Decades later

I'm off to my film premiere.

This pic is called Bigger, Badder and a Whole Lot Madder, by Titilayo
Odd age endings:
I’ll be the first to admit I’ve had a strange life. Who the hell starts playing a sort of unusual instrument at two years old, and keeps doing it for the next 50 years?
But recently I noticed something. Big things keep happening to me in years where my age ends in a 4. In February of 1976, when I was four, I played my first concerto with orchestra.
In the early months of 1986, the assaults at The Curtis Institute by my teacher escalated, and everything went wrong. I was 14.
At 24 years old, I recorded the first of my many albums.
And now, at 54 years old, I am about to witness the World Premiere of my first movie, the documentary Dear Lara.

I went public in 2019 about what happened to me in 1986, and so many people wrote to me with their own histories that I knew had to make a movie. The film documents only a tiny percentage of the stories I now know.
The only way for this preposterously insular, elitist, patriarchal, backwards, white-supremacist, narrow and feverishly misogynist profession to change, will be for the outside world to get a glimpse into what actually happens inside it and demand that it finally evolve.
My hope is that this film will be the snowball that starts the avalanche. I know I’m never going to stop calling this out, and neither will the movie’s subjects. It’s time for women to be allowed to do what they love in music, happily and healthily.

I'm off at the crack of dawn to Santa Barbara. World Premiere is Friday Feb 6th at 5:20 PM, with additional screenings at 3 PM on Sunday Feb 8th and 8:20 AM on Monday Feb 9th. My gratitude goes out to Santa Barbara International Film Festival for their support and their belief in this film. Onwards we fight!

www.dearlara.film
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