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style='font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;'><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jason Moran</span></b><br><span style="font-size: x-small;">(photo copyright Lenny Bernstein, jazzjonesphotos.com)</span></span></i></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<br>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290413
2016-02-09T22:49:00-08:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
Poems by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) in Caliban Online #20 and #21
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fhmm6OHA4WE/VSYItUJ6zyI/AAAAAAAAA0A/duNo7jcTxw8/s1600/Caliban%2Blogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fhmm6OHA4WE/VSYItUJ6zyI/AAAAAAAAA0A/duNo7jcTxw8/s1600/Caliban%2Blogo.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Caliban Online logo from lisabmusic blog" /></a>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I </span></b>am thrilled to have poems included in the 20th and 21st issues of <a href="http://www.calibanonline.com/" target="_blank">Caliban Online</a>, especially since editor Larry Smith has believed in my work since publishing it in the original print version of <i>Caliban </i>(see an earlier <a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2011/02/poems-in-caliban-online-2.html" target="_blank">post</a> about how groundbreaking Caliban was even then, and <a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2015/04/poem-genesis-by-lisa-b-lisa-bernstein.html" target="_blank">this one</a> too). </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Download free PDFs of all issues of the online <i>Caliban </i>at the link abov<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>e</span>.</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">J</span></b>anet Kauffman, Nathaniel Tarn, Ray Gonzalez, Elizabeth Robinson, Timothy Liu, Brian Swann, and my old acquaintance from the 80s San Francisco poetry scene Ed Mycue are just some of the writers in <i>Caliban Online #20</i>, while <i>#21</i> boasts such writers as Gerald Vizenor, George Kalamaras, Karen Garthe, and Anna Halberstadt. </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>This online mag includes the most striking work from a range of visual artists that I've seen in any magazine anywhere not totally dedicated to visual art. Worth looking at!</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Here's one of the three poems of mine in <i>Caliban Online #20</i>, from a series identified there as "Persephone Post-War" but whose name I just changed to "Kore: After the Battle." (Thanks to poets D.A. Powell and Brent Sunderland for helping me figure out that change, which is nearly a restoration to the sequence's original name of years past.) </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<b><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></b>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A5am1a_KI0c/VrrP5kvy5eI/AAAAAAAABLY/5C0uxYqtOgA/s1600/plums.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A5am1a_KI0c/VrrP5kvy5eI/AAAAAAAABLY/5C0uxYqtOgA/s320/plums.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="plums from lisabmusic blog" height="217" width="320" /></a>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span>lum Juice</b><o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>The
fleshy plums<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>firm
and black-purple<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>falling,
shriveling,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>in
days<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>rotting
on the ground.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>The
relief<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>of
just looking.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Just
stepping past them,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>bits
of plum skin<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>sticking
to my slippers.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>The
space in my throat<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>where
a bite of sweet plum<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>could
slide past.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>From
that hollow,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>my
voice <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>echoing
on gray<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>wood,
apples<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>mottled,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>a
woman’s<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>sweet
singing in the lanes<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>of
trees.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>A
faint<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>gleam
is hidden<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>in
the crack of a mossy<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>rockface.
I reach in<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>my
thumb <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>—it
stings. Pull it out <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>dripping
blood. <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>I
suck it, <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>weeping.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>So,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>I can
still feel pain<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>even
gone from the world<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>which
sliced into me <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>when
I saw through it.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Here
a simple line<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>of
blood from my own flesh. <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Sucking <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>my
juice. <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>See
the water pooling<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>in a
hollow of<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>grassy
dirt, sap<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>in
circles in<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>the
bark. And transparent beads<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>of
liquid welling from the sliced<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>pumice-white
fruit<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>which
he places for me<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>on
the tops of tree-stumps<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>at
points along my<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>unplanned
path.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>He
must see<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>where
I walk and<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>when
I want,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>the
sharpness of light<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>and
liquid blurring<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>into
hunger.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>After
each bite<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>a
space of air.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>I am
inside<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>and
outside<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>the
orchard, a lady<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>in a
gray dress,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>myself<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>treading
the leaves.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>A
matted scent<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>like
singing warms my throat,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>and
then<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>silence,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>warm
as the orchard air,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>where
I can breathe.</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><i>copyright 2015 Lisa Bernstein</i></span>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290414
2015-12-13T23:10:00-08:00
2023-10-19T19:27:07-07:00
Who’s setting the tone of your holiday season?
<div style="border-image: none;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>o,</b> <b>who’s setting the tone of your holiday season?</b> <b>And how’s that working out for you? </b></span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div>
<div style="border-image: none;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SJ3u4XBnFNc/Vm6NNWhxwGI/AAAAAAAABIU/2DYzQ-qKlGQ/s1600/christmas_question-e1323293834972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SJ3u4XBnFNc/Vm6NNWhxwGI/AAAAAAAABIU/2DYzQ-qKlGQ/s200/christmas_question-e1323293834972.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="196" /></a><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>It’s a cliché that we in the developed world are bombarded with messages saying that our winter celebrations should involve consumption and commodities. The other part of the cliché is that you should fight these messages by somehow returning to the true, original, spiritual meaning of your preferred traditional winter holidays. Two competing shoulds. <br><br>I have a simple, technical suggestion that’s a little bit different. Reset the tone, the vibration, for yourself, of your own holiday season. More on how to do that below; you can skip to the end right now to read about it. Or continue on for more of my own holiday story. <br><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span></b>s children, we usually default to the tone, and all the accompanying customs and emotions, that our family sets for the holidays. The result for me has been mixed. As a child in suburban Long Island, New York, I lived mainly among other secular Jews. Though my family was grounded in what I call the left-wing branch of Judaism – focused on progressive social action but not religious observance – we did what most of our neighbors and friends of various political leanings did for the holidays. We decorated a tree and exchanged gifts on Christmas, pretty much in the spirit that to do so was to be American; we also lit candles in a menorah and gave Hanukkah presents.<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> It felt normal and com<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>fortable. </span></span></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br><span id="goog_1091069834"></span><span id="goog_1091069835"></span>We moved to Cupertino, Calif. when I was 10 years old, and I suddenly felt like an outsider. </span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5wUPAQDDGNI/Vm5onrqduXI/AAAAAAAABH0/V2HjwXe-sSw/s1600/dreidels.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5wUPAQDDGNI/Vm5onrqduXI/AAAAAAAABH0/V2HjwXe-sSw/s200/dreidels.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="200" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>
</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>The only Jews I was aware of lived across the street, but they didn’t have that comfortable New York-y feeling that was connected to modern intellectual culture as well as to the “old country” as personified by my Russian-born paternal grandparents (who had helped overthrow the Czar in Russian and were still Communists, and who still lived in the Bronx). No longer did my immediate pals and neighbors follow the traditions we did. <br>
<br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>And I couldn’t really call them traditions anymore. My parents, in their interests and actions, increasingly matched the overall tone of cultural, social, and political change of the late 60s and 70s (peace marches, <span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>relocating <span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>to a self-reliant life in </span></span>the redwood<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> forest</span>, and other experimentation, usually involving people much younger than themselves, even while my father still worked in Silicon Valley and my mother carried on to some extent the traditional life of a suburban mother). Amid all the hubbub, not to mention my father’s career switches and the economic challenges of the time, they never reestablished a consistent approach to celebrating the winter holidays. There wasn’t much of a tone for me to match.<br><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b>n recent decades, one person in my immediate family made a strong stand for a December celebration: my only brother (and only sibling), not quite two years younger than me. He and his wife, an observant Catholic, started giving a big party every Christmas Eve. He swathed his house in Christmas lights, more of them each year, and put out a lavish spread. At first, though his approach felt startlingly foreign to me, I enjoyed these parties. They were fun, even though filled with a sea of his wife’s relatives whom I didn’t yet know well. </span></span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> </span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0YHQbnjRTk8/Vm5aInbG35I/AAAAAAAABGE/ygAXdbRhtSs/s1600/christmas-eve-candles-glasses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0YHQbnjRTk8/Vm5aInbG35I/AAAAAAAABGE/ygAXdbRhtSs/s320/christmas-eve-candles-glasses.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="213" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a>
