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wild Up at Schoenberg Hall

Courtesy of Heather Sikora | Posted on July 19, 2012

Where

Schoenberg Hall
445 Charles E. Young Drive East
Los Angeles, CA
Map
310-825-2101

When

Sat, August 11, 2012
8:00 PM

Musicians

About

The August 11 concert is the culminating performance of the second Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI), presented by The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University (CJS), in cooperation with The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and EarShot, the National Orchestra Composition Discovery Network

The program features music by JCOI mentor composers and includes George Lewis’s The Will to Adorn which takes its title from a 1934 essay by Zora Neale Hurston, “Characteristics of Negro Expression;” Anne LeBaron’s Telluris Theoria Sacra (Sacred Theory of the Earth) depicting the chaos that preceded creation and inspired by Thomas Burnet’s 1681 text of the same title; Nicole Mitchell’s “dense, dramatic, and daring” (JazzHouse.org) Before and After (Nuclear War); Alvin Singleton’s Almost a Boogie for string trio, bassoon, horn, and piano; and Derek Bermel’s Three Rivers which combines both notated and improvised music...

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