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Category: Women can have it all

Listen to the Women and Girls of Iran

Posted on January 1, 2023January 13, 2023by JC AgidLeave a comment

Listen to the Women and Girls of Iran

It was gigantic and staring at me. Everyone around seemed as mesmerized by it as I was: an eye, wide open. It was staring at the sky, too, and it covered most of the steps of Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park at the far end of the oblong Roosevelt Island on the East River, an unlikely urban cable car stop away from Manhattan. In the background, lurking in the shadows, stood the 39-story United Nations building, proud and self-confident. 

In that park, at the bottom of the steps that morning of November 28, 2022, every spoken word and every single stare were targeted at the United Nations, at the United Nations and Iran. 

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Gender Issues, Mujeres, New York, Politics, Society, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Antonio Guterres, Christine Lagarde, Commission on the Status of Women, CSW, Delphine Schrank, Eyes On Iran, For Freedoms, Four Freedoms Park, Franklin Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Ardern, Jîna Mahsa Amini, JR, Leymah Gbowee, Malala Yousafzai, Masha Amini, Melanne Verveer, Michelle Obama, Nika Shahkarami, Oprah Winfrey, Roosevelt Island, Shirin Neshat, United Nations, Vital Voices, Vital Voices for Global partnership, Women Life Freedom, Zainab Salbi

The Masked-Life of a Maestro in Times of Covid-19

Posted on March 14, 2021March 14, 2021by JC Agid1 Comment

The Masked-Life of a Maestro in Times of Covid-19
Part Two of a digital conversation with Keri-Lynn Wilson presented by The American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet
Access to the full video of the webinar at the bottom of the post.

For a year now, governments—and often doctors—have redesigned how people can live to combat and survive the Covid-19 pandemic. In some regions, entire sectors have sometimes been shut down: travels, restaurants, hotels, and sport arenas, but also bookstores, museums, theaters, concert halls, and opera houses. Culture and art often don’t fall into the lines of the iconic contemporary word: ‘essential.’

Remarkably though, the Paris Opera was opened for a few weeks in the Fall of 2020. Hopes were then high in France that Covid-19 was being contained, yet it came back with a revenge. While rehearsing Carmen for her debut at the Bastille Opera, Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson experienced it first-hand. Within a minute, rehearsals were halted, and the opera shut down by the French Government. The same happened for movie theaters, museums, bars, and restaurants. 

Wilson’s dream of conducting in Paris was postponed. So, she went back to New York and resumed what she had been doing since March 2020: sharing music online and studying new scores. She created a ‘Becoming the Conductor Series,’ on Instagram, launched a YouTube Channel, built her own playlist on Spotify, and shared many videos and recordings on her website.

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Posted in Amazing Women, ART, Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, Culture, Fire Chat With, Marion Naufal, Paris Opera, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment
Tagged Alexander Neef, American friends of the Paris opera and Ballet, Aurelie Dupont, Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, Carmen, JC Agid, Juilliard School, Keri-Lynn Wilson, L'Opera Chez Soi, La Bayadère, Marion Naufal, marionnillustrations, Olivia Tournay Flatto, Opera de Paris, Paul Marque, Prokoviev, Tchaikovsky, The Laboratory Orchestra, Wagner

The Postponed Musical Feast of a Woman Maestro in Paris

Posted on March 7, 2021March 16, 2021by JC Agid2 Comments

The Postponed Musical Feast of a Woman Maestro in Paris
Part One of a digital conversation with Keri-Lynn Wilson presented by The American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet
Access to the full video of the webinar at the bottom of the post.
A French version was published via Le Petit Journal

Only a handful of women conducted at the Paris Opera, and none of them ever took her baton to present Carmen, possibly one of the greatest operas of all time. The Canadian-born Keri-Lynn Wilson was supposed to do just that—and to also make her debut in Paris last December. 

With the threat of Covid19 everywhere, and the measures local and national governments have taken to contain the pandemic, Wilson’s calendar has been reduced to just a few performances. A digital tour of her website (here) lists the many changes: A Concert with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Opera Gala at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carmen at the Bastille Opera, Rigoletto with the Bayerische Staatsoper, all canceled… With the exception of the opening streamed-concert of Mozart’s Week last January 21st, Wilson actually has not conducted for a live audience since March 2020.

Yet, had the French Government not decided to shut down all theaters in France a few days before the Christmas holidays, she would have led an exceptional performance, in times of Covid19 and in a major European city. A musical feast.

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Posted in Amazing Women, ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Fire Chat With, Not At Home With, Paris Opera, Women can have it all
Tagged AFPOB, Alexander Neef, American friends of the Paris opera and Ballet, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bizet, Bolshoi, Calixto Bieito, Carmen, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Don José, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, JC Agid, Keri-Lynn Wilson, La Bayadère, Marion Naufal, marionnillustrations, Mozart's Weekl, Mozarteum Orchestra, Opéra Bastille, Paul Marque, Rigoletto, Royal Opera House, Un Ballo in Maschera, Warsaw Opera

Letter to Angella Nazarian

Posted on March 3, 2021March 10, 2021by JC AgidLeave a comment

Letter to Angella Nazarian
On the eve of Visionary Women Summit 2021 – https://www.visionarywomen.com
(Quotes below, unless in italics, are invented, and the attribution to people is purely fictional)

Dear Angella;

Do you remember the cobblestone streets of Coyoacán in Mexico City, a far cry from the busy double deck jammed highways that drive across the megalopolis? I am sure you remember the first time you pushed the double green doors of the Blue House—Casa Azul, the home of Frida Kahlo. I do, and I have returned there so often.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Gender Issues, Marion Naufal, Society, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Africa, Women in Mexico
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The Vital Power of Youth and Words

Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021by JC Agid2 Comments

The Vital Power of Youth and Words: 22-year-old Poetess Amanda Gorman to Perform at Joe Biden’s Inauguration

A Rock, a River, a Tree 
Hosts of species long departed
Marked the mastodon,
The dinosaur, who left dried tokens
Of their sojourn here

Maya Angelou, On The Pulse of Morning

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