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2020-04-02 22:50:00
John Malveaux: NYTimes.com: Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85
Ellis Marsalis with three of his sons, Delfeayo, left, Branford and Wynton, in 2011. Credit...Chad Batka for The New York TimesJohn Malveaux brings this article to our attention: The New York Times The father of Wynton and Branford Marsalis and a prominent performer and educator, he succumbed to complications of the coronavirus.By Giovanni Russonello and Michael Levenson Published April 1, 2020 Updated April 2, 2020, 4:47 p.m. ET This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Ellis Marsalis, a pianist and educator who became the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz while putting four musician sons on a path to prominent careers, died on Wednesday in New Orleans. He was 85. The cause was complications of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, his son Branford said […]
2018-07-22 01:05:00
OperaCreole: WWNO: Edmond Dédé: The Classical Composer You've Never Heard Of
Edmond Dédé The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Mr. Al Rose OperaCreole forwards this transcript: New Orleans Public Radio Jul 19, 2018 By Laine Kaplan-Levenson I crashed an opera rehearsal the other day. A large group of vocalists, young, old, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, all the genders, belted out in long rows surrounding a piano. They were preparing for the 75th anniversary celebration of the New Orleans Opera Association. I was there to talk to a mother-daughter opera combo: Givonna Joseph and Aria Mason. “When she was little people would always say ‘Are you going to sing like your mom?’” Givonna told me. “It would drive her crazy. ‘Im so tired, no, I’m not gonna sing… And I said, ‘you’re going to be […]
2018-07-12 23:37:00
OperaCréole Founders: WWNO Radio TriPod, and Bastille Day Event, New Orleans
[…] be a two part series focused on Opera in New Orleans from pre-Civil War to Reconstruction. Givonna Joseph, and Aria Mason cover the 19th Century contributions of African Americans to New Orleans-The First City of Opera, as musicians, composers and conductors. And we also discussed their fight for integrated theater seating, and their ultimate exclusion from opera and classical music at the dawn of Jim Crow. Part I Laine Kaplan-Levenson interviews OperaCréole founders Aria Mason, and Givonna Joseph, she also speaks with New Orleans Opera historian Jack Belsom and author John Baron. Part II Givonna and Aria's interview continues. Ms. Kaplan-Levenson also interviews Harold and Wesley Dede, great-great nephews of Edmond Dédé (1827-1901), 19th Century New Orleans free composer of color. Parts I and II can be heard together onlinehttp://wwno.org/programs/tripod-new-orleans-300 and also on iTunes Podcast----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday is Bastille Day! […]
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2017-06-08 16:05:36
A Brief Seven-Year History Of 'Dear Evan Hansen'
"What follows are some highlights, beginning with the first private airing of the efforts of Pasek, Paul, Levenson and all their collaborators. It's a shorthand mapping of Dear Evan Hansen's march to critical and popular acclaim and its position as one of the more remarkable shows in recent musical-theater history."
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