BETH FLEENOR aka CRYSTAL BETH
SCA board member Gretta Harley talks with Beth Fleenor, a composer, virtuosic clarinetist, vocalist and performance artist based in Seattle. In her 20-year career, Beth has moved freely through genres including rock, jazz, classical, contemporary, chamber, Slavic and American folk, metal, musique concrete, ambient and pop. In this inspirational interview, she talks with Gretta about:
- The journey and fear and awkwardness of becoming yourself as an artist
- Learning to improvise
- Getting comfortable with the discomfort of making art
- Being a performer during a pandemic
- Art Is The Discipline of Being (a human being, and “the experience of living”)