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02/12/2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/arts/music/chick-corea-dead.html
Chick Corea, Jazz Keyboardist and Innovator, Dies at 79 When jazz and rock fused in the 1970s, he was at the forefront of the movement. But he never abandoned his love of the acoustic piano.
01/08/2021
SFJAZZ.org Founded by Randall Kline in 1983 under the name Jazz in the City, SFJAZZ has become the world’s leading cultural institution devoted to jazz and related forms of music, presenting over 300 performances each year at the new SFJAZZ Center and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
11/21/2020
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/science-of-music
What We Can Learn From the Science of Music Listen up!
10/18/2019
90-year-old completes Master's degree on music and dementia Inspired by the effects of music in nursing homes, Lorna Prendergast embarked on a Masters of Ageing on music and dementia. Here is some of what she learned.
10/09/2019
Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn't want to go; maybe you didn't like practicing. But we have some bad news: They were right. It turns…
10/09/2019
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/podcast-how-music-can-change-our-mood
Podcast: How Music Can Change Our Mood A Broadway songwriter and a marketing professor discuss the connection between our favorite tunes and how they make us feel.
10/08/2019
Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Awadagin Pratt performed J. S. Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor at the White House in 2009: https://bit.ly/ZumhtU.
Hear him on the Skyline Piano Artist Series this season: https://bit.ly/2m97Egj
10/01/2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxh-VTqNK0c
Jessye Norman "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" Ruckert Lieder 5/5 This is the fifth of Mahler's five Ruckert-Lieder, recorded at Avery Fisher Hall with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic. Performed at the opening of ...
10/01/2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5jZe32DEYI
Jessye Norman - Amazing Grace (Sidney Poitier Tribute) - 1995 Kennedy Center Honors American opera singer and recitalist Jessye Norman delivers a powerful performance of "Amazing Grace" as a tribute to Bahamian-American actor and film direct...
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