</div>
<br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>But the pleasure of the parties was increasingly marred by what went on during the rest of the year. My brother, whom I loved dearly and was once quite close with, was extremely busy with a high-tech job and four kids, and his wife disliked my parents. Though he lived about a 10-minute drive away from my folks, and about an hour-and-a-half drive away from me, he and his wife chose to spend little, if any, time with us. The time I did gain with them was hard to schedule with him. <br><br>The only reason for all this that I heard from him was that he was too busy and wanted to focus on his new immediate family, and that our parents’ requests felt like big demands on him, while what he needed was help. Yet it was difficult to reach either him or his wife to schedule such help. Also, my brother and his wife wanted my parents to take care of their grandchildren for long stretches of time, but arthritis made it hard for my folks to do this for more than three hours or so. My brother and his wife couldn’t comprehend this. Finally, my parents, whom I remained very close with and saw often, didn’t understand why their son and his wife didn’t want to hang out with them as my parents had so loyally hung out with my grandparents, as often as every two weeks, kids in tow for a happy gathering. <br><br>I felt hurt and perplexed by the situation, and frustrated by my unsuccessful pleas to my brother about the value to everyone of us spending time together. So, every year at his Christmas Eve party, I felt more uncomfortable about the disparity between the cheer around me and the emotional pain and distance during the rest of the year. But I attended<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>, </span>manag<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>ing</span> to enjoy <span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>t<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>he festivities and the company,</span></span> in some ways at least.</span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iOz253j8p2A/Vm5dkqsfzII/AAAAAAAABGQ/mWcHMt9Un_U/s1600/conflict%2Bfigures.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iOz253j8p2A/Vm5dkqsfzII/AAAAAAAABGQ/mWcHMt9Un_U/s320/conflict%2Bfigures.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="160" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b>hen a second complication occurred: I began living with a man whose widowed father (also Catholic), celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve. That was where we had to be. My brother wouldn’t hear of it. He wouldn’t see us any other day of the holiday season, or for that matter, of the year. It was his party or nothing. <br><br>So my Hanukkah/solstice/Christmas season became a welter of impossible desires, frustrated expectations, and confused sadness.</span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fxh4e_LhVbk/Vm5fh2zt4DI/AAAAAAAABGo/BuVYZMb_gtw/s1600/betrayal-clipart-broken-heart-clip-art1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fxh4e_LhVbk/Vm5fh2zt4DI/AAAAAAAABGo/BuVYZMb_gtw/s200/betrayal-clipart-broken-heart-clip-art1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="147" width="200" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>
<br><br><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>G</b></span>radually, it dawned on me that I, just me, could have – did have – my own experience of the darkest time of the year, in which humans historically set out light and gather together for warmth and company. I didn’t have to simply react to what others wanted. I didn’t have to only try to be a peacemaker, or, when that didn’t work, to feel an underlying drumbeat of frustration and anger and disappointment throughout the holiday time. That drumbeat was me being busy resisting other people’s decisions and tone for the season. <br><br><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span id="goog_1091069650"></span><span id="goog_1091069651"></span><span id="goog_1091069652"></span><span id="goog_1091069653"></span>F</b></span>or here’s a handy truth you may have heard: what you resist is what you get. If a good deal of your energy is tied up with something, that’s what you experience. So why tie up your energy with what you’re fighting? </span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5qqP5PjFMtk/Vm5eSV9eB6I/AAAAAAAABGg/S2ET82VEw4E/s1600/cat%2Bon%2Bhangers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5qqP5PjFMtk/Vm5eSV9eB6I/AAAAAAAABGg/S2ET82VEw4E/s320/cat%2Bon%2Bhangers.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="240" width="320" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>
<br>I still try to spend time with those I love around the holiday season. I still try to broker agreements where there are none. I help create and attend others’ celebrations. And I still feel some of those uncomfortable, even heartbroken, feelings. But amid all this, I also make sure to set the tone for my own holiday season – a largely happy tone. </span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>How? Well, as a poet, a singer, a psychic, or, for that matter, someone who cleans my own house, I believe in using good technique. It’s not an intellectual approach. You don’t have to be perfect at it. You don’t have to be particularly qualified either.<br><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b>he technique I recommend is to consciously set the tone or vibration of your own experience of the holidays by imagining a color for it. Sit down in a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted for 5 or 10 minutes. Ignore the phone, the computer, and other devices. Give yourself this time.</span>
</div>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span><br>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Put your two feet on the floor. Close your eyes. Imagine a connection between the base of your spine and the center of the earth. Don’t make this too difficult. Just be like a child and imagine it – some connection that happens instantly, descending from the bottom of your spine and hooking into the middle core of the earth: a tree trunk, a rope, a stone column, a giant stream of water, something about as wide as your body. Once you’ve done this, your body is grounded, feels safer, and has some conduit through which to release feelings, thoughts, and energies you want to let go of.</span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L1BBDNWgOuM/Vm5i7CRxgwI/AAAAAAAABHI/suReBCtWy3o/s1600/tree-with-colorful-circles-fruit-16275-medium.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L1BBDNWgOuM/Vm5i7CRxgwI/AAAAAAAABHI/suReBCtWy3o/s200/tree-with-colorful-circles-fruit-16275-medium.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="141" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br>Now, bring your awareness back up to behind your eyes. Postulate that you will see a rose in front of you with a color that embodies the tone you want for yourself holiday season. Don’t make it hard. Just see a rose. What color is it? Red? Gold? Blue? Green? This should feel good to you. If you don’t like the color, let the color change. Let the rose take on the color that represents the vibration you want to feel throughout the holidays. What’s the color? Let it fill the rose. <br><br>Look at it. Enjoy it. Does it conjure up a particular feeling in your body? What does it remind you of ? What song? What sound? What food? What place? Savor this rose you just made. <br><br>Reach out and grab the imagined rose you just created. Pull it up against your chest. Experience what it’s like to have this feeling. It’s all yours. Right in that moment, practice having this feeling. This tone. This vibration.</span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br>Then, when ready, let go of the rose and let it travel out into the universe to manifest. </span>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KALq5YW_njQ/Vm5WKPXoaAI/AAAAAAAABFc/5Pl8jb5A-ok/s1600/red%2Brose%2Bwith%2Bstem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KALq5YW_njQ/Vm5WKPXoaAI/AAAAAAAABFc/5Pl8jb5A-ok/s320/red%2Brose%2Bwith%2Bstem.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="212" width="320" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>
</span>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>
</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span><br>
<br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span></b>nergy vibrations can be communicated and quantified in various ways. In the slowest way, they become things. In the fastest way, they are subatomic particles we don’t yet know how to scientifically track or measure. One way to notice and set vibration is to use a mental picture incorporating color. I like to work with this mode because, for me as a human – as the old adage goes – seeing is believing. You don’t have to be officially clairvoyant to work with color as a way to reset a goal, an experience, a plan. (And you don’t have to be a musician to target and re-find a vibe via music.)</span><br>
<br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D0njwmQGMGw/Vm5gejWp67I/AAAAAAAABG0/bjmDJYbCrYc/s1600/blue%2Bgraphic%2Bvibration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D0njwmQGMGw/Vm5gejWp67I/AAAAAAAABG0/bjmDJYbCrYc/s320/blue%2Bgraphic%2Bvibration.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="195" width="320" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br>So with this simple technique, you can reset the tone of your holiday season – or for anything in your life – by targeting a color (that is, an energy vibration) and owning it for yourself, using the neutral, lovely, even healing image of a rose, then letting it go out to do its work. Then you don’t have to work at it all the time – you can let this energy analogue you created, the rose, do the job of keeping the tone you want for your holidays. You did it – it’s done. But you can call back the rose to check it, remind yourself of it, or even recreate it entirely if you can’t find it anymore or it looks a bit worse for wear.</span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CCaNxm-96kc/Vm5l-BCICnI/AAAAAAAABHY/Ev4Vdkzqob0/s1600/rose%2Bwith%2Bpetals%2Bstem%2Bgreen%2Bbg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CCaNxm-96kc/Vm5l-BCICnI/AAAAAAAABHY/Ev4Vdkzqob0/s200/rose%2Bwith%2Bpetals%2Bstem%2Bgreen%2Bbg.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="145" /></a></span>
</div>
<br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span></b>amily conflict, external or internal expectations of what you should be able to buy for yourself or others, or just the demands of survival in the dark winter – all this can be painful and difficult. Even those of you who have harmonious family relations may feel the claims of the season to be exhausting. Life feels more complicated over the holidays. Time really is shorter. <br><br><span id="goog_1091069754"></span><span id="goog_1091069755"></span>All the more reason to try this simple tactic for changing the energy. Be the one calling your own tune for the holidays. No one else even has to know about it. </span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'></span><br>
<div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>
</span>
<br>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>
</span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>When you do this, you’re no longer competing with the demands around you. You might meet the demands, or you might not meet them, but you’re still the one setting the tone for how you feel. And others get to set the tone for how they feel too. Which doesn’t have to be your responsibility or your problem. <br><br>It works for me.</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></b>ishing you a joyful, easy, satisfying holiday season – along with a little bit more awareness of your own (changing) energy tone, and the tones of those around you! I can see the colors lighting up (or not), and hear the bells and the melodies sounding even now…</span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wVTOxq9bi2c/Vm5Wlv7oFhI/AAAAAAAABFk/lZ1DXz0yS2s/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wVTOxq9bi2c/Vm5Wlv7oFhI/AAAAAAAABFk/lZ1DXz0yS2s/s1600/images.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" style="cursor: move;" /></a></span>
</div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>
</span>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 150%;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I2p8YwrcspY/Vm5YuqQVJBI/AAAAAAAABF0/H1_4mo2TYwk/s1600/Happy%2BHolidays%2Bscript.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I2p8YwrcspY/Vm5YuqQVJBI/AAAAAAAABF0/H1_4mo2TYwk/s200/Happy%2BHolidays%2Bscript.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="123" width="200" /></a>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290415
2015-12-13T16:57:00-08:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
Last night to light Hanukkah candles...
