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USC Adds Pop Music Program

October 22, 2008

CLASS IN SESSION: The Thornton School of Music bucks ivory tower convention with a program for rock, R & B and more. USC's Thornton School of Music will make room starting next year for singers and instrumentalists who play pop music, breaking a long-standing tradition in higher education that requires students to dedicate themselves either to ...

Correspondence and a Clip: A Fifth More Perfect...

October 22, 2008

Economy Has You Stressed Out? Try Music Therapy!

October 20, 2008

Its a daily assault of panic, crisis and upheavals being thrown at us practically 24/7. Listen to the radio, and its gloom and doom. Turn on the TV, and every talking head has another scenario of calamity. Pick up the newspaper, and the headlines are practically screaming disaster. Its enough to make you wish for some ...

Northwestern Jazzes up Its Faculty

October 17, 2008

Remember that famous scene in “Citizen Kane," in which the title character decides he wants to have an all-star newspaper staff—and hires one, en masse? The musical equivalent unfolded Monday night at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, where Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music unveiled its all-star jazz faculty—newly hired, en masse. Suddenly, Northwestern's jazz department, which never ...

New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Londonderry Aire Reharmonized

October 14, 2008

Londonderry Aire This old irish folk tune (aka Danny Boy) is the perfect choice for reharmonization. When it's familiar diatonic melody is set against the highly chromatic harmonic treatment given here, the tune takes on a new life as a true jazz piece. Watch this lesson to see how JazzPianoOnline.com contributor Steve Anderson uses a range ...

Fire and Ice in American Culture

October 13, 2008

ESSAY Politics highlight a faceoff of cool and hot in the United States' state of mind. Forget about red state versus blue state, Prius versus Hummer, Wall Street versus Main Street or whatever other pop culture yardstick we've been using to measure the state of the nation recently. The real choice facing Americans this ...

San Francisco State University Announces Second Annual Generations Jazz Program International Competition and Fellowship for Emerging Jazz Combos

October 9, 2008

The International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University invites up-and-coming jazz combos in all countries to enter its second annual Generations Jazz Program International Competition and Fellowship for Emerging Young Combos. The winning combo will earn a year-long fellowship, with stipend, at San Francisco State University studying with the all-star Generations Band, including ...

Health and Financial Fitness Fair Will Focus on Jazz Musicians

October 8, 2008

What’s the best way for a jazz musician to obtain health insurance? And how should musicians best invest and save their money in this economy? On Saturday, the first Coda Jazz Fund Health and Financial Fitness Fair will attempt to provide answers to those and other questions. Since the Coda Jazz Fund was formed in 2001, ...

2009 Residency Season at the Artists Enclave at I-Park

October 6, 2008

Application Deadline: January 5, 2009 (postmark date) I-Park announces its ninth season hosting The Artists Enclave. Artists residencies, self-directed/project oriented, will be offered from May through November 2009, with possible off-season sessions in April and December. Most sessions are four weeks in duration. Residencies will be offered to visual (including digital) artists, music composers, environmental artists, ...

Bill Wright's Guitar Studio News

October 6, 2008

Bill Wright's Guitar Studio located in Sparta NJ announces the recent addition of several instruments to their lineup, which now includes Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, Drums, Piano, Vocals, Ukulele, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass and also Music recording classes. In order to meet growing demand they have added an additional lesson ...