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...enthusiastic audience was offered three sides of world famous musician Wynton Marsalis--lecturer, performer and educator--at "About Music," an event held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Education Forum on Saturday in the Science Center...
Marsalis is a master of many trades--an award-winning musician, composer and public television personality...
...gave each young musician a brief lesson, stressing each instrument's unique aspects and concluded with a discussion of communication and democracy in jazz...
Schuller originally played the flute, but switched to the French horn at age 14. Two years later he made his debut when the New York Philharmonic hired him as an extra horn player in the legendary premiere of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. The precocious musician was then hired at the tender age of 17 as principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony. The orchestra's music director, Eugene Goossens, was a major influence. "He was a great mentor, and he supported my composing. He arranged for my professional debut as a composer, when he arranged...
...also had a song he wanted them to record. Dogs, written by Trinidadian musician Anslem Douglas and an island hit two years ago, is a spirited jape about women so disgusted by the antics of the men at a party that they ask, "Who let the dogs out?" Greenberg couldn't get the hook out of his head. He was sure the Men could make...