The acclaimed pianist reflects on music’s power to unite across division and express the nation’s most complicated emotions over the past 250 years.
By Anne Brice
Pianist Lara Downes performs alongside the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir for This Land: Reflections on America, the final event of Cal Performances’ spring season. Other artists in the May 9 performance included folk icon Judy Collins, poet Tarriona "Tank” Ball and the bluegrass quartet Invoke.
Brittany Hosea-Small
Poet Tarriona "Tank” Ball performs with Invoke.
