“Classical was too scary. You have to be a ninja, basically,” the singer-songwriter Joanna Sternberg said.
And yet somehow, as one sat with the Sternbergs in their living room, one perceived the mighty names not so much being dropped as hovering in the air—as friendly ghosts appreciating that Joanna, the sweet, eccentric prodigy on forty, had found a style and a voice of their own. “No,” Jackie said. She named a favorite song. “I have to brace myself when I hear it. The only other singer who does this to me is Frank Sinatra, and I don’t know him.
Switching from studying classical music to jazz, at the New School, gave Sternberg a way forward: “Classical was too scary. You have to be a ninja, basically.” Sternberg was soon lugging a double-bass on the subway to jazz gigs around town: “Then I spent a year in my room drawing comics and listening to music.” And then composing music that was more direct, more personal, than any they’d been playing.
Sternberg had warned a visitor about that room: “I’m a hoarder. It might smell.” But it wasn’t too bad. The bed was cluttered with clothes, drawings, cartoons, colored pens, and other stuff: “I push it all to the side and sort of . . . nest.” Sternberg teaches drawing and songwriting to kids in the building, and over the years has babysat for more than fifty neighbors.
Sternberg was preparing for a trip out West for some solo shows. They prefer to perform alone, and on the new album play all the instruments—cello, bass, violin, drums, guitar, piano: “I have too much anxiety about a band. It’s easier to do it alone.” There was anxiety, too, about encountering butterflies and moths and procuring a guitar , but not too much about the performances themselves .
Sternberg, who earlier had said, “I’m bad at making segues into big topics,” now said, “It’s time to address the elephant in the room.” Michael and Jackie seemed to hold their breath. Sternberg announced, “I’m obsessed with ‘Real Housewives.’ It became, during the pandemic, like,Michael and Jackie, out of fellowship, had tried to watch. But no. Sternberg said, “Either you get it or you don’t.” ♦
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