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EDITOR’S NOTE The Santa Cruz Symphony opens its rehearsals at the Santa Cruz Civic to the public for free. I mention this because if you want to understand what a conductor does, and how an orchestra really works, that’s where to start. Far from the silent, stoic figure whose only means of communication seems to be wild gesticulations that are mostly lost on the general public, the conductor at a rehearsal is in constant verbal contact with the players in his or her orchestra, offering guidance, figuring out what passages are giving them trouble, and in a larger sense explaining what he or she is hearing, and in what direction it should go. Sitting in on a Santa Cruz Symphony rehearsal, I was struck in particular by some of the things that Daniel

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Thank you for the excellent article on the Ebb and Flow Festival and the San Lorenzo River (GT, 5/31). Articles like this are part of what we need in order to transform the wonderful positive energy of the festival into genuine stewardship for the river. I am imagining a future where ideas like “businesses turning around to face the river” are carried out in a way that reflect our community’s understanding and deep caring for the sensitive habitats that grace the center of our town. MICHAEL LEVY | SANTA CRUZ

ADULTS ONLY Re: Zone Defense (GT, 5/31): Excellent article by Jacob Pierce. How refreshing to read about both sides of the housing story. I hope that the YIMBYs and NIMBYs can find common ground. Santa Cruz really needs housing, and neighborhoods deserve to maintain their integrity. All parties must respectfully listen to points of view other than their own, refrain from anger and name-calling, and work toward a compromise that will benefit all concerned. I sincerely hope that this issue

Stewart—the conductor and artistic director, and the subject of my cover story this week—says to the players. Do you think a lot of symphony conductors out there are saying things like “let’s see what we can find in this song” and “let’s see what else we can discover?” I highly doubt it. Stewart brings an incredibly empathic energy to his role—not just while they practice, but also afterward, as a line of musicians stops to talk to him on their way out the door. Running parallel to that gentle calm, though, is an incredible energy and passion that has pushed the Santa Cruz Symphony to its current level of acclaim and visibility. That profile is likely to get even higher with the return of pianist Yuja Wang on June 24 and 25. The story of how these concerts came to be, and the way in which Stewart and Wang’s shared vision for the future of classical music has created a bond between them, was fascinating to me. I hope you find it to be so, as well. STEVE PALOPOLI | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

will not be exploited for political gain by anyone. Time will tell us whether the dialogue degenerates into an emotional brawl or whether there are any “adults in the room.” ROBERT DEFREITAS | SANTA CRUZ

ZERO REASONS Re: Two-part series on future housing plans for the city of Santa Cruz: Good news! If you want to live in a place with increased density, fiveand six-plus story buildings blocking sunlight and dwarfing trees, doubled traffic, and parking challenges reaching deep into residential neighborhoods, you can! It’s called moving somewhere else. Fantastic urban metropolises already exist, and I see zero reasons why we have to become one to accommodate the endless stream of people trying to move here with and without jobs or money.

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Last year, the Screaming Hand exhibition at the Museum of Art and History brought skate art to the world of painters and portraits. Now at the Tannery Arts Center, Arts Council Santa Cruz County is doing the opposite—with visual artists from all backgrounds putting masterpieces on skateboards. The 23 decks are on display at Radius Gallery through July 7, when they’ll be raffled off to benefit the council, which is also hosting a “meet the artists” event from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14 at the gallery.

Best friends Otter Jung-Allen and Lee Mokobe received invitations to the Buzzfeed Queer Prom in Los Angeles, and ended up prominently featured in videos about the exciting experience. The two, who moved to Santa Cruz this year from Pennsylvania, were also members of the royal court. Celebrities were there in support, and singer Adam Lambert was on hand to crown the court. The inspiring series has seven videos on YouTube. Actress Evan Rachel Wood told the crowd, “Remember, you’re not a black sheep. You’re a unicorn.”

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SLIPPED AWAY Re: “The Untold Story of Pete the Poet”: I am so saddened to hear about Pete. He was my teacher, my basketball coach, my confidant and my friend when I was 15. He was a very special person to me. So shy, smart and >8

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ROB BREZSNY FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of June 14 ARIES Mar21–Apr19

LIBRA Sep23–Oct 22

You have to admit that salt looks like sugar and sugar resembles salt. This isn’t usually a major problem, though. Mistakenly sprinkling sugar on your food when you thought you were adding salt won’t hurt you, nor will putting salt in your coffee when you assumed you were using sugar. But errors like these are inconvenient, and they can wreck a meal. You may want to apply this lesson as a metaphor in the coming days, Aries. Be alert for things that outwardly seem to be alike but actually have different tastes and effects.

You’ll never get access to the treasure that’s buried out under the cherry tree next to the ruined barn if you stay in your command center and keep staring at the map instead of venturing out to the barn. Likewise, a symbol of truth may be helpful in experiencing deeper meaning, but it’s not the same as communing with the raw truth, and may even become a distraction from it. Let’s consider one further variation on the theme: The pictures in your mind’s eye may or may not have any connection with the world outside your brain. It’s especially important that you monitor their accuracy in the coming days.

