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Stax Music Academy Summer Program Auditions Held March 13
Calling all highs school musicians and singers! Auditions for the upcoming Stax Music Academy Summer Music Experience will be held Saturday, March 13th from 1-5 p.m. Open to all rising 9th - 12th graders. This year's Summer Music Experience will take place June 1st through June 26th, Monday-Friday, from 9AM to 5PM. The Experience will include ...
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AGENT: a character who resents performers getting 90% of his salary. ARRANGER: a guy who writes to support a drinking habit. BALLET: an art form for people with eating disorders BANDSTAND: the area furthest away from an electrical outlet BIG BAND: nowadays, an aggregation consisting of two musicians. BROADWAY PIT JOB: a prison sentence disguised as ...
Manring, Carrothers, Goldsby for Sligo Jazz Project 2010
Sligo Jazz Project (SJP) announces its 2010 Sligo International Jazz Summer School Faculty. SJP 2010, which takes place in Sligo, Ireland from the 20-25 July, features six days of workshops, masterclasses and concerts. The quality of tuition on offer this year is world class, with some very experienced educators, including electric bass legend Michael Manring, respected ...
Quiescence Music Celebrates 10 Years Online
The year was 2000, the cusp of a new millennium. The Internet was big and about to get a whole lot bigger. And composer-teacher Edward Weiss had an insight: I constantly saw business after business starting up online stores and selling products. But the same technology that could sell books and software could also be used ...
Music is Good for You at Any Age
It may be easier to learn young, but it may be more fun to learn later. “Music is sort of the perfect activity that people can engage in from young to older years," neurologist Gottfried Schlaug says. Let's face it: Many of us looking to sharpen our intellectual edges have already passed the age when becoming ...
School Wants to Ban iPods
One U.S. school official may have inadvertently found the solution to the sales slump in record music. Torrington, CT school superintendent Christopher G. Leone wants to stamp out digital music players at the local high school. Leone recently told the school board he believes iPods likely outnumber the students. “I just don't see the need," Leone ...
Effect of Music on Cognitive Function
Playing an instrument seems to make learning math and foreign languages easier, but researchers arent sure why. Taylor Bredberg is an ardent fan of the indie band Grizzly Bear and the TV series “Lost," is an amateur filmmaker and a doodler of figures that bring to mind Tim Burton's kinetic grostesques. But if those interests make ...
Jazz St. Louis Sets Audition Dates for All-Stars, JazzU
Jazz St. Louis has set the dates for student musicians to audition for next season's JazzU program and for the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars. Auditions for both programs will be held Monday, June 7 and Monday, June 14 at Jazz at the Bistro.To be eligible to audition, applicants must be in middle or high ...
New Berkleemusic Jazz Voice Course Online April 5
Berkleemusic, the online continuing education arm of Berklee College of Music has just announced Jazz Voice, a new online course for the April 5 term. It'll be taught by Jan Shapiro, the chair of the Voice department at Berklee College of Music. She has presented vocal clinics around the country and toured extensively, performing in jazz ...
Student Bands to Perform at Jazz at the Bistro, Black Cat Theatre
Upcoming events at Jazz at the Bistro and the Black Cat Theatre will give St. Louis area jazz fans some opportunities to catch some of our town's up-and-coming student musicians:* The Meramec Jazz Lab Band from St. Louis Community College - Meramec, directed by Bob Boedges, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March ...
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