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #212121; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">onight's the last night of the year to light Hanukkah candles! </span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #212121; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #212121; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'><a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-slide-show-style-video-of-my-cover.html" target="_blank">http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-slide-show-style-video-of-my-cover.html</a></span></span></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AKpJH5SAomU/Vm4TqsPcMKI/AAAAAAAABEk/RJN8mckX19k/s1600/cover%2Bart%2Bfor%2BMiracle%2Bsung%2Bby%2BLisa%2BB%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bwritten%2Bby%2BMatisyahu%2B1000%2Bsquare.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AKpJH5SAomU/Vm4TqsPcMKI/AAAAAAAABEk/RJN8mckX19k/s320/cover%2Bart%2Bfor%2BMiracle%2Bsung%2Bby%2BLisa%2BB%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bwritten%2Bby%2BMatisyahu%2B1000%2Bsquare.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt=""Miracle" by Matisyahu sung by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)" height="320" width="320" /></a>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #212121; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #212121; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'>Enjoy my version, accompanied by the brilliant late guitarist Andre Bush, of Matisyahu's inspiring song "Miracle." (And I made this video for it myself.) </span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #212121; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #212121; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'>May you find more light...</span></span></span><br>
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #212121; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='color: #212121; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fefefe; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style='color: #212121; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span></span>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290416
2015-09-23T14:47:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
Happy Birthday, John Coltrane ("Trane's Ride" by Lisa B [Lisa Bernstein])
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b>hanks to John Coltrane on his birthday. May his music inspire us always!</span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: large;">"</span><b style="font-size: xx-large;">T</b>rane's Ride" is a poem I composed in the imagined voice of the great saxophone player and composer John Coltrane. (At the start of the recording I say, "I heard Trane say...." Later in the poem I refer in Trane's imagined voice to "Him," that is, God.) </span><br>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>I listened to John Coltrane's music in utero, as my father was a big fan and then a friend of the humble master. I kept listening ever since. The power, depth, and beauty of his music, the intensity of his unique voice in continual struggle, yearning, and discovery, profoundly affected me as a person and an artist.</span><br>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I</b> </span>wrote this poem when I was teaching undergraduate poetry writing at San Francisco State University during my two-year term as Associate Director of The Poetry Center there. That half-time position was itself split into two: quarter-time as Associate Director (doing grant-writing, publicity, and administrative work) and quarter-time </span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>as a lecturer in creative writing</span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> helping folks learn to write poetry. I loved it.</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>In every class, we did writing exercises together. I usually did the exercise along with the students. One assignment was to write in the voice of another person. I chose Coltrane. Unlike my usual writing approach, as I was composing the poem I heard the silent bar lines of a song passing underneath the words that streamed from my pen. Later, of course, I realized that song was "Naima." </span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> </span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b>n 1993, I received the rare permission of Alice Coltrane, then owner of Jowcol Publishing, the copyright owner of "Naima," to record the poem with "Naima" as an instrumental background. It first appeared on my 1994 EP "Be the Word," next on my 1999 CD "Free Me for the Joy," and finally on my 2009 CD of new and remixed/remastered tracks, "The Poetry of Groove." </span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>This track is one of the few recorded Coltrane compositions with a legally permitted verbal element. </span>
</div>
<div>
<br>
</div>
<div>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nw7pwXhFbEE" width="560"></iframe>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br><b>Credits</b></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><b><br></b>The poem "Trane's Ride" copyright </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>© </span></span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>1993 by Lisa Bernstein. </span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>The composition "Naima" copyright</span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>© </span></span><span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'>1959 by John Coltrane (Jowcol Music, BMI). </span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br>Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) - lead spoken vocal<br>Sandy Griffith and Alice Peacock - background vocals<br>James Richard - drum and bass programming<br>Rock Hendricks - tenor sax<br>Bob Mocarsky - keyboard<br>Dave Yamasaki - guitar<br>Jim (James) Gardiner - engineering, production, all other music, and mastering<br>Vince Wojno - mixing<br>Pajama Studios, Oakland, Calif. - recording studio <br><br>Please support the costs of making indie music (rather than ripping this or generating a penny per play or less from streaming services): <br><br>-- download from iTunes at: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tranes-ride-naima-remastered/id317598375?i=317598428&uo=4" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tra...</a>.<br><br>or <br><br>-- download or buy a CD from CDBaby at: <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lisab4" target="_blank">http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lisab4</a>. <br><br>or <br><br>-- download an MP3 from Amazon at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tranes-Ride-Naima-Remastered/dp/B002B4K5JE/ref=sr_1_1?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1418349664&sr=1-1&keywords=trane%27s+ride+lisa+b+poetry+of+groove" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Tranes-Ride-Nai...</a>. <br><br>but please don't buy a CD there as no proceeds go to the artists.</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style='font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;'><br></span>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290417
2015-09-16T15:02:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
What Diabetes Taught Me As A Creative Person
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>M</b></span>ore than 30 years ago, I was diagnosed with type 1
diabetes (it used to be called juvenile diabetes; I wasn't a juvenile when I
got it, though). It's been a challenge and a teacher.</span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qjv2APKqc54/VfnjphFLUgI/AAAAAAAAA7g/u0iwlt6ceY0/s1600/writing%2BJournal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Qjv2APKqc54/VfnjphFLUgI/AAAAAAAAA7g/u0iwlt6ceY0/s320/writing%2BJournal.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="pink writing journal from lisabmusic" height="320" width="203" /></a></span>
</div>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">Here's some of what I've learned from diabetes that is
crucially helpful in my work (and play) as a poet, singer, and creative person:</span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. It's never perfect.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. What works one day doesn't work another.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. Conversely, what doesn't work one day does work
another. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So keep a record of your previous drafts/approaches, stand back and
assess context, and watch the trend.</span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. Your body is not you; it's your instrument, lens, and
primary companion. So take care of it.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5. Allow variation. To quote my vocal coach Jane Sharp,
that's where the beauty is.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">6. There's always more room for pleasure.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">7. There's always a place for discipline. If not daily,
almost daily. By that I just mean: "do your practice," "follow
your plan." But see 5. and 6.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8. Use the technology that feels easy to adopt and
manage.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9. Write stuff down. You won't always remember it.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10. Meditate.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">11. Mortality is your friend. It makes the moment
sweeter.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12. Sing. This goes for everyone. Admit it, you want to.
Follow the lead of the angels, the animals, the birds, the insects, and the
babies. It's the grown-up human way too. And it heals.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<i style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.5455px;">copyright © 2015 Lisa Bernstein</i>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290418
2015-08-06T00:05:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
Two Fall Workshops on Mind-Body-Spirit Tools for Singers/Performers!
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">co-taught by </span></strong></span></span></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CXgTobiVK_M/U8SuOWFGiXI/AAAAAAAAAvE/L2Yq2ojIRqQ/w243-h314-no/Daria%2Bsmile%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CXgTobiVK_M/U8SuOWFGiXI/AAAAAAAAAvE/L2Yq2ojIRqQ/w243-h314-no/Daria%2Bsmile%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Daria" height="200" width="155" /></a><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oylP6IFx9xE/U8SqoRzpiTI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/MHXRJvU0zyM/s1600/Lisa+1+singing+workshop+-+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oylP6IFx9xE/U8SqoRzpiTI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/MHXRJvU0zyM/s1600/Lisa+1+singing+workshop+-+cropped.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Lisa B" height="200" width="154" /></a>
</div>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><br></strong></span></span></span>
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oylP6IFx9xE/U8SqoRzpiTI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/MHXRJvU0zyM/s1600/Lisa+1+singing+workshop+-+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><br></strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><br></strong></span></span></span>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="http://www.dariajazz.com/" target="_blank">Daria</a> </span></span></strong><strong style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></strong></span><br>
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">& </span></strong></span></strong>
</div>
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></strong><strong style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></strong>
<br>
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"> <a href="http://lisabmusic.com/about.html" target="_blank">Lisa B</a> </span></strong></span><strong style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"> </span></strong></span><strong style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="color: #351c75;"> </span></span></strong></strong>
</div>
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</strong>
</div>
<br>
<br>
<span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">We have two workshops coming up</span></strong></span><span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><br></span></strong></span><br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i>Confidence, Communication, and Creativity</i></span></span></strong><br>
<strong style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i>for Singers and Other Performers</i></span></span></strong>
</div>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sun. 9/13/15 - Piedmont Piano, Oakland </span></span></span></strong>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000;"></span><br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000;">
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"></span></span>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><b>&</b></span></span><br>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><b><br></b></span></span>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">
</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"></span></span>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><i style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #990000;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">The Complete Singer:</span> </strong>Spiritual, Technical, and Practical Tools to Help You Realize Your Musical Dreams</i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">
</span></span>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">
</span></span>
<br>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="color: purple;">Sun. 10/11/15 - Roots Music Marin, San Rafael</span></span></strong>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><br></span></strong></span>
<br>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Take either or both</span></strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">No prerequisites</span></strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">All levels welcome!</span></strong></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #741b47;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">More info below</span></strong></span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Contact lisabmusic at hotmail dot com to register</span></strong></span></span><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<hr style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
<br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
<br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;"><i style="background-color: #ffe599;">Mind-Body-Spirit Tools for Confidence, Communication, and Creativity</i></span></strong></span></strong></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;"><i style="background-color: #ffe599;">for Singers and Other Performers</i></span></strong></span></strong></span><br>
<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;"><b><i><br></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: cyan;"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J0x8u3yju9U/U8SsBgQd_tI/AAAAAAAAAuo/K5K0hvV9ysM/w70-h80-no/4butterflies%2Banimated.gif" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="" height="80" width="70" /></span></strong></span></strong></span><br>
<strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: purple;">Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m.</span></span></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><br></span></strong><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">$90 (limited to 10 participants), pre-registration required</span></strong></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">$85 if you register by Aug. 23</span></strong></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Registration closes Sept. 10</span></strong></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><br></span></strong></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Piedmont Piano Company: </span></strong></span><strong style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">1728 San Pablo Ave, Oakland, Calif. 94612</strong></span><br>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><br><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">COMMUNICATION AND CONFIDENCE:</span></strong><br><strong style="color: #990000;">* Feel more comfortable communicating to a group or audience</strong><br><strong style="color: #990000;">* Learn how to protect your personal space while communicating with others</strong><br><strong style="color: #990000;">* Learn fundamental tools to feel more relaxed, confident, and present</strong><br><strong style="color: #990000;">* Apply these techniques to performance in the workshop and get immediate supportive feedback</strong><br><br><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">CREATIVITY:</span></strong><br><strong style="color: #990000;">* Reconnect with your inner creative self</strong><br><strong style="color: #990000;">* Release invalidation and judgment from your creative and performance abilities</strong><br><strong style="color: #990000;">* Practice vocal creativity in the moment through improvisation</strong><br><strong style="color: #990000;">* Tap into your verbal creativity with fun writing exercises</strong><br><br><strong style="color: #990000;">Bring a song or performance piece to work on.</strong></span></span><br>
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"></span><br>
<hr style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><i><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #4c1130;"><strong>The Complete Singer: </strong>Spiritual, Technical, and Practical Tools to Help You Realize Your Musical Dreams</span></i></span><br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: cyan; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></span></a>
</div>
<span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: purple;"><strong style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Sunday, Oct. 11, 1 - 4 p.m.</strong><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><br></strong><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>$75 (limited to 10 participants), pre-registration required</strong></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>$70 if you register by Sept. 20</strong></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>Registration closes Oct. 8</strong></span></span><br>
<div>
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva;"><b><br></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>Roots Music Marin: </strong></span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">1455-C East Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, Calif. 94901</strong></span><br>
<br>
<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></strong></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<br>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<strong><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">VOCALIZING:</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Feel more relaxed and connected to your breath support </span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Feel more "in your body," confident, and clear</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Reduce stage fright, resistance, confusion, insecurity</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Expand your vocal exercises and terminology</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Draw on your different chakras or major energy centers when singing</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Learn helpful tips on your key vocal issues</span><br><br><span style="color: #351c75;">YOUR SINGER'S LIFE:</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Reconnect with your own joy of singing</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Identify goals you want to keep, revise, or add</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Stop competing with yourself and others</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Explore how diet, sleep, allergens, medications, and stress affect your voice</span><br><span style="color: #990000;">- Set your own tone/agenda for your singing activities </span></strong></span></strong>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></strong></span></span>
<br>
<div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">Includes guided visualization, meditation, instruction, sharing, and singing</span></strong></span></strong>
</div>
<strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">and personalized feedback in the workshop</span></strong></span></strong><br>
<strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #990000;"><br></span></strong></span></strong>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;">__________________________________________________________________</span></span><br>
<br style="background-color: #714275; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>Past participants had this to say:</strong></span><br>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong><br></strong></span>
<br>
<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1208990162187634" style="background-color: #714275; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
<br>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><em><strong>"The information presented helped me to connect with my spirit and improved my confidence. I would recommend this workshop to all singers." - M.G.</strong></em></span><br>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><em><strong><br></strong></em></span>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><em><strong>"The workshop covered a wide range of topics and techniques that I can apply to my singing. The information was understandable from every level, beginning to advanced, and adaptable." - J.B.</strong></em></span><br>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><em><strong><br></strong></em></span>
<br>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><em><strong>"I really enjoyed the combination of energy and vocal work." - C.R.</strong></em></span><br>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><em><strong><br></strong></em></span>
<br>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><em><strong>"What a wonderful workshop today! What I appreciated most was that it was not your typical workshop<em><strong> — </strong></em>exercises, sing a song. It truly was a complete overview<em><strong><em><strong> — </strong></em></strong></em>mind, body, and spirit." - O.J.</strong></em></span><br>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><em><strong><br></strong></em></span>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><em><strong><br></strong></em></span>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em>"The workshop was amazing. I really enjoyed the guided meditations and learning about the chakras. Still thinking about it all!" - J.T.</em></strong></span><br>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em><br></em></strong></span>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: x-small;"><strong><em><br></em></strong></span>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em>"Great start to discovering the artist in myself." - T.H.</em></strong></span><br>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em><br></em></strong></span>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em><br></em></strong></span>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em>"Thanks for reconnecting me to my spirit self. I forgot the little girl who just loves to sing."</em></strong></span><br>
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em><br></em></strong></span>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em><br></em></strong></span>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><em>"I thoroughly enjoyed it and greatly appreciate the marrying of technique and spiritual/emotional awareness." - L.W.</em></strong></span>
</div>
<br style="background-color: #714275; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
<img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nBWYJC5WvQ0/U8Sr6Tnjc4I/AAAAAAAAAuc/ZBnUhkoyx64/s1600/butterfly+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="80" style="background-color: #714275; color: white; display: block; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; vertical-align: middle;" width="70" /><br>
<div>
<br>
</div>
<div>
<strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: small;"><strong><br></strong></span></strong>
</div>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290419
2015-06-25T23:21:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
Lisa B at The Sound Room, Uptown Oakland, Sat. 6/27/15: 8 pm - 10 pm
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OoIG0dFMHEg/VYzqVA6ougI/AAAAAAAAA4E/BJSDIqxiFOs/s1600/Lisa%2BB%2Baka%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bfx%2Bsmiling%2Bon%2Ba%2Bgig_copyright%2BLenny%2BBernstein.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OoIG0dFMHEg/VYzqVA6ougI/AAAAAAAAA4E/BJSDIqxiFOs/s320/Lisa%2BB%2Baka%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bfx%2Bsmiling%2Bon%2Ba%2Bgig_copyright%2BLenny%2BBernstein.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="215" /></a>
</div>
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rvcNhDIglFE/VYzqaEaPdyI/AAAAAAAAA4M/yXsD1HaOcpA/s1600/Lisa%2BB%2Baka%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bon%2Ba%2Bgig_copyright%2BLenny%2BBernstein.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rvcNhDIglFE/VYzqaEaPdyI/AAAAAAAAA4M/yXsD1HaOcpA/s320/Lisa%2BB%2Baka%2BLisa%2BBernstein%2Bon%2Ba%2Bgig_copyright%2BLenny%2BBernstein.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="212" /></a><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b>t's been 2-1/2 years since I've performed in a Bay Area club, so I'm thrilled to be singing, and performing poetic spoken word, again this Saturday night at the wonderful Sound Room in the burgeoning Uptown Oakland, Calif., neighborhood. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the interim, I've been busy with lots of creative work: new studio recordings, new poetry, and a nonfiction book in progress, not to mention nurturing my clairvoyant reading practice (see <a href="http://www.lisabintuitive.com/" target="_blank">www.lisabintuitive.com</a>) and undergoing two surgeries (the latest leaving me way hipper, with a new right hip). </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But it's time, already! </span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The trio I'll have playing with me is fantastic, all titans in their own rights, not to mention creative, likeable fellows to work with.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here are the details. Come on down!</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></span>
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kf5_4GTKJv0/VYzrksVtzTI/AAAAAAAAA4U/fAS_ZqZQxqc/s1600/sound%2Broom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kf5_4GTKJv0/VYzrksVtzTI/AAAAAAAAA4U/fAS_ZqZQxqc/s200/sound%2Broom.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: large;"><b>Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) </b></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: large;"><b>at The Sound Room </b></span></span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">in Uptown Oakland</span></b></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>with </b></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>Frank Martin, piano</b></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>Peter Barshay, bass</b></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>Jeff Marrs, drums</b></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> </span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>Saturday, June 27</b></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>8 p.m. - 10 p.m.</b></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>$15</b></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>2147 Broadway, Oakland CA</b></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="mailto:soundroomoakland@gmail.com" target="_blank">soundroomoakland@gmail.com</a></b></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>(510) 496-4180</b></span><br style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.soundroom.org/" target="_blank">http://www.soundroom.org</a></b></span></span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b><br></b></span></span></span><br>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;"><b>Get: <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1640348" target="_blank" title="Brown Paper Tickets to Lisa's Show at The Sound Room in cool Uptown Oakland!">tickets here</a></b></span></span></span><br>
<br>
<ul>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">All ages</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">Delicious small plates</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">Nonprofit vibe meets fun-night-out</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; font-size: medium;">Drinks alcoholic and non-</span></li>
</ul>
<br>
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">And swinging, creative originals and standards, often with poetic spoken word woven through them...</span></span><br>
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br></span></span>
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">What's not to like? </span></span><br>
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">ee you there!</span></span></span>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290420
2015-04-24T19:55:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
Lisa B's (Lisa Bernstein's) version of "What's New, Pussycat?" on YouTube
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>M</b></span>y version of the ever-delightful Bacharach/David song "What's New, Pussycat?" came out in 2006 on the album of the same name, subtitled "Tunes and Tales About Cool Cats." </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I recently put the tune up on You Tube with the marvelous CD cover Julie Ann Yuen created. I've neglected to post about it here, though. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What better time to think of all things pussycat than the warming days of April? (Don't you want to go out and lie in the sun, stretching your paws?)</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the All Music Guide puts it, "Bernstein uses the word cat as a metaphor — as hipster/beatnik/bebop slang — and she is really singing about human situations… from Bernstein’s own material to an intriguing arrangement of Graham Nash’s 'Our House,' 'What's New, Pussycat?' is infectious…memorable, and clever.” </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can read more press about the record here (scroll down): <a href="http://www.lisabmusic.com/press_quotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.lisabmusic.com/press_quotes.html</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></b>f you'd like to own the track (and I'd be grateful for your support and the knowledge of your reliably ongoing pleasure), you can get it here: <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lisab3" target="_blank">http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lisab3</a> (mp3s and higher-quality digital files as well as actual CDs) or here: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/whats-new-pussycat/id167824648?i=167824654&uo=6&at=&ct=" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088cc; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/whats-new-pussycat/id167824648?i=167824654&uo=6&at=&ct=</a></span><br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b2TzGPdO83U/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b2TzGPdO83U?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe>
</div>
<br>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290421
2015-04-08T22:08:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
