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Eastman School of Music's Keystone Centennial Event - Opens the Doors
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Eastman School of Music
On March 4, 1922, the Eastman School of Music officially opened its doors to the community. On that date, all the main building’s floors had been completed, including the Main Hall (now Lowry Hall), the Cominsky Promenade, and the stunning Kilbourn Hall. A chamber music concert was given that evening to dedicate the concert space that has now heard thousands of performances ever since. Fast forward 100 years... From March 2 through 6, 2022, Eastman will offer a wide variety ...
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Post-Soviet Jazz: Celebrating 100 Years Of Russian Jazz In 2022
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That Jazz Girl
One fine day in 1921, Russian dancer, poet and performer Valentin Parnakh was in Paris, France when he first heard jazz music. Immediately beguiled, he decided to bring it back to his native Russia, and started planning the first-ever jazz concert performed by Russian artists. Traveling from Paris to Moscow via Berlin, where he acquired the instruments required for this historic performance, he finally presented his brand new group on October 1, 1922, at the Theatre Institute. Ever since, the ...
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Bill Charlap And Bill Charlap Trio Celebrate The Theater Songs Of Leonard Bernstein At New Jersey Performing Arts Center on January 29
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AMT Public Relations
Saturday, January 29th at 7:30 p.m. at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Leonard Bernstein composed some of the most memorable theater scores of his generation—West Side Story. Candide. On the Town—but who was the man behind the music? This edition of NJPAC’s Conversations in Concert, hosted by theater insider Ted Chapin, promises to be a thought-provoking evening of stories about the iconic composer-conductor complemented by Bernstein songs. Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie, will pull back the curtain of her father’s complex ...
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Django Reinhardt's Birthday Celebration Concert at Le QuecumBar in London on Sunday January 16, 2022
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Le QuecumBar & Brasserie
Swing like Django Reinhardt with Le Q Patron and UKs finest wizard of Swing the Gary Potter Quartet. We have some special guests joining the celebration! This will be an informal celebration of fun and joyous swinging music with a FREE Bellini on arrival! Gary Potter plays with an unique infectious joy and a style of his own, jumping seamlessly from Django Gypsy style to finger picking country style never missing a beat or straying from the melody of Djangos ...
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The Grammy Award-Winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Will Celebrate Its 19th Season With The Annual Big Beat Gala Fundraiser Hosted By Big Freedia On December 4th
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ARE Group
The Grammy award-winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra will celebrate its nineteenth season with the first annual Big Beat Gala fundraiser hosted by Big Freedia on Saturday, December 4th. The gala is co-chaired by renowned author Walter Isaacson, Laverne Toombs, Executive Director of the New Orleans Black Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Adonis Rose, Artistic Director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Songs: The Music of Allen Toussaint, was the fourth studio recording by the Orchestra and the first under new ...
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7 Virtual Jazz Club's Contest - Live Concerts
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Valerio Pappi
7 Virtual Jazz Club’s Contest is pleased to announce the concerts of the winners of the 2020 Edition. The concerts will be held at the Jazz Club Ferrara and will be streamed live on Facebook. Tommaso Perazzo Quartet November 19, 2021 | 9 p.m. CEST Tommaso Perazzo Quartet (Tommaso Perazzo , piano, Ben Fitzpatrick , saxophone; Jort Terwijin double bass, Giacomo Camilletti, drum) was born in 2018 thanks to the meeting of the four musicians at the Amsterdam Conservatory. The ...
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Djerassi Films Presents: Resurrection! Airto Moreira And Preservation Hall Jazz Band At The 24th Unaff
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Press Junkie PR
Djerassi Films is excited to present Resurrection! Airto Moreira and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the 24th UNAFF on Saturday, Oct. 23rd. In this new documentary, producer/director Dale Djerassi brings two powerful forces in the world of jazz together and takes us behind the scenes as famed percussionist Airto Moreira joins the Preservation Hall Jazz Band during Mardi Gras in the Big Easy. Airto Moreira is a world-renowned jazz drummer and percussionist from Brazil, who exhibited great talent at ...
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Eastman School of Music Centennial Celebration Hosts Conferences, Festivals, and Artists-in-Residencies
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Eastman School of Music
The Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester, is proud to announce three major festivals, multiple national academic conferences, and several artists-in-residencies during its three-semester-long centennial celebration. Beginning in fall 2021 and continuing throughout 2022, Eastman will feature numerous performances by world-renowned artists—including composers, vocalists, instrumentalists, and quartets—both alongside student groups and as part of residencies, masterclasses, conferences, and festivals. Residencies Composer Ben Moore Residency: September 24, 2021. Eastman’s Voice, Opera, and Vocal Coaching department continues Moore’s year-long ...
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