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2024-04-08 03:30:00
A Jazz Musician on Classical Music and Jazz
[…] masterpiece.” Aha! That’s a good title, I've got to use it…Unfortunately, many read the title and did not consider the essay. If I had the chance to publish again, would I change the title? I don't know. FR: How did your jazz interest start?EI: My parents weren't musicians or music fans. Music came in through the TV set. Early things I liked weren’t really jazz, but they were jazz-adjacent. The James Bond movies, what was that music by John Barry? The Pink Panther cartoon, what was that music by Henry Mancini? Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas music. Stuff on Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. When I was ten years old or so, I started on a journey to find my first jazz records.FR: Are you able to pinpoint what you liked? Was it the chords, the texture of the music, the rhythms?EI: I don’t know exactly, but I can say this: Jazz is equally dependent […]
2024-04-06 18:33:23
John Barry. (Source: BBC) John Barry was one of the few guests who appeared twice on the celebrated
All the conducting master class
2024-04-02 16:47:41
New music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä at the Mandarin Oriental New York on March 20 in New York.(Barry Williams/for Chicago Tribune) By HANNAH EDGAR PUBLISHED: April 2, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. | UPDATED: April 2, 2024 at 11:38 a.m. On Tuesday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced its next music director, the Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-31 16:37:32
“What’s Going On” at Trinity
[…] the social situation here at home. I realized that I had to put my own fantasies behind me if I wanted to write songs that would reach the souls of people. I wanted them to take a look at what was happening in the world. In 1970, he returned to Motown to record the title song, What’s Going On?, which opens an album that has been likened to a classical “song cycle.” Motown executive Barry Gordy, Jr. was skeptical about Gaye’s innovative departure from his customary successful style, calling these new songs too “jazzy” and old-fashioned. But on its release, the album gained both meteoric commercial and critical acclaim. As one reviewer wrote, “There are very few performers who could carry a project like this off. I've always admired Marvin Gaye, but I didn't expect that he would be one of them. Guess I seriously underestimated him. It won't […]
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