the poem "Genesis" by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fhmm6OHA4WE/VSYItUJ6zyI/AAAAAAAAAz8/nXTnAauOyMc/s1600/Caliban%2Blogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fhmm6OHA4WE/VSYItUJ6zyI/AAAAAAAAAz8/nXTnAauOyMc/s1600/Caliban%2Blogo.png" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="88" width="400" /></a>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"G</span></b>enesis" appeared in <i>Caliban Online #4</i> (2o11). The online <i>Caliban</i> is a resurrected version of Larry Smith's imaginative hard-copy <i>Caliban</i> magazine of the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. It in many ways was a successor to <i>kayak</i>, the groundbreaking magazine edited by George Hitchcock, who was one of my professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz. <i>Caliban</i> went on to publish a range of esteemed, exploratory writers (<a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2011/02/poems-in-caliban-online-2.html" target="_blank">http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2011/02/poems-in-caliban-online-2.html</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">). Now, <i>Caliban Online </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">describes itself as" an internationally recognized literary and arts magazine featuring avant-garde writing" and other media, notably visual art. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm honored to have had a number of poems in three different issues.</span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This one belongs to a group of my poems exploring Biblical themes and characters. Mild warning: it's not quite "safe for work." </span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Genesis<o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Face
down on the green and brown bed<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I put
my hand under my pelvis<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
feel the bone plowing a little, like a plow into the earth.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I
can’t redo the Garden of Eden,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">can’t
recreate the errors, the judgment, the rows of plants and herbs,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the
animals mutely watching God’s imposter<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“the
Lord” consign man and woman to post and field.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But I
feel the original bone tip<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">meeting
the earth through my palm’s flesh.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The
bone wants to fuck in sorrow and rage<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as if
to plow up earth’s punishment like sod and copper.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And
my hand nuzzles and takes<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the
heated plowing from my body.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And
the plowing is so strong I smell the wet earth,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the
parted moist ground,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the
mist rising from where Adam’s old plow entered,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">melting
into manna and gold honey in my hand.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And
as I close my eyes to the brown and green bed<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
the sweat of my brow, I see the creamy, withered pages<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of
the false Lord’s creation<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ignite
and burn above my head.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The
beings who sang at the true creation of the world<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">stand
witness again,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">their
faces recalling the face of the God<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">who
hovered over the waters.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I
come into my hand<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
breathe out a mist<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">which
rests on my face, <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my
own face, <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like
God’s, the one I know.</span><br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>copyright 2011 Lisa Bernstein (aka Lisa B)</i></span>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290422
2015-04-06T18:45:00-07:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
poem "The Yoke" by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yrNsXt6n-o8/VSMzIBhiBhI/AAAAAAAAAzs/UM5tka-DLVg/s1600/Lilith%2B1999%2Bissue%2Bwith%2Btwo%2Bof%2Bmy%2Bpoems.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yrNsXt6n-o8/VSMzIBhiBhI/AAAAAAAAAzs/UM5tka-DLVg/s1600/Lilith%2B1999%2Bissue%2Bwith%2Btwo%2Bof%2Bmy%2Bpoems.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="227" /></a>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span></b>ost of the poems in my current unpublished poetry manuscript, "The Rhythm of Forgiveness," have been published separately, in literary magazines or other types of periodicals. I've been wanting to start posting these poems here.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this Biblical season, "The Yoke" seems a good place to start.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This poem appeared in the wonderful magazine <i>Lilith</i>, in its spring 1999 issue. <a href="http://lilith.org/current-issues/page/62/" target="_blank">http://lilith.org/current-issues/page/62/</a> The same issue featured a second poem by me, to come in a later blog post.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along with featuring a poem or two, <i>Lilith</i> covers a wide range of topics. Here's how it describes itself: "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist since 1976, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><i>Lilith</i> magazine</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> charts Jewish women's lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style." What's not to like? (I'm tempted to adopt those last five qualities as my personal writer's mission.) </span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The Yoke" also appeared in the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">July 1996 issue of the</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> monthly newspaper </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Psychic Reader, </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">which was published for many years by the Berkeley Psychic Institute, where I first trained as a clairvoyant reader</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Yoke<o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Somebody’s
yoke around my neck—<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">how
can I think about God now<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
what a kvetch he became in Genesis?<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He
walked there calling for Adam.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then
the verses fell down like a ladder on the dirt<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">smashing
all that had been planted.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Adam
stopped to be yelled at<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but
the actual Adam was off somewhere else<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">dancing
and fornicating with Eve.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About
all the pain and suffering that followed—<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">was
it worth the neat rows of vegetables,<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">each
with a picture-name?<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m
more interested in the snake in the dust<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
the shimmering pyramids.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The
goddess that came before them<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">shaking
her stiff serpent at the tree.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m
as tired of the One Dad God as he was with his trying children.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let
the cypresses be trees in my hungry city, <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">let
the dusty roads be my littered streets.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God,
this agreement to plow and to plead—<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it’s
enough already, don’t you think? <o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And
this yoke—take it.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Go on
without me<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">rearranging
yourself, green into red<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">into
blue. I feel better already.<o:p></o:p></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I
forgive you too.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br><i>copyright 1996 Lisa Bernstein (aka Lisa B)</i></span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br></b></span>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290423
2015-02-26T19:46:00-08:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
Mind-Body-Spirit Tools on Creativity, Communication, and Confidence: for Singers/Performers
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">B</span>eing a performer is so much about letting others see and hear who you really are. Which can be terrifying </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> and liberating.</span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I realized this all over again last night while on the road to an audition, with exhausted vocal cords from overpracticing and thoughts of pulling over, calling the bandleader, and feigning a flat tire. </span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Three things kept me going: the fact that I didn't want to waste having put on make-up, the fact that I didn't want to be seen as a flake by this band I wanted to join, and (maybe most important) using the tools that I and my co-teacher <span style="color: #333333;">would be teaching in our upcoming workshop for performers.</span></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the way, I made it. And the audition was a success! </span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">D</span></b>aria and I are offering our fourth workshop on mind-body-spirit tools for performers since we inaugurated them in May 2014. This time we're focusing on creativity, communication, and confidence<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">.</span></span></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Past participants of these offerings </span><span style="background-color: white;">have raved about them. A couple of comments from our most recent workshop, in February at Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco: </span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hanks for reconnecting me to my spirit self. I forgot the little girl who just loved to sing." </span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"<span style="font-size: large;">I </span>thoroughly enjoyed it and greatly appreciate the marrying of technique and spiritual/emotional awareness."</span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></i></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></i></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Want to be seen and heard as who you really are, as a creative person and performer? Treat yourself to this workshop on March 21.</span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mind-Body-Spirit
Tools <o:p></o:p></span></span></b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">for
Creativity, Communication, and Confidence</span><span style="color: #000099;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Workshop
for Singers and Other Performers <o:p></o:p></span></span></b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All Levels Welcome<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></i></b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">taught
by</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Daria
and Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)</span><span style="color: #000099;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-text-raise: -39.5pt; position: relative; top: 39.5pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype
id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t"
path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/>
</v:formulas>
<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/>
<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/>
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="image1.jpeg" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75"
style='width:110.25pt;height:180.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Lisa\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"
o:title=""/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-text-raise: -39.0pt; position: relative; top: 39.0pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="image2.jpeg" o:spid="_x0000_i1025"
type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:140.25pt;height:180.75pt;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Lisa\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg"
o:title=""/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-09TTmIEDzKE/U8SuD10z8NI/AAAAAAAAAu8/ND0vZe9u4so/s1600/Daria+smile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-09TTmIEDzKE/U8SuD10z8NI/AAAAAAAAAu8/ND0vZe9u4so/s1600/Daria+smile.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="128" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oylP6IFx9xE/U8SqoRzpiTI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/MHXRJvU0zyM/s1600/Lisa+1+singing+workshop+-+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oylP6IFx9xE/U8SqoRzpiTI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/MHXRJvU0zyM/s1600/Lisa+1+singing+workshop+-+cropped.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="154" /></a>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #990000;">Saturday,
March 21st</span></span></b><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">12:30
p.m. - 4:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Piedmont
Piano Company</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">1728
San Pablo Ave.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Oakland, CA</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 13.0pt;">$90
($85 for Registration by March 9)</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br></span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J0x8u3yju9U/U8SsBgQd_tI/AAAAAAAAAuk/J29HJ0xFImQ/s1600/4butterflies+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J0x8u3yju9U/U8SsBgQd_tI/AAAAAAAAAuk/J29HJ0xFImQ/s1600/4butterflies+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br></span></b></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style='color: #333333; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b><b style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">CREATIVITY</span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Reconnect
with your inner creative self</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; font-size: 13pt;">Release invalidation and judgment from your creative and
performance abilities</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Practice
vocal/performance creativity in the moment through improvisation</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 13pt;">Tap into your verbal creativity with fun writing exercises</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #343434; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br></span></span>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style='color: #444444; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b><b style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">COMMUNICATION AND CONFIDENCE</span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Feel
more comfortable communicating to a group or audience</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Learn
how to protect your personal space while communicating with others</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Learn
fundamental tools to feel more relaxed, confident, and present</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Apply
these techniques to performance and get supportive feedback</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nBWYJC5WvQ0/U8Sr6Tnjc4I/AAAAAAAAAuc/ZBnUhkoyx64/s1600/butterfly+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nBWYJC5WvQ0/U8Sr6Tnjc4I/AAAAAAAAAuc/ZBnUhkoyx64/s1600/butterfly+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.9333324432373px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Includes guided visualization, fun group & one-on-one exercises, practical instruction & tips, sharing, and performance</span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #343434;"><br></span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #343434;">Bring a song or performance piece to
