welcome to auckland oakland is is about movers and shakers and image makers people who make a difference every day in the ordinary way is and spectacular our special guest today is mr ernie banks feel he has his own academy of music at our topic is going to be mansfield a cabin me of music instruments bill has been a lot of time  ts and other places throughout the world i think berkeley is so fortunate to have him here in the city of berkeley because he teaches a variety of instruments including piano guitar flute sax clarin have been he teaches theory composition and more tell us what the more are those other things well i'm not sure what the more is but you know i do teach some other instruments i teach recorder of time somebody will come to me for other musical instruments and times people need me need help with arranging music a say doing a recording session so that's why i say more and then you help people when they're ready to publish their own compositions yeah i can help them with that and i did work for the publishing and music publishing industry for many many years so in fact a lot of the music books that i use i was involved in the production of those books like for example share share music who does the real books i worked for them for thirteen years and music which is down in san diego who publishes the bastion series of books pretty well known piano method books will i work on those and had a personal relationship with the authors of those books for for many many years so i had a background in all the teaching methods that i use yes well you compose a lot of your own  music well i did compose a lot of my own music and lately since i've been running the music teaching studio it's kind of taken a backseat but i did write a lot of music the orchestra a few years back to do some music and there were only a dozen people selected to do that so that was quite you know that was quite flattering and  but lately i've and i focused on my own you know just teaching and imparting whatever i know to him christ there's so many things that i wanted to find out more about because you have such a fascinating background with connection brubeck another son the younger son he he's a cello player and i used to live around here in the bay area and i got to know him fairly well and i've met all the sons stereoscopes and danny danny s and various his oldest son and in fact i did dave brubeck passed away recently and i sent an email to the brubeck brothers and i said you know the greatest composition dave created was you guys because you to carry on they're all fabulous young musicians yeah yeah yeah i had the fortune of seeing him at the bart station in atlanta he was getting off of  the bart and i was getting on was like transferring to the other place that i had to go to the airport was the airport but that was just a wonderful experience because i thought he was super talented y anything in their lives no matter how right they were or how young well i have a little slogan on my website i think which i kind of borrowed it from someone else but it it like the best time to plant an oak tree is twenty years ago but this next best time is today because you know you can't go back in time but right now it's the best time to do anything a so there are you know when i go to public places and i say i'm a music teacher almost everyone has a story you know every many adults they say well you know i started music lessons when i was whatever can but then we move somewhere and or then my parents couldn't afford the lessons or or i lost interest and and now it's all over for me you know and and and i say well no i mean there's now and you can still learn because i think you know we're adults now but we can always do so many of us have you know we just get into this pattern well it's all over for me you know i can't do anything but we can always learn more and and the learning process itself will help you i mean it's going to help your mind it's going to expand your mind  don't want to go around saying i'll never plan an oak tree yes yeah take the opportunity yeah that still is present yes so that was your philosophy with different people so how many elderly students did you have over the years well let's see i guess it depends on what how we define elderly because but i've had students as old as ninety nine e ok ok i had my oldest student was sort of around ninety and i've had students you know in their eighty's in their seventy's and in some way actually if you were lucky enough to retire then that's great you have time you know you don't have a busy schedule perhaps and you still have time to learn an instrument ok so but the funny thing about all you know i've had students i mean you know college students who are like what early twenty's and they say is it too late for me to learn an instrument and i'm like are you kidding i mean your child still if it's old then you are very motivating in your  philosophy and approach it sounds as though so what but i had a five year old piano student who actually was a cousin but i gave a recital with all of my piano students and he received an outstanding ovation his have to resettles year in my next resettle is coming up soon and and one of my younger students is one of the most entertaining hoons if someone is watching the show would you welcome them to attend or well i would have is just for kids so i have i have kids from you know up till whatever they could be up through high school and older than there used to have adults perform on the same  problem with that is you know young kids expect that adults are perfect you know because mom and dad are perfect right so yes you know that's a that's a hard hurdle for adults  teach different age groups so would you say the majority of your students are in any one category age group well most of my students are probably  to the graphics person i think i did ok and then do you have a website yes would you say what that is yes it's mance