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Musicians Guide to Making Small Talk
Make Small Talk It's the junk food of conversation: quick, sugary, sickening in excess—and unavoidable. Thomas Farley, editor of etiquette guide Modern Manners, has these tips. Contents 1 Initiate 2 Think ahead 3 Three topics max 4 Close out Initiate Open with a wry observation phrased ...
College's Lennon Center Expanding Its Offerings
Martin Cohen is chairman of the John Lennon Center for Music and Technology at Five Towns College. IT would be tough to find a more intense concentration of fans, scholars and interpreters of the work of John Lennon than the one at Five Towns College here. In 2005, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow, came to the college ...
Westchester Jazz Orchestra Conducts Clinic at New Rochelle High School
Westchester, NY The Westchester Jazz Orchestra is a world-class band well-known for their extraordinary concerts. This exceptional performing group also conducts educational workshops and is running a two-day clinic with jazz students from New Rochelle High School that began yesterday. Mike Holober, WJOs Artistic Director, is leading the workshops. One of the most important experiences a ...
Lake Tahoe Music Camp for Young Musicians
The University of Nevada, Reno's 53rd annual Lake Tahoe Music Camp invites student musicians ranging from middle school through high school to participate in an incredible week of music-making and fun in the beautiful setting of Lake Tahoe. Held July 26-Aug. 1, 2009, at the Nevada State 4-H Camp in Stateline, Nev., the overnight camp gives ...
Gino Robair Presenting Free Workshop on Friday, March 6
While he's town to perform his improv opera “I, Norton" on Saturday night at St. Louis Community College - Forest Park, percussionist Gino Robair (pictured) also will lead a free workshop at the college from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 6.The workshop, like Saturday's concert, will take place in the theater ...
Summer Jazz Workshop 2009 in Amsterdam!
The Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Manhattan School of Music present: Summer Jazz Workshop 2009 co-hosted by Manhattan School of Music July 6 - 10, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Study jazz in Amsterdam this summer! You now have the opportunity to study jazz in an outstanding international musical atmosphere. The Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Manhattan School ...
Join Tisja 2009, the Ultimate Jazz Learning Experience This Summer in Taipei!
One of the premier summer jazz education programs in Asia, the annual Taipei International Summer Jazz Academy is planning for its 6th year and larger scale, recruiting even higher-level jazz sensations from all over Asia to participate, and had helped many talented local jazz musicians to develop more on their musical styles and musicianship. Learn with ...
Painted Bride Art Center and John Hollenbeck Collaborate on Big Ears Residency Program
Painted Bride Art Center proudly presents Big Ears, an ambitious residency program that brings together New York-based drummer/composer John Hollenbeck with a dozen Philadelphia jazz musicians. A call to artists, followed by a rigorous selection process, has yielded a group of local artists that transects age, gender, ethnicity, and musical heritage. The program concludes on March ...
Photographer Frank Kuchirchuk Donates Rare 1950s Jazz Photographs to Oberlin
Images of Legends Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Stan Getz and More Taken at Famed Lindsay's Sky Bar in Cleveland OBERLIN, OHIO -- Frank Kuchirchuk, a retired photographer who took live performance photographs of some of the greatest jazz artists during the height of their careers, has donated his entire collection of jazz ...
