Now Playing: The Best Is Noise - (4/28/25) Julius Eastman: To Speculate or Not To Speculate? (feat. Leonard Bopp and Isaac Jean-François)

I speak with returning guest Leonard Bopp (@leonard_bopp), conductor of the visionary BlackBox Ensemble (@blackboxnewmusic), and brilliant Julius Eastman scholar and Yale doctoral candidate Isaac Jean-François (@isaacajfr) ahead of their upcoming performance at @bangonacan's Long Play Festival (May 3) and their concert at the Whitney Museum (May 11): Two concerts of beautifully radical music that Eastman heard and that influenced his style.