TAURUS Apr20–May20 Here’s a possible plan for the next ten days: Program your smart phone to sound an alarm once every hour during the entire time you’re awake. Each time the bell or buzzer goes off, you will vividly remember your life’s main purpose. You will ask yourself whether or not the activity you’re engaged in at that specific moment is somehow serving your life’s main purpose. If it is, literally pat yourself on the back and say to yourself, “Good job!” If it’s not, say the following words: “I am resolved to get into closer alignment with my soul’s code—the blueprint of my destiny.”

SAGITTARIUS Nov22–Dec21

Actress Marisa Berenson offers a line of anti-aging products that contain an elixir made from the seeds of a desert fruit known as prickly pear. The manufacturing process isn’t easy. To produce a quart of the potion requires 2,000 pounds of seeds. I see you as having a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming weeks, Gemini. To create a small amount of the precious stuff you want, I’m guessing you’ll have to gather a ton of raw materials. And there may be a desert-like phenomena to deal with, as well.

Over the years I’ve read numerous news reports about people who have engaged in intimate relations with clunky inanimate objects. One had sex with a bicycle. Another seduced a sidewalk, and a third tried to make sweet love to a picnic table. I hope you won’t join their ranks in the coming weeks. Your longing is likely to be extra intense, innovative, and even exotic, but I trust you will confine its expression to unions with adult human beings who know what they’re getting into and who have consented to play. Here’s an old English word you might want to add to your vocabulary: “blissom.” It means “to bleat with sexual desire”

There are three kinds of habits: good, bad, and neutral. Neutral habits are neither good nor bad but use up psychic energy that might be better directed into cultivating good habits. Here are some examples: a good habit is when you’re disciplined about eating healthy food; a bad habit is watching violent TV shows before going to bed, thereby disturbing your sleep; a neutral habit might be doing Sudoku puzzles. My challenge to you, Cancerian, is to dissolve one bad habit and one neutral habit by replacing them with two new good habits. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, cosmic forces will be on your side as you make this effort.

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Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to go gallivanting so heedlessly into the labyrinth. Or maybe it was. Who knows? It’s still too early to assess the value of your experiences in that maddening but fascinating tangle. You may not yet be fully able to distinguish the smoke and mirrors from the useful revelations. Which of the riddles you’ve gathered will ultimately bring frustration and which will lead you to wisdom? Here’s one thing I do know for sure: If you want to exit the labyrinth, an opportunity will soon appear.

GEMINI May21–June20

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“Dear Dr. Astrology: Good fortune has been visiting me a lot lately. Many cool opportunities have come my way. Life is consistently interesting. I’ve also made two unwise moves that fortunately didn’t bring bad results. Things often work out better for me than I imagined they would! I’m grateful every day, but I feel like I should somehow show even more appreciation. Any ideas? -Lucky Leo.” Dear Lucky: The smartest response to the abundance you have enjoyed is to boost your generosity. Give out blessings. Dispense praise. Help people access their potentials. Intensify your efforts to share your wealth.

VIRGO Aug23–Sep22 Years ago, a fan of my work named Paul emailed to ask me if I wanted to get together with him and his friend when I visited New York. “Maybe you know her?” he wrote. “She’s the artist Cindy Sherman.” Back then I had never heard of Cindy. But since Paul was smart and funny, I agreed to meet. The three of us convened in an elegant tea room for a boisterous conversation. A week later, when I was back home and mentioned the event to a colleague, her eyes got big and she shrieked, “You had tea with the Cindy Sherman.” She then educated me on how successful and influential Cindy’s photography has been. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience, Virgo: inadvertent contact with an intriguing presence. Hopefully, because I’ve given you a heads up, you’ll recognize what’s happening as it occurs, and take full advantage.

CAPRICORN Dec22–Jan19 Your life in the coming days should be low on lightweight diversions and high in top-quality content. Does that sound like fun? I hope so. I’d love to see you enjoy the hell out of yourself as you cut the fluff and focus on the pith . . . as you efficiently get to the hype-free heart of every matter and refuse to tolerate waffling or stalling. So strip away the glossy excesses, my dear Capricorn. Skip a few steps if that doesn’t cause any envy. Expose the pretty lies, but then just work around them; don’t get bogged down in indulging in negative emotions about them.

AQUARIUS Jan20–Feb18 Inventor, architect, and author Buckminster Fuller lived to the age of 87. For 63 of those years, he kept a detailed scrapbook diary that documented every day of his life. It included his reflections, correspondence, drawings, newspaper clippings, grocery bills, and much other evidence of his unique story. I would love to see you express yourself with that much disciplined ferocity during the next two weeks. According to my astrological analysis, you’re in a phase when you have maximum power to create your life with vigorous ingenuity and to show everyone exactly who you are.

PISCES Feb19–Mar20 You have a cosmic license to enjoy almost too much sensual pleasure. In addition, you should feel free to do more of what you love to do than you normally allow yourself. Be unapologetic about surrounding yourself with flatterers and worshipers. Be sumptuously lazy. Ask others to pick up the slack for you. Got all that? It’s just the first part of your oracle. Here’s the rest: You have a cosmic license to explore the kind of spiritual growth that’s possible when you feel happy and fulfilled. As you go through each day, expect life to bring you exactly what you need to uplift you. Assume that the best service you can offer your fellow humans is to be relaxed and content.

