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New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department Presents The Music Of Luciana Souza On Wednesday, December 4
Grammy Winner Souza Will Perform with Each of Three Student Groups Public Residency Events Include Introduction to Brazilian Music on December 2 and Expanding the Singer's Vocabulary on December 3 “Her music soulfully reflects, wistfully regrets, romantically woos, joyfully celebrates." —Billboard New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department presents The Music of Luciana Souza, a free concert ...
New England Conservatory’s Hankus Netsky Chosen As One Of The Forward 50
50 American Jews who had the greatest impact in 2013 Netsky, Chair of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation Department, cited for being a “mentor (to) generations of Jewish musicians” and “a quiet but powerful force affecting nearly every corner of contemporary Jewish music." Hankus Netsky, chair of New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation program, has been selected for The ...
"A Year Of Jubilee" : 36th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert With The New England Spiritual Ensemble And The John Coltrane Memorial Concert Ensemble -- Nov. 23, 2013
Friends of John Coltrane Memorial Concert presents “A Year of Jubilee: the 36th annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert," with the New England Spiritual Ensemble and the John Coltrane Memorial Concert Ensemble; hosted by Eric Jackson. Saturday, November 23, 2013, 7:30 pm. $32, $27 students/seniors, $40 VIP. Northeastern University, Blackman Theatre, Ell Hall, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, ...
New England Conservatory’s Annual Multi-media Film Noir Extravaganza Features Otto Preminger’s Whirlpool & Laura
Tuesday, November 5 at NEC’s Jordan Hall Curated by Ran Blake and Aaron Hartley Part of NEC’s Music: Truth to Power series of over 30 concerts Pianist/composer/improviser Ran Blake and co-producer/trombonist Aaron Hartley bring an extra dimension to Hallowe'en with specimens of that most haunting genre, film noir. Now an annual tradition in its 9th year, ...
Washington, DC Premiere Of Pulitzer Finalist Trumpeter/Composer Wadada Leo Smith’s Civil Rights Masterpiece Ten Freedom Summers
Full Multi-Media Presentation of Three-Performance Work Friday and Saturday, October 25 & 26 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, D.C. Smith is 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music for Ten Freedom Summers In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Atlas Performing Arts Center presents the Washington, DC premiere of Ten Freedom Summers, ...
New England Conservatory Hosts Legendary Songwriter Elvis Costello Friday, October 25 In Public Talk At Jordan Hall
Costello to Receive Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from NEC New England Conservatory welcomes legendary songwriter Elvis Costello to campus on Friday, October 25, 2013. After a morning of working in the classroom with songwriters enrolled in NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation program, Costello talks about his genre-spanning career in a public forum, moderated by Boston Globe pop ...
Fretless Frailing Brings The Balkans Home on Jeni Jol
For Boston-based musician Tev Stevig, an epiphany occurred when he first heard the fretless guitar. For years, Stevig had explored American music from old time folk music to jazz, as well as the sounds of the Balkans and the Middle East. He wanted to bring together all of his musical passions and with this instrument he ...
Not an Obituary for the Artists Quarter
For nearly four decades, over three locations and one significant hiatus, the Artists Quarter has symbolized the true spirit of jazz—a collaborative, forward-thinking, open community. And like most jazz clubs throughout the country, the AQ has struggled to hold faithful audience in the face of rising costs, declining support to the arts, and dwindling audiences. We ...
Monnette Sudler: Daring To Dream
by Suzanne Cloud
She's not working. She's too sick. And it hurts to the bone that she can't play the way she used to because she has Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) lung disease and is waiting for a lung transplant. Nobody knows what causes this scarring and stiffening of the lung tissue, hence the idiopathic part of the name, ...
Renowned Trumpeter Ralph Alessi And Saxophonist Brian Levy Join New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Faculty
New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department has hired two renowned musicians to join the faculty: jazz trumpeter/composer Ralph Alessi who will teach trumpet and improvisation and jazz saxophonist Brian Levy who will teach both saxophone and music history and musicology. “I’m thrilled that Ralph Alessi has agreed to join our faculty,” said Ken Schaphorst, Chair of ...
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