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Festival

Icons Of Philadelphia Jazz And Rising Stars Of Classical Music Featured In Spring Music Series At Woodmere Art Museum

Source: Canary Promotion + Design
April 21, 2012

PHILADELPHIA, PA: Woodmere Art Museum continues to attract exceptional musical talents in historic Chestnut Hill with their popular, on-going Friday Night Jazz and Classic Sundays series. Each weekend in April, May and June, guests will have the opportunity to enjoy rotating exhibitions while listening to the music of Philadelphia jazz legends and discovering the work of a new class of rising stars in the classical music scene. This season Music at Woodmere, which launched last spring, will introduce audiences to ...

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Performance / Tour

Three World Premieres - Chamberworks At Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open on April 21

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
April 21, 2012

CONNECTION WORKS PRESENTS The 5th SEASON OF BROOKLYN JAZZ WIDE OPEN @ The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Concert Hall The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is located at 58 Seventh Ave (at Lincoln Place), Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, Tel 718 622 3300, reduced admission! NEXT Concert of the 2011-2012 season Saturday, April 21 @ 8:00 PM (two sets) Michael McGinnis - clarinet, bass clarinet Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon David Smith - trumpet tba ...

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Event

Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival: Harlem Stage Presents Celebrating Cecil, May 8 & 9

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
April 21, 2012

2012 Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Presents Tribute to Club Harlem: Celebrating Cecil May 8-9, 8:00 and 10:00 pm, at Harlem Stage Gatehouse Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Runs May 7-13, 2012 All Tickets Just $10 or Free! The prestige of the past. The pulse of the present. HARLEM, USA, April 19, 2012 – The inaugural Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival debuted in 2011, and paid tribute to the legendary clubs and venues of the Harlem Renaissance. For its stunning encore, ...

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Education

30th ISME World Conference

Source: Peter Douskalis
April 21, 2012

Peter Douskalis will be presenting a paper at the 30th International Society for Music Education World Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece on July 15-30th 2012. The paper is an academic philosophical research article on the development of multicultural curriculum for music education programs around the globe. It seeks to provide music educators with a diverse approach and guidelines to creating an encompassing multicultural curriculum for their music classrooms. The paper will also be published in the conference proceedings journal. ISME is ...

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Recording

Juliette Gray Releases "Lush Life With A Twist" and "Lush Life Jazzed Up"

Source: Juliette Gray
April 21, 2012

Lush Life With a Twist and Lush Life Straight Up - is a voice-over/spoken word homage to the Billy Strayhorn's provocative and poignant composition. A collaboration between voice over actor Juliette Gray, prolific jazz pianist and composer Bill Cunliffe and clarinetist/saxophonist Gary Gray. Music arranged and produced by Bill Cunliffe; performance directed and produced by Cedering Fox. This is the first in a series of spoken word+music to some of the masterpieces of the Great American Songbook—illustrating how spoken word ...

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Performance / Tour

Beat Kaestli at Zinc Bar (NYC) on April 23rd

Source: Beat Kaestli
April 21, 2012

After returning from a tour in Europe and Brazil, vocalist Beat Kaestli is happy to bring his unique blend of Jazz, R&B, European and Latin styles to Zinc Bar NYC on Monday, April 23rd @ 7:30PM. The show is featuring a stellar band with Ben Stivers - piano, Matt Wigton - bass and Fred Kennedy - drums. This is Beat Kaestli's only show in New York in spring 2012!! Monday, 23. April 2012 Zinc Bar, New York 7:30PM ...

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Recording

IZZ Set To Release New Album On May 1st Featuring Guest Appearance By Gentle Giant Guitarist Gary Green

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
April 21, 2012

New York, NY: IZZ’s new studio album, Crush of Night, scheduled for release on May 1st, serves as Part 2 of a 3-part series of thematic albums that began with The Darkened Room (TDR) in 2009. Featuring a guest appearance by Gary Green of Gentle Giant on Words and Miracles (Electric guitar, Guitar solos and backing vocals) and The Crush of Night (guitar solo), IZZ brings their characteristic sense of melody to the fore on this album, while at the ...

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Obituary

Levon Helm: 1940-2012

Source: C. Michael Bailey
April 20, 2012

By C. Michael Bailey The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. —William Faulkner It might be a hard sell to claim that Levon Helm was the voice of The Band, considering he was part of a trio of the most distinctive voices in rock music during what some call ...

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