Homework: Do a homemade ritual in which you vow to attract more blessings into your life. Report results at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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Growers worry that regulations for pot in Santa Cruz County will fuel black market BY JACOB PIERCE

renda, a medical cannabis grower, is in the process of showing me to her garage when she pauses and turns to discuss the evolving weed rules. “I appreciate where we are now,” she says. “But we won’t get to where we need to be unless we keep working.” Brenda, who asked us to withhold her last name, has been networking locally and pushing for regulations that won’t punish small cultivators like herself, ever since the Cannabis Choice Cultivations Committee began meeting in 2015.

Inside Brenda’s garage, 50 small cannabis plants—all from hybrid strains she crossed herself—sit in plastic pots. Their leaves fidget and shimmy in a lush, aromatic breeze that blows around the room—from a fan up above, an air conditioning unit to the side and a cooling system in all four corners. “I’ve walled myself up in here because I don’t want anyone to smell it,” she says. “I don’t want it to bother anyone. I want it to be clean.” Brenda grows for her own personal medical use to soothe her arthritis, but also sells to

dispensaries. She says she does her best to follow every rule, but that’s a difficult challenge, given the sometimes conflicting positions from government officials. In a perfect world, she says, last year’s Proposition 64, which legalized cannabis for recreational use in California, might have taken some of the pressure off. Instead, she worries that the resulting county regulations will have the opposite effect, barring her and hundreds of other local cultivators from legally growing for sale. A draft county ordinance >12

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There’s one dog in the county for every five or six Santa Cruz County residents, according to census numbers and estimates from the local animal shelter. And as the weather warms up, the 29 miles of pristine beaches that line the county’s extensive coastline is an almost irresistible draw for dog owners, and a paradise for dogs. But even paradise has its limits. Jon Alvarado, a newly hired officer for Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter, patrols the county’s beaches each day, and takes dog-off-leash rules seriously. “We’re beginning to ticket people more on the beach,” he says, while standing on 26th Avenue Beach, watching free-roaming offenders. “Don’t think because it’s a Tuesday that we won’t be enforcing leash laws.” When Alvarado’s badge comes out, lawbreaking beachgoers know he means business, and their fleeting sense of absolute freedom comes to an abrupt end. “Go to the dog parks, or go to Mitchell’s,” the officer will tell them. Todd Stosuy, field manager for the shelter, is at the beach with him, and they’ve already spoken with a few dog owners today. For years, officers like Alvarado “looked the other way,” he says, and allowed offleash puppies to play on shores. But the county, which runs the shelter, started getting complaints four years ago. The penalties for disobeying leash laws are steep, upward of $300 in some cases, and the shelter is actively stepping up enforcement efforts around the county. Amy Brunette, a veterinary technician at Companion Animal Hospital, wishes that she and her Chihuahua, Peanut, had more options for off-leash recreation. “I love my dog and I wish we had more places for offleash play. And I wish more beaches had off-leash laws for my dog,” she says. “It’s not right. Now we have to go to dog parks.” As the shelter adds more officers, it’s becoming harder for people like Brunette to find places to bring their four-leggeds, with officers patrolling the unincorporated areas and county beaches. Stosuy says the shelter is taking over a contract for the city of Capitola, as well, and stepping >14

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DON’T GET BURNED Many established growers who registered for cultivation licenses did so with assurances that they would be better off getting in line— even if their current location doesn’t meet zoning requirements right now. But as they await new information, the situation is creating a blazedup version of musical chairs, with business owners like Brenda trying to figure out where they’re going to grow next year. Cultivators are hoping to convince county officials to let them partner up and split parcels, sharing grows with multiple licenses per property. It’s something that’s allowed in Monterey County and in Oakland, but it isn’t in Santa Cruz County’s draft ordinance yet, and officials can’t yet say—as they await environmental documents—how keen they’ll be on such a setup. But activists say the ordinance will need some adjustments if it’s going to accommodate everyone. “As we all know, there’s a limited resource in Santa Cruz called land,” says Pat Malo, co-founder of Green Trade, a new association representing Santa Cruzans in the cannabis industry. “And there’s also an issue with the price of land. … Buying land is not really possible for most people, even in cannabis, where people think that owners have lots of money, but usually they’re just

