Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Assistant Professor, Graeme Boone, in the second semester. Several graduate students are pursuing doctoral dissertations in areas of ethnomusicology ranging from music of Oceania, to ancient Chinese music, to Afro-American songs of the 19th century. Undergraduate courses in Chinese music, American folk and popular genres, and Jazz will also continue to be offered. All of these courses are supported by the steadily expanding collections of the Archive of World Music and the Seeger Room of the Music Library...
...building and testing of the first atom bomb is one of the century's great stories. So it takes a bit of nerve to turn this modern Promethean tale into a popular thriller, especially if the hero is a Pueblo Indian Army sergeant who is also a prizefighter, jazz pianist and catnip to the ladies...
Music major Carol Millard '86 says she likes making electronic music because it offers more room for individual creation than other musical fields. "Jazz is too structured," she says. Tcherepnin echoes Millard's attitude. "Electronic music is one of the last remaining frontiers. Fifteen years of violin training in 20 years of life provides no advantage in this medium over pure curiosity...
Although Annenberg has worked for the WHRB jazz department for three years, he said that Weiner and most of the other students involved with the show are not affiliated with WHRB...
...Fosse won the Emmy for directing Liza Minnelli's special Liza with a "Z," the Tony for directing Pippin and the Oscar for directing Cabaret. Since that still unmatched feat, he has tested his writing talents in film, with the semiautobiographical All That Jazz, and onstage, with the bookless Dancin' and now the book-heavy Big Deal. Broadway should admire all that daring. Big Deal is not his best work, but it is a powerful reminder that Fosse set the standards others still strive...