Greetings, dear Scorekeepers! It's time for episode 15 of THE SCORE!!! This week, we are thrilled to welcome our wonderful guest, composer, Juilliard professor and all-around smart and lovely person, Trevor Weston! Join us for a fun and fascinating conversation as we take a journey through Black music history from Africa to the present and discuss the state of arts education. (0:31:16) Before that though, we give our take on CBS' incredibly upsetting and much-pilloried disaster-in-the-making, The Activist. Who could have possibly thought a reality competition show that pits activists against each other for funding would be a hellish, craven dystopian nightmare, y'all? 🙄 (0:00:33) And finally, we'll get your week started with a little PB&J! And as we all know Pure Black Joy starts at home. (1:26:39) Let's do it to it, y'all!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds

Guest: Trevor Weston

Producer: Rocky Jones

Links

Trevor Weston (Website) (Instagram)

Temple University New Music Ensemble - Oct. 6 (Buy Tickets)

Network for New Music, Phila. - Nov. 7 (Buy Tickets)

Chamber Orchestra of the Strings, Colo. - Nov. 7 (Buy Tickets)

Harvard University Collegium Musicum - Nov. 7 (Learn More)

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