getting by like every other business.” A recent Green Trade meeting gathered to discuss the murky regulatory framework for local cannabis. Jim Coffis, the group’s other co-founder, took a hand count to see how many people had registered for licenses with the county. “That’s pretty good,” he told the crowd, as about 30 hands slowly went up in the air at the May 31 gathering. He followed up: “How many people own or lease land in the county that you believe to be compliant with the county’s ordinance?” Only about 10 hands went up. Local cannabis attorney Ben Rice has been sending messages back and forth with subscribers to his email list, looking for cultivators who wouldn’t be allowed to grow under the county’s new ordinance, as well as people who have land they can share, and he’s organizing all of the information on a spreadsheet to try to connect them. So far, he’s heard from about 75 people looking for land, and only five with some to spare. He concedes his methods aren’t perfect, and says he’s started trying to reach out to possible interested landowners in other ways. Malo’s running joke is that Green Trade should set up a “speed dating” night to make connections among weed entrepreneurs and landowners. The County Board of Supervisors did ask staff to consider allowing multiple licenses per parcel, but only on properties 40 acres or more in size. Rice would additionally like to see Daniel Peterson, the county’s new pot licensing official, have some discretion to hear appeals from growers that nearly meet the requirements and have a case to make. In some ways, the task at hand is a little bit like trying to settle the Wild West within a few short months—especially given the confusion that’s surrounded cannabis for years. “There will be both an adjustment period and a paradigm shift for members of the cannabis community to transition into a regulated environment,” Peterson says via email. Obviously, the challenge of a cannabis cultivator is greater than simply running one’s own business.

He or she must also navigate an increasingly complex landscape of licenses, taxes, building permits, water permits, ag rules, and fire code standards. For now, Malo urges weed entrepreneurs not to embark on any big business decisions. They probably shouldn’t buy or build anything yet, he says, because no one knows what the ordinance will or won’t allow. Malo and Coffis worry that if the county passes overly stringent regulations, it will just send people to the black market, making the local pot supply unsafe for customers, and creating a mess for law enforcement. It would also leave a hole in potential tax revenue for both the county and state. At the same time, District 1 County Supervisor John Leopold says the county can’t just turn a blind eye to environmental considerations or the concerns of neighbors. “This is pretty complicated stuff, because it’s a new area of land use,” he says. “And we’re going to do a really good environmental review, because if we’re not careful and someone doesn’t like it, they could sue us, and that isn’t in the best interest of cultivators or the community.” The state’s Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation plans to start handing out state licenses to recreational growers in 2018, when recreational weed sale is supposed to begin. And regulators will prioritize cultivators who are in “good standing” with local officials. That would be straightforward if the county could finalize its ordinance by the end of the year, but things don’t look to be on that timeline. Malo wants the county to promise “letters of good standing” to established cultivators following the rules—an idea to which planning staffers and the Board of Supervisors have been generally warm.

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FUR BETTER OR WORSE <11 up patrols for the summer—although his officers do walk the beat year-round. Stosuy says many owners seem to believe these beaches are off-leash, even though they never have been. “The leash laws are for public safety,” he says. “We have to be community-minded.” An effort to designate off-leash county beaches stalled out a couple of years ago before the parks and recreation commission Some dog owners find they have more luck at state-run spots like Its Beach, part

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Puppy places, in general, have been gaining momentum around the county. Over the past five years, the number of dog parks has risen by 20 percent nationwide, according to the Trust for Public Land, which has deemed off-leash dog parks one of the hottest and fasting growing segments of municipal parks. The dog park trend has grown locally as well, with parks now stretching from Scotts Valley to Watsonville—seven of them in the city of Santa Cruz alone. The topic is often a hot-button issue for park lovers, some of them eager to see more spaces for free-range dogs, and others hoping to keep leash laws as they are. The city’s draft

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SOUND AND VISION Above: Daniel Stewart, conductor and artistic director of the Santa Cruz Symphony. Left: Pianist Yuja Wang, who’ll perform with the symphony June 24 and 25. PHOTO LEFT: IAN DOUGLAS. PHOTO RIGHT: DINA SCOPPETTONE VIARA & JAMES DE LEON

he Santa Cruz Symphony operates within what local musicians jokingly call the Freeway Philharmonic. The term refers to any orchestra in Northern California that isn’t the San Francisco Symphony or the San Francisco Opera. “If you’re not in those two groups, you need to play in a variety of these things just to make a little bit—and

then you have your day job,” says Daniel Stewart, conductor and artistic director of the Santa Cruz Symphony. “These are heroes, these musicians, because they are driving hundreds of miles all over the place just to do what they love and believe in, even though it pays squat. I know what it’s about, I’ve been in the trenches in that world. They’re heroes, and I love them.”

At the other end of the classical music hierarchy are the soloist stars—or in the case of Yuja Wang, superstars. The 30-year-old Chinese classical pianist began studying at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music at age seven, and winning international music competitions around the globe by 11. At age 15, shortly before she made her European debut with the

Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, she began studying at Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. She debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 2006, and some consider her breakthrough to have come a year later, when she played Tchaikovsky with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has been on a seemingly nonstop tour of performing with

