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Celebrate the anniversary of Mae Arnette, one of Boston's premiere singers, in the Taurus Club at 888 Street in Boston. Drummer Alan Dawson and pianist Sabby Lewis will perform in a jam session afterwards, at 8. Buffet dinner from 6-8 p.m., entertainment until 11, and dancing from 11 p.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance, and $35 at the door. Telephone 442-2622, 266-1002, or 427-0200. Film...
...students on the Duke campus beginning in 1991, when the university plans to open the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in Durham, N.C. While 58 other schools already have jazz majors, the four-year institute will be the nation's first conservatory expressly dedicated to jazz. Named after the pianist-composer who died in 1982, it will serve 200 students chosen through competitions and interviews. Jazz Greats Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis have expressed interest in teaching there; Trumpeter Clark Terry will chair the academic council...
Under plans announced last week, the conservatory will have its own library, recording studio and recital hall. "Information about this art form has been scattered; we would like to bring it all together," says Thelonious Monk Jr., the pianist's son, who has helped raise $12 million for the facilities. Duke President H. Keith Brodie, a jazz buff, was delighted to beat out Washington and Los Angeles for the site of the conservatory. Says he: "The first record I ever bought was a Thelonious Monk album...
...observers--together for a single event. The "Sea Monkeys Sideshow" turned the whole Carpenter Center into a piece of performance art for an evening. Actors, storytellers, musicians, directors, dancers, painters and intrigued onlookers participated in the variety of peripatetic performances. In one room, you could watch a pianist, a trumpeter, a dancer and a muralist all creating and improvising at once--and you could even pick up a paintbrush and join in yourself, on the adjacent wall. Even the ideas that didn't work worked--being in the spirit of creation and daring to try something new was all that...
...vivacious twelve-year-old who reads John Updike, finds Nancy Drew too predictable, and recites T.S. Eliot's poem The Journey of the Magi in a clipped British accent. A pianist, she talks enthusiastically about her favorite composers, Bach and Mozart. With her charm, dancing eyes and radiant smile, Vera Zieman should be one of the most popular girls in her Moscow school...