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Education

First West Coast Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute At UCLA Held August 7-11; Culminates With Wild Up Concert On August 11

Source: Jensen Artists
July 31, 2012

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University (CJS), in cooperation with The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and EarShot, the National Orchestra Composition Discovery Network, will present the second Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI) from August 7-11, 2012 for the first time on the West Coast at UCLA. JCOI brings together 38 jazz composers at various stages in their careers chosen from a national pool of applicants, to explore the challenges of writing ...

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Performance / Tour

Abraham Inc. Performs In New York And DC Area on May 2 & 3, 2012

Source: Jensen Artists
April 24, 2012

Abraham Inc. is an unprecedented collaboration among three cultural visionaries – champion of Jewish klezmer music and world-class clarinetist David Krakauer, legendary funk trombonist and arranger Fred Wesley (known for his performances with James Brown, Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins, and many more), and hip-hop renegade Socalled. The multi-genre supergroup and a 10-piece cohort of their musical friends will be taking Abraham Inc. to New York and the Washington DC area for two performances in May 2012. On Wednesday, May 2 at ...

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Recording

Bang on a Can Big Birthday Giveaway: Download new double album FREE for first 25 days of 2012

Source: Jensen Artists
December 31, 2011

Bang on a Can celebrates turning 25 with a very special gift: Download the new album for free during the first 25 days of January in exchange for a Bang on a Can memory or photo at bangonacan25.org. Premiere Recordings of Music by LOUIS ANDRIESSEN (with film), DAVID LONGSTRETH (from the Dirty Projectors), CONLON NANCARROW, KATE MOORE, MICHAEL GORDON, DAVID LANG, JULIA WOLFE, and EVAN ZIPORYN New York, NY—The Bang on a Can All-Stars have recorded their first studio album ...

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Event

June 5-6: First Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings presented by The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and American Composers Orchestra

Source: Jensen Artists
May 31, 2011

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI) Readings at Columbia University's Miller Theatre (Broadway at 116th St.) on June 5 at 2pm (working rehearsal) and June 6 at 7:30pm (run-through). Both events are free and open to the public, giving audiences a chance to look behind the scenes at the process involved in bringing brand new, stylistically diverse orchestral music to life. The JCOI Readings ...

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