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orchestras around the world. Meanwhile, Wang’s charisma and star power have earned her the oftused description “the Beyonce of the classical world.” So it was understandably a surprise when Wang traveled to Santa Cruz in February to perform concertos by Brahms and Prokofiev at two shows that were hailed as the biggest thing ever to happen to the Santa Cruz Symphony. The only thing more outrageous would be if Wang suddenly, out of nowhere, decided to come back to Santa Cruz again—which she will do on June 24 and 25, when she’ll perform another concerto by Brahms, and one by Beethoven. “For Yuja to do two concertos on the same program with any orchestra in the world would be a big deal,” says Stewart. “For her to just play one concerto with a regional orchestra is something she doesn’t do. She doesn’t play with regional orchestras, she plays with the Berlin Philharmonic. So we had the two concertos here, and I thought ‘wow, okay, that’s great.’ And now two more? Four concertos with Yuja Wang in four months?” Certainly the symphony’s musicians were shocked to hear that Wang would be paying another visit to the Freeway Philharmonic. “You should have heard the orchestra’s reaction,” says Stewart. “I said, ‘Great job at the last concert, Yuja had a good time. By the way…’ I’ve never heard an orchestra gasp like that.” Clearly, worlds are not expected to collide like this in classical music. But the real story behind “Yuja II,” as it’s being billed, is that these worlds are not as far apart as they initially seem. First, the 35-year-old Stewart has built the Santa Cruz Symphony’s reputation into something far beyond that of a typical regional orchestra. Second, he and Wang have a lot in common. They met a decade ago as musicians, while Stewart was making his name as an in-demand violist, and they went to school together at Curtis. Their bond has arisen from a shared obsession with the power, passion

and relevance of the music they play, and a bit of a rebel streak in their attitudes about the culture around it. Dedicated and driven, they are, in their own ways, both redefining the classical music world. But maybe don’t make Wang its Beyonce. “I was hoping I’m Rihanna,” says Wang. “She’s younger and she’s more edgy.” She laughs. “I think people used to say I was the Lady Gaga of classical music. And now it’s Beyonce. I guess I got a little curvier.”

THE MAESTRO Like Wang, Stewart began playing at a young age; his mom signed him up for violin lessons at age 4. Growing up in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill and then the North Bay’s Rohnert Park, it was just one of many interests he threw himself into. “It wasn’t until I was 10 or 11, when I started playing in ensembles, that I said ‘wow, there’s this incredible chemistry and complexity and really rewarding fun social aspect to all this.’ Then I started paying more attention to getting better, and I developed,” he says. “I was playing more viola. I was bewitched by the timbre, the deeper sound. There’s some intoxicating draw to certain sounds, and I love that bass resonance.” He played in some youth symphonies, and got his first professional job at 17 with the Santa Rosa Symphony. His reputation as a violist grew steadily, and in addition to scoring a major-label deal to record with Israeli conductor and violinist Maxim Vengerov, he saw a lot of the world at a young age. “Music has been a passport. It took me to over 40 countries as a violist by the time I was 25,” he says. After finishing his grad work at Curtis in conducting, he served as a “cover conductor” for a number of orchestras—Atlanta, St. Louis, L.A., New York—which meant that if the conductor got sick or couldn’t perform for some other reason, he was literally passed the baton. In 2010, Stewart won the Aspen

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Stewart says he went after the job as conductor and artistic director of the Santa Cruz Symphony because he wanted to prove he could get world-class results from a small regional orchestra. But when he talks about his work there, it becomes obvious that he’s motivated by something even bigger than that: he wants to fill a void in both the players around him, and the audiences that come to see them perform. He wants to give people something to believe in. The word

comes up a lot; for example, when he talks about the symphony’s musicians. “‘Freeway Philharmonic’ is a useful term,” he says. “The sobering statistic that I like to give is that our guys make as much in a year with us as a San Francisco Symphony member makes in a week. The conditions are far from ideal, and it’s hard to get a result that you can really feel proud of or really believe in, that you want to invite all your friends to and say ‘this is something special.’ So that’s what my real goal was.” He feels what he calls “an incredible cohesion, a unity and an accuracy” within the symphony now—despite the fact that members rotate around as their other jobs demand. As much as 30 percent of the ensemble may be different from week to week, which means long, tightly executed rehearsals to achieve the performances Stewart seeks. “I want to bring out results from people that they didn’t even think were possible,” he says. “That’s one of the things I’m most proud of, is that we’ve taken folks who don’t have a lot of experience or fancy conservatory training, but through really intelligent planning and rehearsal process, you can encourage them and bring out a result that is something so much more professional and committed than even they had expected of themselves.” The idea of belief comes up when Stewart speaks about the symphony audiences, as well, and the experiences he hopes to give them. “Something I’m acutely aware of is that in any concert experience, the majority of the audience is going to be

MAESTRO ON A MISSION that this is going to be a serious week of music here.’ But you have to prove that it’s worth that.”

THE JOIE DE VIVRE Considering Stewart’s intensity and focus, one would be forgiven for expecting him to be a harsh taskmaster. But in fact, he’s the exact opposite—in not only his conducting style, but also his general demeanor, it’s hard to imagine anyone with more joie de vivre. He brings a disarmingly empathetic warmth to every conversation, and when he smiles— which is often—it seems to take over his whole face. Nothing seems to bring out this delight more than music. Not just classical music—he’s also a selfdescribed “hip-hop head” who was known for his scratching ability in college, and still likes to DJ. But what he likes to do even more is conduct, and he doesn’t require an audience of hundreds at the Santa Cruz Civic. He’ll do it just about anywhere: at Burning Man; at a San Francisco nightclub; in the middle of a design studio; at juvenile hall, for incarcerated kids; in someone’s living room. He organized a flash mob on Pacific Avenue set to Beethoven’s Ninth. He’s arranged music by Radiohead and Verdi, the Beatles and Brahms. “I don’t know, it all just seems to be so much the same thing,” he says. “It’s all part of this bigger musical picture.” In symphony rehearsals, what comes across—even as he briskly battles the clock to get everything into a session—is his appreciation for the musicians, and his desire to explore beyond what’s on the music sheet. Before they play a passage, he’ll sometimes say something like “Let’s see what we can find in this song” or “let’s see what else we can discover.” And when he hears something new that he likes, he’ll say, “Let’s keep that,” or simply “Yes! Yes, yes!” “He brings this friendly energy to rehearsal,” says Nigel Armstrong, who last fall came on as the symphony’s concertmaster—sort

