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Salem Jazz and Soul Festival Makes Donation to Local Music Education Programs
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
The Salem Jazz and Soul Festival recently donated $6,000 to music education programs throughout the city of Salem. This is the third straight year the Festival has donated funds to support music education in the community.
Recipients include The Salem High Music Program, $3,000; the Salem Academy, $1,000; the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem, $1,000, and the Starr Access Program, $1,000.
Additionally, the festival set aside $1,000 to bring musicians into Salem schools in 2010.
Plans ...
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A Workshop on the Taubman Approach Set for February 6 at the Univ. of the Arts (Philadelphia)
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Michael Ricci
By Gregory H Martin
Hailed as a major innovation in piano pedagogy, the Taubman Approach is based on the analysis of the subtle motions that lie beneath a virtuoso technique. Many pianists have found that practicing according to the knowledge gained from this analysis has enabled them to play with greater expressive freedom. Many have also found relief from years of chronic injuries related to piano playing. On Saturday, February 6, 2010, the Golandsky Institute and the University of the ...
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New England Conservatory Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Ground-Breaking Jazz Studies Program in NYC March 20 - 27
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
March 20 - 27 NYC Performers include John Medeski, Bernie Worrell, Cecil Taylor, Lake Street Dive, Dominique Eade, Ran Blake, Anton Fig, George Garzone, John McNeil, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, Frank Carlberg, Marty Ehrlich, Jeremy Udden, Noah Preminger, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society & more New England Conservatory continues to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of its first-in-the- nation Jazz Studies program with “Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC," a week of concerts in NYC March 20 - ...
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A New Approach to Harmony with Seechord
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Michael Ricci
By Joe Samuel Chords and the way they fit together have provided some of the greatest challenges to our musical understanding and teaching. It is never long before we become bogged down in Roman numerals, or circles of fifths with numerous arrows. Even the simple chord progressions of the blues can quickly become confusing with inversions, substitutions and turnarounds, so that the amateur musician is left bewildered. SeeChord is trying to change all that. Using simple visual patterns to represent ...
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Danilo Perez Heads Berklee Global Jazz Institute in Boston
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Michael Ricci
Berklee announces the inaugural class for the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, a unique center at the college designed to foster creativity and musicianship through various musical disciplines. World-renowned pianist Danilo Perez serves as its artistic director. Students may pursue a performance degree, diploma, or a two-year certificate through the Institute. BGJI has three main goals: to provide an interdisciplinary music program where students may explore their creativity to the highest level; to explore the social power of music as a ...
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Berkeley's Jazzschool Announces Winter 2010 Classes and Programs
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Terri Hinte Publicity
As the Jazzschool's Winter 2010 Quarter commences on Monday, January 11, students in the Jazzschool Institute's brand-new four-year Bachelor of Music degree program in Jazz Studies return for their Spring 2010 semester on January 19. “We have a wonderful group of instrumentalists and vocalists in our entering class," says Founder and Director Susan Muscarella. “They are passionate about the music and committed to a life in and around jazz, and we are so excited to see these plans come to ...
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Registration Ends Monday Jan. 11th for Berklee Online Courses
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HypeBot
Registration for the popular online classes offered by the Berklee College Of Music ends on Monday January 11th. Judging from the number of Hypebot readers that are taking it, there appears to be great interest in Mike King's new Topspin based Online Music Marketing course.
I'll be teaching The Future Of Music And The Music Business online course for Berklee this semester. This course was inspired by Dave Kusak and Gerd Leonhard's seminal book The Future of Music: ...
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Savannah Music Festival Awarded Jazz.Next Implementation Grant to Support New Jazz Technology Project
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Michael Ricci
Center for New American Media and Heideldesign selected as project partners Savannah, Georgia -- SWING CENTRAL, the nationally acclaimed high school jazz band competition and workshop produced by the Savannah Music Festival (SMF), is the subject of a new media project that utilizes technology to enhance the promotion of jazz music and education. SMF is one of only five recipients of first-round funding from the national Jazz.NEXT initiative, also including NPR, Monterey Jazz Festival, Walker Art Center and the National ...
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