Billy Strayhorn helped create the world known as “Ellingtonia,” but his music was a world of its own. “Strayhorn in the Foreground” featured his suave, subtle, and surprisingly modern compositions for jazz orchestra. The concert was presented by Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies at Miller Theatre on Thursday, November 21, 2013.
As jazz continues to migrate across national, ethnic, and cultural borders, jazz festivals function as physical and symbolic spaces where the dynamics between the vernacular and the cosmopolitan are put into play. In this talk, Dr. Anne C. Dvinge of the University of Copenhagen takes a closer look at jazz festivals, and specifically the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, as manifestations of this double sense of the cosmopolitan and the vernacular, where jazz enters into dialogue with local music cultures.
This excerpt concludes the discussion of the CMS archives. Click here for Part I.
This panel discusses the CMS archives and the preservation efforts now underway that will make its recordings, texts, scores, courses and other materials available to the public.
The continuation of the panel on the Creative Music Studio's embrace of non-Western, non-European instruments. Click here for Part I.
This panel explores the Creative Music Studio's embrace of non-Western, non-European instruments and practices with alumni who are important vectors of this pan-cultural synthesis. In the same spirit, it questions and deconstructs the idea of "world music," citing Ravi Shankar's aphoristic comment that "everybody lives in the world."
Moderator Adam Rudolph is a composer, improviser and percussionist whose Organic Orchestra realizes a music notation and conducting system he developed.
This is the second part of a panel moderated by Karl Berger discussing the philosophy of music education at CMS. Participants are Marilyn Crispell, James Emery, Oliver Lake, and Ingrid Sertso. Click here for Part I.
This panel discusses the philosophy of music education at CMS. As moderator Karl Berger puts it, the program gives students "ways to deepen the experience of playing and listening to music, focusing on attention, expression, and communication." The panelists are composer Marilyn Crispell, guitarist and composer James Emery, saxophonist and composer Oliver Lake, and vocalist and CMS founder Ingrid Sertso. Click here for Part II.
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The continuation of the panel featuring Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Ilene Marder, Don Davis, and Howard Mandel. Click here for Part I.