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hearing this piece, whatever it is, for the first or the last time. Think of how vast the repertoire is,” he says. “So if you believe in it as passionately as we do, you want to give a performance that makes this lasting impression on somebody who’s going to hear it for the first time, and maybe it touches them in some way. Maybe it’s the last time someone’s going to hear it, and you want to give a piece its due. Because these pieces are so deep in their potential.” Deep enough for their meaning to stretch across centuries, he says. “It’s why people believe so passionately in a Beethoven symphony, which can seem to some to be so far removed from what life in 2017 is about,” says Stewart. “We feel this sense of emotion that shines through all the technical barriers. It means a lot to us. It’s as meaningful as it was 250 years ago.” In the end, belief is the key to what the symphony has accomplished since he took over as music director in the fall of 2012: “Belief in the process. Belief in their ability,” he says. He credits Granger, who led the symphony for two decades prior to Stewart’s tenure, with drastically expanding the scope and ambition of an organization that began as an all-volunteer orchestra in 1958. Taking over in 1990, Granger earned the Santa Cruz Symphony a “4” rating from the California Arts Council, the highest rating for an orchestra of its size. He drew on his connections within the classical music community to bring in some acclaimed guests, announcing his intentions with a debut concert that featured Leonard Pennario, one of the best-selling classical pianists of the 20th century. Stewart is carrying on that tradition. “My predecessor did amazing things, taking it over 20 years from a volunteer thing to a regional level,” says Stewart. “What I wanted to do was take it from there, from kind of ‘OK, kind of a pleasant week in Santa Cruz, we’ll play there’ to a thing where we get everyone else in Northern California to say ‘oh, they’re very serious about results here. I want to play here. I’ll forgo a higher-paying gig, because I know

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way—and not just in rehearsals, I’m telling you—of letting other people say yes to him. They realize, ‘Did I just … oh my god, I just totally succumbed to what he wanted me to do.’ He has a very charming way of doing that.”

THE UNDIVA At her upcoming Santa Cruz concerts—the first on June 24 at the Santa Cruz Civic, followed by June 25 at the Mello Center in Watsonville—Wang will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with the symphony. For Stewart, this has an important link to Wang’s last concerts in Santa Cruz. “Last time, we did the last concertos of Prokofiev and Brahms. This time, we’re going to do the first concertos of Beethoven and Brahms,” he says, his hand moving, conductorlike, to indicate a circular quality. Of course, whatever connection he’s referring to is probably lost on most people. This is one of the things Wang loves about Stewart. “We’re both such musical nerds,” she says. While audiences here may be dazzled by her star power, the upcoming shows are important to Wang for entirely different reasons. She is going to play-conduct the five Beethoven concertos in Europe in the fall, and “Beethoven One” is the only one of those she’s never played. Learning such a piece in a short time is daunting enough that “people are like, ‘oh, you’re crazy,’” she says. “But for us, it’s like we have to get this. It’s this determination. We have to get rid of all the fears, and nothing else matters.” Stewart and Wang could have set these shows up basically anywhere—in Europe, or a major U.S. city. For Stewart, doing it here was about continuing to build momentum for a program for which he is all in. For Wang, it was about … well, surfing, for one thing. “Danny’s going to take me surfing, which I’ve also never done. I’m really, really looking forward to that,” she says. “Hopefully I don’t

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FRONT AND CENTERED Stewart conducting the Santa Cruz Symphony in 2016. Under his leadership, the symphony has consistently won acclaim for achieving far beyond its classification as a regional orchestra.

to give them an autograph while I was on stage. I didn’t know what to do, you know? That never happened to me while I was playing. I was bowing, about to play an encore. I was like, ‘Should I call security?” she says, with a big laugh. Instead, she gave the autographs, sending the girls off deliriously happy. Gustavo Dudamel, conductor and artistic director of the L.A. Philharmonic was on the stage, too, and later expressed amazement that such a thing would happen at a Bartok concert, of all places. “Bartok is known for being really thorny and kind of unpopular,” Wang says. Just as she was flying high from that experience, though, she got a reality check about the way pop culture works. “I was feeling happy about having

this sold-out concert. And then yesterday I went to Bjork’s concert. Same hall, the Disney Hall. And the audience was just so different. I mean, they jump up before she even started. I go there and nobody knew who I was. One person who did know was like ‘She’s a pianist.’ And it was like ‘Oh, is she a student from Colburn?’” When she talks about Bjork’s show, she seems to be already planning how she can take her own performance even further out from the typical bounds of classical music. “People will talk about my dress and stuff, but the way she dressed was this huge thing. Like, she has a mask! And lighting and everything. There’s just so much production behind the music,” says Wang. “Compared to that, a dress is nothing.” And this is one of the things Stewart loves about Wang. “She’s

The Santa Cruz Symphony’s ‘Yuja II’ shows featuring Yuja Wang are on Saturday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and Sunday, June 25 at 2 p.m. at the Mello Center for the Performing Arts in Watsonville. Tickets are $29-$85; go to santacruzsymphony.com.

