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Jazz resolutions for a New Year
A new year brings new hopes for music in Chicago. Here are key resolutions for 2013: Create a concise Cultural Plan. After months of town hall meetings, the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events last fall came up with a 48-page wish...
Tags: Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Music Theater, Fred Anderson, Culture
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Talking with Al Jarreau: Jazz legend looks back -- and forward -- at career
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGIn many ways, jazz singer Al Jarreau has found his future by looking back. The first piece of evidence is Jarreau’s most recent album, “Al Jarreau and The Metropole Orkest Live” released in June. The singer, best known for his...... -
New visual and performing arts academy at Howard Middle wins national award
Sentinel School Zone - Orlando SentinelThe cast of Howard's Spring 2011 musical “Seussical Jr.” The school's performing arts program is the reason the academy was established there. The new Howard Middle School Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts won a national award last... -
Waynesboro Christmas tree-lighting ceremony Nov. 16
Waynesboro’s tree-lighting ceremony will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16, in Center Square. Hosted by Mainstreet Waynesboro Inc., the event is family oriented with musical entertainment and other activities scheduled. This year, the...Tags: Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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Bears score one for veterans -- via jazz
When the Chicago Bears and the Houston Texans step off the grass at Soldier Field for halftime on Sunday evening, 60,000-plus fans — and possibly a national TV audience — will see and hear something they've never encountered before. For...
Tags: Howard Reich, Culture, Music Industry, Chicago Cultural Center, Music
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CT.com Interview: Ben Ratliff, New York Times Music Critic
Ben Ratliff, jazz and pop critic for The New York Times since 1996 and the author of three books of jazz criticism, has the rare ability to write about avant-garde jazz, doom-metal, indie rock, hip-hop, and probably a dozen or so other musical genres with...
Tags: Wyllys (music group), Music Industry, Wesleyan University, Media Industry, Music
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Teacher Feature: Nancy Kindelspire
Editor's note: This is an occasional series that will feature area educators. This is a question and answer with Nancy Kindelspire of the Leola School. She recently took five of her students to the All-State Chorus and Orchestra concert in Rapid City....Tags: Schools, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Music, Students
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Jazzy party to honor saxaphone greats at East Stroudsburg University
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGThe second annual jazz party to honor late saxophone greats Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, a longtime Poconos resident, and raise money for the Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection at East Stroudsburg University’s Kemp Library and its outreach initiatives,... -
Chicago Humanities Festival: Let freedom swing
How fitting that a festival exploring a theme as vast as "America" should be playing stages across Chicago next month. For no art form reflects the fundamentals of the American experiment more urgently than jazz, and no city has contributed more to the...
Tags: Culture, Chicago Humanities Festival, Moscow (Russia), Immigration, Dizzy Gillespie
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Leadership change planned at Cumberland Valley School of Music
The Cumberland Valley School of Music soon will be getting a new maestro. Andrew Sussman, who has led the Cumberland Valley School of Music as executive director for the past 18 years, will be retiring from that position effective Sept. 1, according to a...
Tags: Music Theater, Teaching and Learning, New York City, Music Industry, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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Celebrating Billy Strayhorn with a three-day soiree
The centennial of the inimitable jazz composer Billy Strayhorn doesn't come around until 2015, but, in a way, the festivities will begin this weekend in the Chicago area. A three-day Billy Strayhorn Jazz Festival organized by the Music Institute of...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Northwestern University, Movies, Vocal Music (genre), Igor Stravinsky
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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
Tags: Willie Dixon, Count Basie, Dominican University, Apollo Theater, Howard Reich
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