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SR: A lot of jazz people lean toward Post-Romantic Impressionists for classical inspiration. However, you always go farther back, always making a reference to Bach or Beethoven, where others cite Ravel or Debussy.
As a performer, Wynton Marsalis won eight Grammy Awards for his jazz and classical trumpeting skills. As a composer of the jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields, he became the first winner of a Pulitzer Prize for a non-classical composition. As an author, public speaker, public television personality and...
WM: Well, I'm a classical musician also, I've played with many orchestras, so my experience with classical music might be more extensive than a lot of other jazz musicians. Bach's music is one of the great wonders of Western man. Like the Sistine Chapel or the works...
Susan W. Lewis, director of the Core program, said that Gary Anderson would teach the course instead of Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature James L. Kugel.
[footage of Gore giving a speech to a group of seniors in a nursing home. Quiet classical music plays.]