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run into a shark or something.” It’s no joke—the impact Santa Cruz’s natural beauty had on her in February was a big part of why she wanted to come back. “Santa Cruz is such a beautiful place. The beaches are so lovely. Same reason I go to Santa Barbara a lot. Being close to nature is such a special part of being a musician, and we have less and less of that,” she says. Wang can certainly pick where she wants to play. Before her Santa Cruz concerts, she played Brahms in London, and before that she did an acclaimed program of Bartok in L.A.—a run that epitomized the unheard-of-in-classical level of crossover success she’s reached. “This week, there are just so many kids coming to my concert. I mean kids like 12, 13, little boys, girls. At one of the concerts, two little girls ran to the front row and asked me

so disarmingly candid,” he says. “She speaks what’s on her mind, and she has such clarity. The extent to which she’s developed the insane talent that she has? That’s why she’s so well regarded across the board in this profession. Her commitment to this freakish talent is extraordinary.” Over the years, he’s seen how success affects and changes people, he says. But not her. “She’s such a down-to-earth, fun, kind, sweet person. It’s amazing how unpretentious she is, despite being arguably the most renowned pianist working today. She’s just the same Yuja I knew 10 years ago.” Both of them want to bring that same quality of groundedness and accessibility to the music they perform, to delight and surprise audiences. Stewart literally shudders at some of the stuffy clichés classical music has been saddled with, like someone getting glared at for clapping at the wrong time. “Ugh, it’s terrible,” he says. “We don’t need any of that. That’s not what it’s about. It’s not what Mozart was about. It’s not what Verdi was about.” Similarly, Wang hates the notion of classical music as some kind of “ivory tower where you can never get up to the sublime idea. It’s not that. The music is down-to-earth,” she says. “It’s written by people who are made of blood and meat just as we are—and probably enjoy surfing, as well.” In fact, she may have stumbled upon the real reason Beethoven was so famously grumpy: “Because he couldn’t go surfing in Vienna.” So if that’s what it takes for the world at large to notice their musical insurgency, then fine, go ahead and call Wang the Beyonce of classical music. “As long as I haven’t turned into the Eminem,” she says, “it’s okay.”

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he first time I walked into the sculpture garden at the Felix Kulpa seven years ago, I was in awe. The Steve Jobs memorial and phone booth fountain, the iconic, fully functioning founditem guitars—like the one made out of a toilet seat and the one made out of a Millennium Falcon model—I’d

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last week when I rushed out of our downtown office to visit him in Capitola, where he is recovering from a massive stroke. When I arrived at Pacific Coast Manor, he was sitting in his wheelchair, a sizable chunk of his skull noticeably absent from the right side of his head. But his sense of humor remained

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sale fundraiser at the MAH on June 17 to benefit Shoen’s recovery. On February 10, a blood clot shot through Schoen’s carotid artery, into his brain, and started to hemorrhage. He was airlifted to Stanford where they removed a portion of his skull to allow the brain’s swelling to subside (the surgery to replace it was on June 6). When he first came to in the hospital, Schoen was confused, he remembers. “I was coming to grips with the reality of my condition: ‘Oh, my left hand doesn’t work right now, oh. I won’t be hanging art for a while.’ And then time is going by and going by and piling up, and you’re laying in bed more than you ever have in your entire life, with a diaper on,” says Schoen. “And then I have obsessions, and I’m impulsive, so I'm trying to do stuff from the bed, like my taxes. I exhaust the people who are helping me, because I’m like a rocket.” The right side of Shoen’s brain was the most impacted by his stroke, so it’s his left extremities that were rendered immobile. He can’t use his left side, and can’t read the first two words of a sentence. At the MAH, where Schoen started in 2006, he was constantly climbing 12-foot ladders, hanging projectors and mounting art. Still, he finds things to keep his spirits up. “I watched all three Hannibal Lecter movies the other day, and now I just look at people and think, ‘How can I eat their face?’” Schoen says with a smirk and a laugh. That’s Robbie, says Marla Nova, who’s worked alongside Schoen at the MAH for more than a decade. “He gets away with it because he smiles and goes ‘ahahah.’ He always makes things fun,” says Novo. “It’s a really great thing to work with people that you enjoy.” On Feb. 10, Novo had a haircut appointment behind the MAH at noon. On her way, she saw Schoen setting up for the museum’s annual Red Ball. “Every time I’ve ever seen Robbie throughout the years we acknowledge each other, and I was late for my appointment so I saw him and he didn’t say anything. Then I went to my hair appointment and about 10 minutes later he had the stroke. It always haunted me

