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Hit Parade: Open Rehearsal (For a New Song, For a New City)- Western AdditionPost an Event »

Western Addition Branch Library

July 13 - July 13, 2017

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2066 Geary Street San Francisco, CA 94115
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Hit Parade: Open Rehearsal (For a New Song, For a New City)- Western Addition Image: Musical performance by students and police officers at Smith Elementary School. (1971, 1972). From the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, SFPL
Join SFMOMA and SFPL for this free performance by a super-group of SF musicians ( Idris Ackamoor, Minna Choi, Akheel Mestayer, Diana Gameros, Marcus Shelby) coming together for the first time to rehearse publicly one historic SF song that they have never played before. The songs will be selected by scholar and artist Josh Kun from the sheet music collection of San Francisco Public Library. The goal is to gather together as we watch a group of strangers from different neighborhoods as they get to know each other, listen to each other, learn how to play together, and learn to think collectively about how to interpret music from the past in the present of contemporary San Francisco. As San Francisco continues to struggle with crises of gentrification, eviction, and extreme neighborhood change, can music be a model for imagining a new city?