field music dot com and field like my name music all one word mansfield music dot com in if you if they want to reach you and you're open to teach any of the different instruments that they might even help on violin no no i don't teach  yet maybe something in the future though do you have private lessons and group lessons or i just do private less so every time a student comes to me they get individual attention oh that's great you know group the adults to realize that they don't have to give up just because you haven't been practicing before they come to you because you're going to give a motivation thank you so much for sharing what you're doing thank you with your academy  francisco there's the oakland it started in oakland i believe of berkeley if i remember correctly right berkeley post yes it was in berkeley many years ago and then all clean and san francisco and mr brooks is going to tell us about things that matter to the african american community and so i've been writing articles with the post for over four years on the subject matter around hiv and aids in the african american community event no one else talks about that no one else writes about and since then it's generated a lot of attention as far as giving people education and ways to get involved in our phone knowledge that helps to reduce transmission r community and said you've been working with barbara lee congresswoman barbara barbara lee i work a lot with barbara barbara lee we're really lucky to have her advantage champion in washington around this subject matter that again no one wants to talk about in africa i believe also i believe congresswoman barbara lee has taken a leadership she has with the global finding them in h i b and aids i mean she led congress and even the president to do  pepfar which is the president and magic johnson has a new t v station that he's putting out that is trying to show all kinds of things that will elevate be african american well i have so much businessman and give back to the community yes yes and you have a book that i think you've been has people might be able to obtain right well again like i said i am a hiv positive policy in legislation and our local things that we do so we put together a book that could be this could be me that could be me and so what that could be me is that anybody to be h positive in this book is barbara lee who did the ford in talking about the work that she's done but also people that aren't hiv positive we're talking about a group of children ever ride bikes in east oakland and one of their fathers died of a and so people talking about how hiv and aids that protected them and it's really photo had beat where you know if a tabletop kind of book you put it on your table  it how do we get it you can get it from allan temples web site allen temple aids ministries website they're asking for a ten dollar donation but again it goes a long ways again back to the first step to dealing with this disease and talking about it so if you purchase is put it on your coffee table people come visit you open it up in you have a conversation about hiv as alan temple baptist church in east oakland allen temple baptist church and he still claims and i guess that would be alan temple dot org dot org yes yes well that's wonderful now that you had some other information you wanted to share about what's going on with the aids work i did again i'm with the group barrett back and so we are dealing with a fourteen year state of emergency that's how arafat came about that in ninety eight they did clear the first ever date of emergency in alameda county around hiv and aids is african american community and i believe congresswoman barbara lee brought that to the attention of everybody if you did barbara lee and also dr mann to davis and we're doing training to really measure if we're any better off so as we do actions in the community to have some type of measurement to see what works and what doesn't work about doing the things  it seems as though it has been addressed in certain areas but it has increased in other areas especially the african american community and that the only one that where it is increased the african american community were affected in a way because of our population in the united states is only twelve percent and that actually mirrors the twelve percent in alameda county but each year we represent fit over half of fifty six thousand alameda county is to few six thousand you know i'm sorry that's a that's a nationwide oh fifty six thousand and transmission every year right and each year african americans relates to african american well we're lucky to have her here in our county fairs she helps us in the county but she addresses it and national nationally and also in africa believe she does right working with the black  working with pepfar and the president and actually president obama is the first president to really address it and he just did a national hiv aids strategy that's why in two thousand and ever first time well i'm so glad that you are keeping us posted so how often is your paper or your your column in the about this issue well i'll try again i've been writing for over four years each week and we buy the paper comes out each week and i try to have went in there each week we are talking about hiv and aids again my group there are facts and how can people hear about that they can contact me at mr mail dot com on my phone number to contact as well ok give us that again please that with my phone number contact it's five one zero five seven five eight two four five are they can g regional african american hiv aids date of emergency coalition once again please the bay area regional african americans hiv and aids state of emergency coalition and what that is local and so that group is responsible for that publication that group that someone of that they've that we worked on and we also were part of them the documentary 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