that I didn’t get to say hi to him.” Thankfully, says Novo, Schoen happened to be in the second-floor Solari gallery at the MAH where visitors saw him collapse and called 911. “That was a hard day. It still seems unreal when someone’s life is changed so drastically,” she says. “But then you look for the happy moments and see that he has such loving support around him. He wants to get better and is getting better, that’s a beautiful thing.” So far, 130 local artists have rallied around Schoen by donating their works for the Art for Robbie event—which is the day after Schoen’s 59th birthday, and will serve as an extra big birthday celebration for the guest of honor. They’ve had to start turning artists away, says Sellery, because the MAH won’t be able to hold all the art donated for the event, which will offer all pieces for $200, in addition to a live auction featuring the works of Thomas Campbell, Glenn Carter, Tobin Keller, Tim Craighead, Coeleen Kiebert, Daniella Woolf, and Schoen. There’ll be mixed media, sculptures, paintings, prints, a little bit of everything from the community’s best-known artists, says Sellery, program director for the Cabrillo Gallery. “What we realized is he needs more care than what his subsidized insurance can give, and there is such a long road to recovery,” says Sellery. That’s why all proceeds from the event benefit Schoen’s recovery, says Sellery, in addition to the youcaring.com page, set up for direct donations by his daughter, Nikita. Weeks ago, Schoen told his partner, Jet—who has MS, and for whom Schoen was previously the primary caretaker—that he dreamt his MAH coworkers had come to the hospital with protest signs to get him out. So, that’s precisely what they did. “He’s touched so many people and they’re here and rallying for him. He’s always so thankful to everybody helping,” says Novo. “The last time we talked, I said, ‘It’s going to be a great summer,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, it is. I survived.” Info: 4 p.m., Saturday, June 17. Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. felixkulpa.com. Free.

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ee Fields considers himself a Southern gentleman. Born and raised in North Carolina, he grew up listening to Motown, soul, and what he refers to—with old-time flair—as “countrywestern.” Even though Fields “moved north” when he was 17, this combination of soul and country still defines his music, which includes elements of everything he heard as a youngster, both on the radio and in his everyday life. “I have a deep appreciation for country-western music because of my upbringing,” he says. “Instead of just being introduced to one kind of music, I was introduced to a whole host of music. In school, they

would teach us the classics, like Beethoven, Bach, Chopin and the rest of ’em. My musical appetite, at a young age, was satisfied.” Fields, who is now in his mid-60s, is part of a soul revival wave that’s introducing young people to the sounds and styles of classic soul. Fields and his band, the Expressions, garner comparisons to the Delfonics, the Stylistics and James Brown’s groups. They’re frequently mentioned in the same breath as Charles Bradley and the late, extraordinarily great Sharon Jones—soul artists who, despite a generation gap or two, attract young audiences. When asked why he thinks young people are drawn to his music and

message, Fields explains that they can feel the “warmness of human beings.” Fields admits to using “a little technology now and then,” but says nothing can top real musicians. “Technology is a beautiful thing, and I embrace technology,” he says. “But I don’t believe human beings can be left out of the equation. Back in the day, there were tons and tons of young musicians learning to play different instruments. Nowadays, it’s teetering off. You don’t see as many young musicians as you used to. I’m all for technology,” he adds, “and I’m also all for mankind. It’s a happy medium.” Fields takes an everyperson approach to songwriting. His goal,

when crafting a new tune, is to write about things normal people do and think about—“just general life.” His songs include stories of going to work, dealing with family problems, enjoying simple pleasures and even going to counseling. “I try to write songs about things that people actually do, and that people will automatically identify with—the basic things in life,” he says. “I sort of veered off and got into a Southern soul sound at one point in the ’90s that was more or less blues. I was singing about love and somebody-did-me-wrong songs and that kind of stuff. Now, I try to get as close as I can to getting on-point with what people are thinking and doing at this very moment.” On his latest album, 2016’s Special Night, Fields makes a call for environmentalism and global compassion with the tune, “Make the World.” The song was inspired by a dream he had where trees were bare, water polluted, and there were “indications of pain everywhere.” When Fields woke from the dream, he was gasping because “it was so bad.” When he went back to sleep he recalls that he was taken back into the dream, down that same road to the future—but with a different view. “I saw the trees with beautiful foliage, the water was clear, people were getting along with each other,” he says. “It was more perfect than I could ever imagine. By having that nightmare and having that good dream about the future, it dawned on me that it hasn’t happened.” Fields wrote the lyrics to the song to try to convey to listeners that it doesn’t have to. “We have time,” he says. “I’m not going to say we have plenty of time, but we have time to act now and show concern about each other and show concern about the planet and not be so selfish and act like this whole world is just about us.” Fields’ warmth, concern and humanness shine through in his music, his lyrics and in conversation. As he explains, his big-picture perspective is an appreciation of life and a love of humanity. “Love is the answer,” he says. “That’s what I try to put in my music.” Lee Fields & the Expressions will perform at 9 p.m. on Friday, June 16, at the Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. $20/adv, $25/door. 423-1338.

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