work on</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br>
</div>
<br>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Maximum 10 participants, all must
pregister:</span><span style="color: #343434;"> Contact </span></b><b><a href="mailto:lisabmusic@hotmail.com">lisabmusic@hotmail.com</a></b></span><b><span style="color: #343434; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a>
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span>
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.8999996185303px;">
<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.46px;">Daria</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 18.46px;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.46px;">is an acclaimed vocalist, recording artist, and educator who has performed and toured internationally with her trio and Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks. She has taught at the Jazzschool, College of Marin, Blue Bear School of Music, and elsewhere. See </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px;"><a href="http://www.dariajazz.com/" style="color: #b42289; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.dariajazz.com</a></span></b>
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 18.8999996185303px;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b></b></span></span><br>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Gives you new experiences </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">and insights beyond the ordinary...</span></span></span><br>
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">songs that speak to the heart and spirit."</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- <i>Jesse "Chuy" Varela, </i></span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">Music Director, KCSM FM</i></span><br>
<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><br></i></span>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white;">
</span>
</div>
<div>
<div style="background-color: white; display: inline !important;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">"Daria's masterful and compassionate vocal coaching style, coupled with her ability to provide a safe and respectful environment, has transformed me from a shy, quiet individual to a more confident, vocally present participant in the world and in my own life. I am eternally grateful for our work together." </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">- Darla Holst</span></i>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.8999996185303px;">
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><br></span></i></b></span>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px;">is a singer, poet, and clairvoyant reader, energy healer, and coach. She has five CDs and two books to her credit. She received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Money for Women. She has taught at San Francisco State University, the Jazzschool, and Allendale Recreation Center. See <a href="http://www.lisabmusic.com/" style="color: #b42289; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.lisabmusic.com</a>.</span></b></span>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b><br></b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">“Lisa Bernstein's mix of spoken word poetry...and passionate jazzy, high-register vocalizing is …hard to resist.” <i>- All Music Guide</i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><i><br></i></span>
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><i>“</i>I know Lisa as an accomplished poet and singer. Recently I had a chance to experience her other skill as an intuitive. I would recommend her without reservation to anyone who is curious to know more about themselves.” - <i>Ben Flint, pianist and educator</i></span>
</div>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/6175542
2015-02-26T19:46:00-08:00
2020-01-27T02:26:15-08:00
Mind-Body-Spirit Tools on Creativity, Communication, and Confidence: for Singers/Performers
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">B</span>eing a performer is so much about letting others see and hear who you really are. Which can be terrifying </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"> and liberating.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I realized this all over again last night while on the road to an audition, with exhausted vocal cords from overpracticing and thoughts of pulling over, calling the bandleader, and feigning a flat tire. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Three things kept me going: the fact that I didn't want to waste having put on make-up, the fact that I didn't want to be seen as a flake by this band I wanted to join, and (maybe most important) using the tools that I and my co-teacher <span style="color: #333333;">would be teaching in our upcoming workshop for performers.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the way, I made it. And the audition was a success! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">D</span></b>aria and I are offering our fourth workshop on mind-body-spirit tools for performers since we inaugurated them in May 2014. This time we're focusing on creativity, communication, and confidence<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><br></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Past participants of these offerings </span><span style="background-color: white;">have raved about them. A couple of comments from our most recent workshop, in February at Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hanks for reconnecting me to my spirit self. I forgot the little girl who just loved to sing." </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"<span style="font-size: large;">I </span>thoroughly enjoyed it and greatly appreciate the marrying of technique and spiritual/emotional awareness."</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Want to be seen and heard as who you really are, as a creative person and performer? Treat yourself to this workshop on March 21.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mind-Body-Spirit Tools <p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">for Creativity, Communication, and Confidence</span><span style="color: #000099;"><p></p></span></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Workshop for Singers and Other Performers <p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All Levels Welcome<p></p></span></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">taught by</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><p></p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Daria and Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)</span><span style="color: #000099;"><p></p></span></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-text-raise: -39.5pt; position: relative; top: 39.5pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/></v:shapetype><v:shape id="image1.jpeg" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:110.25pt;height:180.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Lisa\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg" o:title=""/></v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-text-raise: -39.0pt; position: relative; top: 39.0pt;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="image2.jpeg" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" style='width:140.25pt;height:180.75pt;visibility:visible; mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\Lisa\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg" o:title=""/></v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><p></p></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-09TTmIEDzKE/U8SuD10z8NI/AAAAAAAAAu8/ND0vZe9u4so/s1600/Daria+smile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-09TTmIEDzKE/U8SuD10z8NI/AAAAAAAAAu8/ND0vZe9u4so/s1600/Daria+smile.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="128" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oylP6IFx9xE/U8SqoRzpiTI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/MHXRJvU0zyM/s1600/Lisa+1+singing+workshop+-+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oylP6IFx9xE/U8SqoRzpiTI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/MHXRJvU0zyM/s1600/Lisa+1+singing+workshop+-+cropped.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="154" /></a>
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #990000;">Saturday, March 21st</span></span></b><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.0pt;"><p></p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.<p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Piedmont Piano Company</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">1728 San Pablo Ave.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">, </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Oakland, CA</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 13.0pt;"><p></p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 13.0pt;">$90 ($85 for Registration by March 9)</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.0pt;"><p></p></span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J0x8u3yju9U/U8SsBgQd_tI/AAAAAAAAAuk/J29HJ0xFImQ/s1600/4butterflies+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J0x8u3yju9U/U8SsBgQd_tI/AAAAAAAAAuk/J29HJ0xFImQ/s1600/4butterflies+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br></span></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style='color: #333333; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b><b style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">CREATIVITY</span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Reconnect with your inner creative self</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; font-size: 13pt;">Release invalidation and judgment from your creative and performance abilities</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Practice vocal/performance creativity in the moment through improvisation</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 13pt;">Tap into your verbal creativity with fun writing exercises</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><br></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #343434; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style='color: #444444; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b><b style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">COMMUNICATION AND CONFIDENCE</span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Feel more comfortable communicating to a group or audience</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Learn how to protect your personal space while communicating with others</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Learn fundamental tools to feel more relaxed, confident, and present</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Apply these techniques to performance and get supportive feedback</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><p></p></span></span>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nBWYJC5WvQ0/U8Sr6Tnjc4I/AAAAAAAAAuc/ZBnUhkoyx64/s1600/butterfly+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nBWYJC5WvQ0/U8Sr6Tnjc4I/AAAAAAAAAuc/ZBnUhkoyx64/s1600/butterfly+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.9333324432373px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Includes guided visualization, fun group & one-on-one exercises, practical instruction & tips, sharing, and performance</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #343434;"><br></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #343434;">Bring a song or performance piece to work on</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333;"><p></p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br></div><br><div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Maximum 10 participants, all must pregister:</span><span style="color: #343434;"> Contact </span></b><b><a href="mailto:lisabmusic@hotmail.com">lisabmusic@hotmail.com</a></b></span><b><span style="color: #343434; font-size: 13.0pt;"><p></p></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcmkeT2khIQ/U8Su6jWBr5I/AAAAAAAAAvI/Eo45wB93FNY/s1600/butterfly+small+animated.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.8999996185303px;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.46px;">Daria</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 18.46px;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.46px;">is an acclaimed vocalist, recording artist, and educator who has performed and toured internationally with her trio and Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks. She has taught at the Jazzschool, College of Marin, Blue Bear School of Music, and elsewhere. See </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px;"><a href="http://www.dariajazz.com/" style="color: #b42289; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.dariajazz.com</a></span></b></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 18.8999996185303px;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b></b></span></span><br><div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Gives you new experiences </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">and insights beyond the ordinary...</span></span></span><br><div style="display: inline !important;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">songs that speak to the heart and spirit."</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">- <i>Jesse "Chuy" Varela, </i></span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">Music Director, KCSM FM</i></span><br><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><br></i></span>
</div>
<span style="background-color: white;"></span>
</div>
<div><div style="background-color: white; display: inline !important;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">"Daria's masterful and compassionate vocal coaching style, coupled with her ability to provide a safe and respectful environment, has transformed me from a shy, quiet individual to a more confident, vocally present participant in the world and in my own life. I am eternally grateful for our work together." </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">- Darla Holst</span></i>
</div></div>
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.8999996185303px;">
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><br></span></i></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div>
<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; text-align: center;"></div>
<div style="color: #444444; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px;">is a singer, poet, and clairvoyant reader, energy healer, and coach. She has five CDs and two books to her credit. She received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Money for Women. She has taught at San Francisco State University, the Jazzschool, and Allendale Recreation Center. See <a href="http://www.lisabmusic.com/" style="color: #b42289; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.lisabmusic.com</a>.</span></b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b><br></b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">“Lisa Bernstein's mix of spoken word poetry...and passionate jazzy, high-register vocalizing is …hard to resist.” <i>- All Music Guide</i></span></span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><i><br></i></span></div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><i>“</i>I know Lisa as an accomplished poet and singer. Recently I had a chance to experience her other skill as an intuitive. I would recommend her without reservation to anyone who is curious to know more about themselves.” - <i>Ben Flint, pianist and educator</i></span></div>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/7290424
2015-01-13T14:53:00-08:00
2023-10-19T19:27:08-07:00
Mind-Body-Spirit Tools for Singers Comes to San Francisco! 2/1/15
<div>
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PpqoY-i1OqY/VLWdVaD2iqI/AAAAAAAAAy0/-flR0JA0R14/s1600/blue%2Bbear%2Blogo%2B1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PpqoY-i1OqY/VLWdVaD2iqI/AAAAAAAAAy0/-flR0JA0R14/s1600/blue%2Bbear%2Blogo%2B1.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><br>
<div style="background-color: #fce5cd; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">The Complete Singer:</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">Spiritual, Technical, and Practical Tools </span></span><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to Help You Realize Your Musical Dreams</span>
