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2021-07-12 18:48:00
Bienen School of Music launches ‘Black Composer Showcase’ series with 'Chicago Connections' featuring Margaret Bonds and Florence Price
[…] include Drew Davies and Ivy Wilson, associate professor of English at Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. The final video in the series, “Chamber Music Highlights,” includes selections performed by Bienen instrumental students: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet, Jonathan Bailey Holland’s “Mobius,” Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s “Lamentations” and William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano. Speakers include musicologist and recent alumna Amanda Stein (’21 PhD) and current doctoral composition student Ben Zucker. Performers Olivia Hamilton, a master’s clarinet student, and Nicholas Abrahams, a Bienen-Weinberg dual-degree violin student, also contribute to the video commentary. Videos two and three will be released in the coming weeks in the Davee Media Library.
2020-09-25 00:27:00
THE TOWN HALL announces new artistic director MELAY ARAYA and free digital programming
Melay Araya Sept. 21, 2020 "... The Town Hall will strive to provide audiences with art, entertainment, education and inspiration." www.TheTownHall.org The Town Hall Foundation's Board of Trustees and Lawrence Zucker, Executive Director, are pleased to announce that Melay Araya has been named the new Artistic Director of the renowned performing arts venue. Since 2018, Araya worked at Town Hall in the joint role of Associate Artistic Director and Archivist. She is the host of CENTURY OF STORY AND SONG, Town Hall's digital series featuring the highlights of its remarkable history. Melay said, "I feel honored to build on The Town Hall's robust and inspiring legacy of being the 'Hall for All.' In the face of the pandemic, the protests, the constant political, environmental and social change all over the world, The Town Hall will strive to provide […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-07-31 21:02:40
Laura Zucker Exit Interview: Three Biggest Challenges For The Arts
Laura Zucker is stepping down after 25 years leading the LA County Arts Commision. Three of the biggest issues facing arts administrators? "Ensuring all students everywhere receive a quality arts education. It’s a social justice issue. Valuing diverse cultural traditions equally, really equally, in terms of opportunity and resources. The democratization of culture: creating opportunities for the arts to be accessed by everyone, like breathing."
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-02-02 16:30:22
The Makers Of ‘Airplane!’ Tell Where They Found All Those Laugh Lines
A Q&A with Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers. who insist that they lifted many lines – including “Surely you can’t be serious” and “We need somebody who can not only fly this plane, but who didn’t have fish for dinner” – directly from old dramatic movies.
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