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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...
...arts education programs gradually dying out, it's so important to have people like Wynton, advocates for the arts, stressing their central place in society," said Ashley McCants '02, a Kuumba singer and audience member, of Marsalis' mission...
...music curriculum at P.S. 58 and hundreds of other schools. Who would be more enthusiastic about giving kids a trumpet to toot or a guitar to strum than those whose talent had been nurtured and who had got air time on Sykes' channel? Under Sykes' Save the Music campaign, Wynton Marsalis, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and Gloria Estefan, among many others, eagerly raised money to purchase instruments--and that was before all the buzz about what music can do for the soul and the psyche. By the time school bells ring this September, kids in more than 500 schools...
...While at Berklee in 1985, he met the group of musicians who became the foundation of the Either/Orchestra and the band quickly became known for eccentric material and quirky performances. By the 1980s, most jazz had become neo-conservative and stuffy, but the Either/Orchestra had humor and wit. While Wynton Marsalis was getting started at Lincoln Center and oiling up hits from the 1920s, Gershon and company were playing at a self-proclaimed "Bill Walton" night at a local bar (which Celtics star Bill Walton once actually attended) and soaring through versions of King Crimson tunes and souped-up takes...
...Detroit-born Carter, who studied classical music as a child but switched to jazz in high school, has played backup for some of the top performers in jazz, including Wynton Marsalis. In this album she steps into the spotlight. Her sound has echoes of the jazz-violin greats of the past: the melodic instincts of Stephane Grappelli, the sweet swing of Stuff Smith...