</div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>V</b></span><b>ocalist-educator Daria and I are excited to bring our workshop on mind-body-spirit tools for singers to San Francisco after the enthusiastic response it received in Oakland and Novato, Calif., last spring and summer.</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We'll be giving it at the wonderful Blue Bear School of Music, where I began my vocal training more than two decades ago!, and where Daria has taught intermittently for many years.</b></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br></span>
</div>
<div>
<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPYkciyd42c/VLWdVU2OKrI/AAAAAAAAAyw/mzW3HwaEdvo/s1600/blue_bear_150sq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPYkciyd42c/VLWdVU2OKrI/AAAAAAAAAyw/mzW3HwaEdvo/s1600/blue_bear_150sq.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a><br>
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<strong style="color: maroon; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.7199993133545px; text-decoration: underline;">SUN. FEB. 1ST</strong>
</div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">1 p.m. - 4 p.m., </span><span style="font-size: 16.3636360168457px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">$75</span>
</div>
</div>
<blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
Blue Bear School of Music</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px; text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">Fort Mason, Bldg. D, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">San Francisco</span>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<blockquote style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px; text-align: center;">
<div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;"><span style="color: #660000;">Are you a singer, whether in the shower or on stage?</span></span> </div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.7199993133545px; text-align: center;">
<div style="line-height: 22.7199993133545px;">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; line-height: 22.7199993133545px;"><span style="color: #660000;">Start the new year right with this revitalizing workshop!</span></span>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br><b>* Reconnect with your original dream of becoming a singer</b></i></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><br></b></i></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>* Identify and fine-tune your goals and activities</b></i></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><br></b></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>* Get tools and information to increase your confidence, ease, and well-being</b></i></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><br></b></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>* Get personalized feedback on vocal technique</b></i></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b><br></b></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>* Includes guided visualization, meditation, instruction, sharing, and singing</b></i></span>
</div>
<div>
<br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Open to those at all levels. </b></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Maximum 10 participants, so reserve your place now!</b></i></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b>Please email lisabmusic at hotmail.com to reserve your place now or ask any questions!</b></i> </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">**********************************************************************************************</i></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><br></b></i></span>
</div>
<div>
<i><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>"The information presented helped me to connect with my spirit and improved my confidence. I would recommend this workshop to all singers." - M.G.</b></span></i>
</div>
<div>
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br></b></span></i>
</div>
<div>
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"The workshop covered a wide range of topics and techniques that I can apply to my singing. The information was understandable from every level, beginning to advanced, and adaptable." - J.B.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"I really enjoyed the combination of energy and vocal work." - C. R.</span></b></span></i><br>
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><b><br></b></span></span></i>
</div>
<div>
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>"What a wonderful workshop today! What I appreciated most was that it was not your typical vocal workshop — exercises, sing a song. It truly was a complete overview — mind, body and spirit." - O.J. </b></span></span></i>
</div>
<div>
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"The workshop was amazing. I really enjoyed the guided meditations and learning about the chakras. Still thinking about it all!" - J.T.</span></b></span></i>
</div>
<div>
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">"Great start to discovering the artist in myself." - T. H.</span></b></span></i>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">__________________________________________________________</span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>The workshop will help you:<br><br><i style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #660000;">Vocalizing:</span></i><br><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">- Feel more relaxed and connected to your breath support <br>- Feel more "in your body," confident, and clear<br>- Reduce stage fright, resistance, confusion, insecurity<br>- Expand your vocal exercises and terminology<br>- Draw on your different chakras or major energy centers when singing<br>- Learn helpful tips on your key vocal issues</span></span><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span><i style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">Your singer's life:</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">- Reconnect with your own joy of singing</span><br><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">- Identify goals you want to keep, revise, or add</span><br><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">- Stop competing with yourself and others</span><br><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">- Explore how diet, sleep, allergens, medications, and stress affect your voice</span><br><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">- Set your own tone/agenda for your singing activities </span></span><br>
<br>
__________________________________________________________</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.46px;"><br></span>
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZljHDaXJvW0/VLWaXDB4tWI/AAAAAAAAAyk/qJ9MwSnlpSo/s1600/Daria%2Bsmile%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZljHDaXJvW0/VLWaXDB4tWI/AAAAAAAAAyk/qJ9MwSnlpSo/s1600/Daria%2Bsmile%2B-%2BCopy.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="154" /></a>
</div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18.46px;">Daria </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.46px;">is an acclaimed vocalist, recording artist, and educator who has performed and toured internationally with her trio and Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks. She has taught at the Jazzschool, College of Marin, Blue Bear School of Music, and elsewhere. See </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.dariajazz.com/" target="_blank">www.dariajazz.com</a></span></span>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b></b></span></span><br>
<div>
<span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">"Gives you new experiences </span></b></span></span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">and insights beyond the ordinary...</b></b><br>
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><b style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">songs that speak to the heart and spirit."</b></b></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>- </b><i>Jesse "Chuy" Varela, </i></span></span><i style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">Music Director, KCSM FM</i><br>
<i style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><br></i>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="display: inline !important;">
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">"Daria's masterful and compassionate vocal coaching style, coupled with her ability to provide a safe and respectful environment, has transformed me from a shy, quiet individual to a more confident, vocally present participant in the world and in my own life. I am eternally grateful for our work together." </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4599990844727px;">- Darla Holst</span></i></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><br></span></i></b></span>
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bst_VXta54g/VLWT9argWbI/AAAAAAAAAyU/5lYaxhQhYgo/s1600/Lisa%2B1%2Bsinging%2Bworkshop%2B-%2Bcropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bst_VXta54g/VLWT9argWbI/AAAAAAAAAyU/5lYaxhQhYgo/s1600/Lisa%2B1%2Bsinging%2Bworkshop%2B-%2Bcropped.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein), singer, poet, intuitive consultant" height="200" width="154" /></a>
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) </span><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px;">is a singer, poet, and clairvoyant reader, healer, and coach with five CDs and two books to her credit. She received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and others. She has taught at San Francisco State University, the Jazzschool, Anna Yates Elementary School, and Allendale Recreation Center. See <a href="http://www.lisabmusic.com/" target="_blank">www.lisabmusic.com</a>.</span></span>
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b><br></b></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b>“Lisa Bernstein's mix of spoken word poetry...and passionate jazzy, high-register vocalizing is …hard to resist.”</b> <i>- All Music Guide</i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b><i><br></i></b></span>
</div>
<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">
<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4599990844727px;"><b><i>“</i>I know Lisa as an accomplished poet and singer. Recently I had a chance to experience her other skill as an intuitive. I would recommend her without reservation to anyone who is curious to know more about themselves.”</b> - <i>Ben Flint, pianist and educator</i></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-lPYkciyd42c%2FVLWdVU2OKrI%2FAAAAAAAAAyw%2FmzW3HwaEdvo%2Fs1600%2Fblue_bear_150sq.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPYkciyd42c/VLWdVU2OKrI/AAAAAAAAAyw/mzW3HwaEdvo/s1600/blue_bear_150sq.jpg" -->
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/6175544
2014-11-24T19:56:00-08:00
2020-01-27T02:26:15-08:00
"Love Poem to the Printed Text": Poem by Lisa Bernstein (Lisa B) in "Warning the Stars" Blog
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IpuVxSpynLQ/VEpz9v-bSLI/AAAAAAAACw4/nG1Uj5-ok64/s1600/love%2Bpoem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IpuVxSpynLQ/VEpz9v-bSLI/AAAAAAAACw4/nG1Uj5-ok64/s1600/love%2Bpoem.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="213" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A</span></b> young, Kentucky-based writer, Stacy Lynn Mar, reprinted in her blog a poem of mine from my first (and so far, only) full-length poetry book, which came out in 1989 (<i>The Transparent Body,</i> Wesleyan University Press, new poets series). </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The poem is "Love Poem to the Printed Text." </span><div><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was thrilled to stumble upon it (I don't know Ms. Mar), not only because I was glad she enjoyed it and was moved to write about it, but also because of the synchronicity with my recent reimmersion in poetry for the page. I had been thinking in the previous couple of weeks that I needed more of my poems to appear online. And I had just emailed Wesleyan </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the night before</i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> asking them to take a look at a new poetry manuscript. This writer apparently heard me.</span><div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://warningthestars.blogspot.com/2014/10/love-poem-to-printed-text-by-lisa.html?showComment=1416653026207#c3255049114998570479" target="_blank">http://warningthestars.blogspot.com/2014/10/love-poem-to-printed-text-by-lisa.html?showComment=1416653026207#c3255049114998570479</a></span></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks, Stacy Lynn Mar! I'm wishing you the best in your own writing! </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">More than 40 poems from my newest manuscript have appeared in wonderful literary magazines and anthologies: American Writing; Atlanta Review; Bastard Review; Brilliant Corners; Caliban; Caliban Online; Field; Ironwood; The Kenyon Review; Lilith; Pivot; Ploughshares; Poet Lore; Poetry International; Socialist Review; Tikkun; War, Literature, & The Arts; ZYZZYVA; <i>Beyond Lament; Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust </i>(Northwestern University Press); <i>Homeless Not Helpless</i> (Canterbury Press); <i>Ladies Start Your Engines; Women Writers on Cars and the Road </i>(Faber and Faber); and <i>Orpheus & Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology</i> (University Press of New England). </span><div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But you can't find the poems online, as far as I know.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This </i>blog, though, contains three posts with my poems in them; the first two are from my newest manuscript, and the last is from <i>The Transparent Body</i>:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span></div>
<div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2013/06/rupaul-poem-transvestite-god.html" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2013/06/rupaul-poem-transvestite-god.html</span></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-new-war-in-current-issue-of-war.html" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-new-war-in-current-issue-of-war.html</span></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"><a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2009/06/25-years-of-successful-diabetic-care.html" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21.2999992370605px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2009/06/25-years-of-successful-diabetic-care.html</span></a></div>
</div>
<div><br></div>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/6175545
2014-10-20T17:02:00-07:00
2020-01-27T02:26:15-08:00
"Our House" composed by Graham Nash
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span></b>ne of my favorite songs to perform is "Our House." It feels like a very October tune. The windows are still "illuminated by the sunshine" (at least here in California) but we're drawn indoors to start "staring at the fire."</span><br><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I do it as a ballad in a beautiful arrangement by Grammy multi- nominee Wayne Wallace (<a href="http://www.walacomusic.com/" target="_blank">http://www.walacomusic.com/</a>)</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, who's now known mainly as a Latin jazz composer and player but who has a deep capacity for all kinds of arranging and performance.</span><br><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This recording, with lovely piano by Frank Martin and acoustic bass by John Shifflett, is from my "What's New, Pussycat?" record: mainly songs about cats actual and metaphoric, but also including a few songs on the theme of home. Jim (James) Gardiner of Pajama Studios in Oakland recorded, mixed, and mastered it (<a href="http://www.gardinermusicmentoring.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gardinermusicmentoring.com/</a>)</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are moved to possess or support this music, I'd be very grateful! Please download or purchase it from CDBaby (<a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lisab3" target="_blank">http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lisab3</a>) or iTunes (<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/our-house/id167824648?i=167824739&uo=4" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/our-house/id167824648?i=167824739&uo=4</a>). You can also download from Amazon, but please don't purchase CDs from it because I won't see any proceeds. </span><br><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"I</b></span>'ll light the fire..."</span><br><br><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/iq7uky2McpA" width="560"></iframe>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/6175546
