Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
"Brown Enough" was a delightful book to listen to. Narrated by the author himself, this book felt like you were sitting across the table from him at a coffee shop, just chatting about life- your hopes, dreams, fears, concerns- sharing thoughts and experiences as a brown person in America.
Christopher Rivas is very thoughtful in recounting his failures and his successes as real moments in his life that taught him something, and is careful to emphasize that he is still learning- that we all are.
I enjoyed this book primarily because it made me feel less alone. I'm not the only one who has these thoughts, I'm not the only one who struggles in this way, who ponders their vague place in the middle, who deals with microaggressions and the unrealistic expectations of people we encounter in every day life who want to categorize us into easily-understood boxes and are surprised or frustrated when we don't fit.
The struggle to speak out, the constant exhaustion from being the only one wh
Sixteen-year-old Ilyich Rivas Set To Lead Atlantic Symphony Orchestra At Encore Park 8/15
Sixteen-year-old rising star Ilyich Rivas will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in his U.S. professional debut on Saturday, August 15, , at p.m. Mr. Rivas will lead the orchestra in Verdi's Vespri Overture, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, performed by another rising star, year-old violinist, and Sphinx Competition winner, Elena Urioste.
The summer classical season will conclude with a celebratory firework display by Pyrotecnico. Last year Mr. Rivas was selected as one of seven young conductors from around the world to participate in the prestigious Cabrillo Festival Conductors Workshop in California with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier.
During the workshop, he made a significant impression on both Ms. Alsop and Mr. Meier. Following an audition with the BSO, he was was awarded the position of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Peabody Institute Conducting Fellow, beginning in September This position permits him to
I Think the Clock Is Broken
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. –Heraclitus (c. – BCE)
Sixteen years. Sixteen years of sitting in meditation, and I still think the clock is broken.
I set the timer, whichever little ticking tool that I use to guide my practice. I sit down, settle in, close my eyes, get still, and inevitably, at some point, a thought barges in: “The timer must be broken,” or “the clock must have died,” or “did I forget to set the alarm, there’s no way it hasn’t been thirty minutes already.” I’ve heard that voice hundreds of times. Maybe thousands. And every once in a while, even though I know I set the timer right, I break, I give in and crack an eye open to check, only to see the seconds slipping by exactly as they should. Then, just moments after I close my eyes again, the alarm rings—right on time.
But why? After all these years of practice, why does the thought of sitting still without a specific end make me so uncomfortable? Am I afraid I might never get up? Am I afraid I will miss some life if the alarm doesn’t ring? Is this time anxiety, or simply general anxiety anxiety?
When I firs
The outstanding violinist Ziyu He was one of the youngest soloists with the Vienna Philharmonic when he made his debut with this world-class orchestra under Adam Fischer at the Musikverein in at the age of just The year before, he won both the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition, and in he was the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year.
He has performed with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra St. Petersburg, Macau Orchestra, Suzhou Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Beethoven Philharmonic, RAI National Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the National Center for the Performing Arts, Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra della Toscana, Zagreb Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Among the conductors with whom he has worked are Adam Fischer, Christopher Warren-Green, Choo Hoey, Tung-Chieh Chuang, David Brophy, Diego Matheu
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