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Jazz Arts Group Announces 2012-13 PBJ & Jazz Family Concert Series

Source: Scott Vezdos
October 8, 2012

Columbus, OH - The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is pleased to return to the Lincoln Theatre for the 2012-2013 season of the Jazz Academy's PBJ & Jazz concert series presented by Bob Evans Farms. Due to popular demand, this year's season will continue to include two performance times per concert, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. The season kicks off on Saturday, October 13 featuring jazz “daddies" in a “PBJ & Jazz Jam" led by Jon Eshelman ...

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Sinquefield Charitable Foundation Commissions New Works From Mizzou Composers To Celebrate The Sheldon's 100th Anniversary

Source: Dean Minderman
October 3, 2012

Columbia, MO: The famous German composer Robert Schumann once said, “In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of." While that may be true, getting that new composition performed and heard once it is written can be another matter entirely. For an emerging composer writing music inspired by the classical tradition, performance opportunities can be few and far between. To give some of those composers a chance to be heard, ...

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Augusta Read Thomas, Daniel Kellogg Named As Guest Composers For The 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival

Source: Dean Minderman
October 1, 2012

Columbia, MO – Continuing its emerging tradition of pairing an acknowledged master and a rising star, the Mizzou New Music Initiative has named Augusta Read Thomas and Daniel Kellogg as guest composers for the 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival (MICF). Formerly known as the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, the MICF will be held from Monday, July 22, 2013 through Saturday, July 27 on the campus of the University of Missouri. As in the past, the 2013 Festival will feature ...

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Berkleemusic Joins Coursera Education Revolution with Free Online Music Classes

Source: HypeBot
September 21, 2012

Higher education is experiencing disruptive changes that are still very much in the early stages. Berkleemusic, the online division of Berklee College of Music, is joining in that disruption by offering a group of free music classes on Coursera, a company that also offers classes from such leading institutions as Columbia, Johns Hopkins and UC Berkeley. Though Berkleemusic's courses are introductory and do not beging till Spring of 2013, they will offer musicians a chance to check out something new ...

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inDepth Jazz Clinic And Concert Celebrate Brazilian Samba in Rockville, Maryland

Source: The Phillips Agency
September 17, 2012

In celebration of America’s 50-year love affair with Brazilian jazz, five venerated jazz artists will teach and perform Samba music in the first inDepth Jazz Clinic and Concert of the season. The eight-year-old series near the nation’s capital serves gifted amateur and semi- pro musicians and jazz lovers with half a dozen programs annually. Last season’s Brazilian workshop was the most successful in the history of the series; many musicians and fans had to be turned away. This year’s super-charged ...

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Berklee Celebrate Its New Campus In Valencia, Spain, With The Launch Of The College’s First-ever Master’s Degrees

Source: Berklee Media Relations
September 13, 2012

On September 17, Berklee College of Music president Roger H. Brown will give the welcome speech at the college's new campus in Valencia, Spain, to launch Berklee’s first-ever graduate programs, offering degrees in Contemporary Performance; Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games; and Global Entertainment and Music Business. This event represents the successful culmination of an ambitious and challenging project, and confirms the commitment the college made to launch a new international campus with its own curriculum. The master’s programs ...

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Saxophonist Sam Newsome and Pianist Ethan Iverson Perform in the Sound It out Series at Greenwich House Music School, September 15, 2012.

Source: Two for the Show Media
September 5, 2012

Sam Newsome will play an intro set of incantatory solo soprano saxophone - including famous Coltrane and Ellington pieces - before being joined by Iverson, pianist of The Bad Plus, for a full duo performance. The Sound It Out series presents saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Ethan Iverson in performance at the Greenwich House Music School in New York City's West Village at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 15, 2012. Newsome is renowned for his incantatory solo soprano saxophone performances, ...

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Improvisation For Piano: "New Age" Method Gets Adults Playing Right Away

Source: Edward Weiss
August 20, 2012

The piano. So many people would love to play this amazing instrument. But for most, it’s just a faraway dream. But according to pianist and online piano teacher Edward Weiss, this dream may be closer than you think. Weiss has come up with a ‘New Age’ method that promises to show even a complete beginner how to create their own unique improvisations for piano. Here's what this “new age" piano teacher has to say about it: “I show students how ...

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