2014-09-16T20:17:00-07:00
2022-06-01T17:47:05-07:00
"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"
<p><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">H</span></b>ere's a video (for lack of a better term, as it includes just a single photo) of my version of Cole Porter's great song "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To." I do it as a bossa. The marvelous players are Frank Martin, keyboard, Troy Lampkins, electric bass, Paul van Wageningen, drums, and John Santos, percussion.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm gearing up to create a show/album of Porter songs. The other song from his repertoire that I've done is here, with dynamic footage galore: <a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2013/10/newvideonightanddaythecatgoddesscoleporterlisab.html" target="_blank">http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2013/10/newvideonightanddaythecatgoddesscoleporterlisab.html</a></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://lisabmusic.blogspot.com/2013/10/newvideonightanddaythecatgoddesscoleporterlisab.html" target="_blank"> </a></span><br><br><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cetULfcmgGE" width="560"></iframe></p>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/6175547
2014-08-22T13:18:00-07:00
2020-01-27T02:26:15-08:00
Introduction to the Recording Experience for Vocalists: New Workshop
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Introduction to the Recording Experience for Vocalists<p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new workshop taught by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) and James Gardiner<p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pajama Recording Studio<p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jack London Square, Oakland</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday, October 12<p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 – 4 p.m.<p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">$85</span><p></p></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Limited to 6 participants - contact Lisa B to register now!</span></span></b><br><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All levels welcome. Age 14 to adult.</span></span></b><br><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Singers, feel free to contact me with questions!</span></span></b><br><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></b>
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">via lisabmusic at hotmail dot com</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f-4dYyeQPwM/U_ecSGzlPyI/AAAAAAAAAwI/1X-deWBWOfw/s1600/Jim%2B(James)%2BGardiner%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bcontrols%2Bfx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f-4dYyeQPwM/U_ecSGzlPyI/AAAAAAAAAwI/1X-deWBWOfw/s1600/Jim%2B(James)%2BGardiner%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bcontrols%2Bfx.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Jim Gardiner at Pajama Studio" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<ul><li><b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience singing and being recorded in a world-class recording studio (without having to commit to a full-fledged project)</span></b></li></ul>
<ul><li><b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn techniques to feel warmed up, relaxed, and energized while singing/recording</span></b></li></ul>
<ul><li><b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gain tools to feel clear, calm, and in charge of your project</span></b></li></ul>
<ul><li><b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn the steps involved in the recording process (preparation, team members and their roles, budget, schedule, and marketing)</span></b></li></ul>
<ul><li><b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come away with an mp3 of your recorded singing</span></b></li></ul>
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CAbI07lbjXQ/U_ecb4MklrI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/1TBrAipyrKM/s1600/smiling%2Bstudent%2Band%2BJim%2Bmixing%2Bboard%2BPajama%2BStudios%2Bfx.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CAbI07lbjXQ/U_ecb4MklrI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/1TBrAipyrKM/s1600/smiling%2Bstudent%2Band%2BJim%2Bmixing%2Bboard%2BPajama%2BStudios%2Bfx.JPG" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Jim Gardiner at Pajama Studio with mentoring student" height="240" width="320" /></a></div>
<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BIt7vwU7h94/U_ecmaSkPdI/AAAAAAAAAwY/gqEyaiYouEA/s1600/Pajama%2BStudios%2BAwards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BIt7vwU7h94/U_ecmaSkPdI/AAAAAAAAAwY/gqEyaiYouEA/s1600/Pajama%2BStudios%2BAwards.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="some Pajama Studios gold records" height="212" width="320" /></a></div>
<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-noQcIbEb2ms/U_ecs5mQw4I/AAAAAAAAAwg/nhZydYBS7R8/s1600/Pajama%2BStudios%2BLounge_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-noQcIbEb2ms/U_ecs5mQw4I/AAAAAAAAAwg/nhZydYBS7R8/s1600/Pajama%2BStudios%2BLounge_1.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Pajama Studio lounge" height="212" width="320" /></a></div>
<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2myk3dRaHE/U_ec0K7awqI/AAAAAAAAAwo/chllPOljXjI/s1600/studio%2Bsinger%2Bin%2Bvocal%2Bbooth.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2myk3dRaHE/U_ec0K7awqI/AAAAAAAAAwo/chllPOljXjI/s1600/studio%2Bsinger%2Bin%2Bvocal%2Bbooth.JPG" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Pajama Studio mixing board with view of vocal both" height="212" width="320" /></a></div>
<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cxaJxYFONtM/U_ec6K-3POI/AAAAAAAAAww/h84tNgdIbxY/s1600/Pajama%2BStudios%2BControl%2BRoom%2Bplugins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cxaJxYFONtM/U_ec6K-3POI/AAAAAAAAAww/h84tNgdIbxY/s1600/Pajama%2BStudios%2BControl%2BRoom%2Bplugins.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Pajama Studio, some gear" height="212" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James (Jim) Gardiner</span> </b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">is an award-winning producer, recording engineer, composer, and arranger with two Grammy nominations and 42 gold and platinum awards. He studied trombone and composition at Seattle’s famed Cornish College of the Arts. As composer-in-residence for the state of Washington, Gardiner conducted original compositions, taught high-school and college youth, and won top prize for his Grand Champion Band for three consecutive years at the International Jazz Festival in Reno, Nevada. (Kenny G and his current music director Robert Damper were among the youth mentored by Gardiner.) Gardiner went on to found and lead the professional 17-piece big band jazz orchestra Life-line, which performed West Coast dates with Hank Crawford, Hubert Laws, Johnny Hammond, Grover Washington, Jr., George Benson, and Ron Carter and toured in London, Paris, Luxembourg, and Belgium. </span><br><br><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Gardiner co-founded two prominent recording studios, Live Oak of Berkeley and his current Pajama Studio, which he built in Jack London Square in 1992. Along with recording and nurturing many indie artists who are not yet household names, he has mentored such artists as singers Nikita Germaine and Rosie Gaines and film composer Mark Isham and worked with artists including Deniece Williams, Bobby Kimball (Toto), Destiny’s Child, Will Smith, India Arie, D’Wayne Wiggins, Brian McKnight, Michael Cooper, Sheila E, Vanessa Williams, Jody Watley, Angela Bofill, B’Angie B, Lenny Williams, The Whispers, Najee, Tupac Shakur, Digital Underground, Luniz, Too $hort, Master P, E-40, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Thomas Dolby, Pharoah Sanders, Hubert Laws, Grover Washington Jr., George Benson, Ron Carter, Sammy Davis Jr., Donny Hathaway, Bill Withers, Bobby Hutcherson, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Barry White, John Lee Hooker Jr., Rickie Lee Jones, and Eddie Money. He runs a full-service music production company, Touch-Tone Productions, and Gardiner Music Mentoring, through which he works with youth and adults to develop their musical skills and careers. For more details, see </span><a href="http://www.gardinermusicmentoring.com/" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">http://www.gardinermusicmentoring.com/</a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">.</span><br><br><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)</span></b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> is a singer, poet, educator, and intuitive reader-coach. She has five CDs (on her own label) and two books (published by Wesleyan University Press and Five Fingers Poetry) to her credit. Her CDs received radio play and charting on hundreds of trade-reporter stations and excellent reviews in All Music Guide, Jazz Times, Jazziz, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and many other publications. She received grants and residences from the National Endowment for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Money for Women, the Puffin Foundation, and others. She has taught classes and workshops at San Francisco State, Foothill College, Skyline College, the Jazzschool, Blue Bear School of Music, Anna Yates Elementary School, and the Allendale Recreation Center; performed music and poetry at more than 80 clubs, performance spaces, colleges, and bookstores; and given radio interviews in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York. She has master's and bachelor's degrees in English literature/creative writing from San Francisco State and UC Santa Cruz, respectively. For more information on Lisa B, see </span><a href="http://www.lisabmusic.com/" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">www.lisabmusic.com</a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.lisabintuitive.com/" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">www.lisabintuitive.com</a>.</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br><br>
</div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
tag:lisabmusic.com,2005:Post/6175548
2014-08-18T20:36:00-07:00
2020-01-27T02:26:15-08:00
Fun and Fearless Public Speaking (and Private Conversation): A Workshop
<br><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Fun and Fearless Public Speaking </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>(and Private Conversation): </b></span></div><div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Mind-Body-Spirit Tools for Confident Communication</i></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br></b></span></div>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A workshop taught by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) </b></span></h3>
<div><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sat., September 27, 2014</b></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1 - 4 p.m.</b><b><br></b></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lisa's home </b></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(in a safe, pleasant Oakland, Calif. neighborhood, with plenty of parking)</span></b><b><br></b></span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>$50</b></span></h4>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>(and includes 1/2-hour phone consultation as a followup!)</i></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><br><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><b></b><br></b></span><br><div style="display: inline !important;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><b><b>Open to 8 participants</b></b></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><b></b></b></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><br><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><b>Contact lisabmusic at hotmail dot com to reserve your place now!</b></b></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><b>(I accept credit cards via PayPal at the address shown above, or I can tell you how to send a check)</b></b></span>
</div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b></span>
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>________________________________________________________</b></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Do you want to feel confident, calm, and clear while</b></span></div><div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>* Giving presentations? </b></span></div><div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>* Speaking to groups, large or small? </b></span><br><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>* Being interviewed for a job?</b></span>
</div><div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>* Or simply talking with family, friends, and co-workers?</b></span></div><div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This is the workshop for you! </b></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Includes guided visualization; instruction on tools to help you feel both relaxed and energized, both aware of your audience and personally confident; and time and space for you to practice in a safe setting. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div>
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Convert anxiety and fear into confidence and empowerment</b></span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Feel calmer and more "in your body" when speaking to groups or individuals</b></span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Reconnect with your natural ability to communicate your truth</b></span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Release judgment and invalidation about expressing yourself, whether in speeches or one-on-one</b></span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Learn to protect your personal space</b></span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Harness the power of your major chakras or energy centers (especially those relating to survival, communication, and wisdom)</b></span></li></ul>
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Connect with the lighter side of public (and private) speaking</b></span></li></ul>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gmtUJlIE1OA/U_LDwKKFhyI/AAAAAAAAAvw/5RdlQdcgZHU/s1600/Lisa%2BB_Lisa%2BBernstein_%2Bat%2BBarnes%2B%26%2BNoble.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gmtUJlIE1OA/U_LDwKKFhyI/AAAAAAAAAvw/5RdlQdcgZHU/s1600/Lisa%2BB_Lisa%2BBernstein_%2Bat%2BBarnes%2B%26%2BNoble.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Lisa B_Lisa Bernstein speaking" height="176" width="640" /></a></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) is an educator and performer with more than 25 years of experience addressing groups large and small and preparing others to do the same. She has taught classes and workshops at San Francisco State, Foothill College, Skyline College, the Jazzschool, Blue Bear School of Music, Anna Yates Elementary School, and the Allendale Recreation Center. She also has publicly addressed professional gatherings of social workers, educators, and technical communicators; booked speakers for and emceed many cultural events; performed music and poetry at more than 80 clubs, performance spaces, colleges, and bookstores; and given radio interviews in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York. In addition, as a marketing writer, she has prepared speeches for numerous business consultants and scientists. She has master's and bachelor's degrees in English literature/creative writing from San Francisco State and UC Santa Cruz, respectively. </span><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>
</div>
</div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 17.05pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style='color: #444444; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><p></p></span></i></div></div>
Jazz Singer & Poet Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)