Today, Robert Geary, founding Artistic Director of both Volti SF and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, as well as Artistic Director for the San Francisco Choral Society, stops by the show for a virtual chat about how the diverse membership of his organizations have responded to COVID with a particular focus on producing visual media that goes beyond the virtual choir. We also discuss the advent of the new music scene in the bay area in the 70’s, and talk shop about some new and exciting composers. 

Music Excerpts

• Klavierstuck V, Work No. 4, by Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Canticum Sacrum, by Igor Stravinsky, performed by the San Francisco Symphony
• Sound from the Bench: (Ch)oral argument, by Ted Hearne
• it sounds like all my dreams, by Anne Hege
• Singing Puzzles, by Danny Clay
• Ave Maria, Robert Parsons, arr. by Joel Chapman
• Quatre Couches from Suite for Voice and Electronics, by Pamela Z 

Theme Song: Mr. Puffy by Avi Bortnik, arr. by Paul Kim. Performed by Dynamic