Institute for Studies in American Music
Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities
at Brooklyn College

In conjunction with
the Conservatory of Music, the American Studies Program, the Women's Center
and the Departments of Africana Studies, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies,
Judaic Studies, and Women's Studies
at Brooklyn College

 

Fall 2002

Music in Polycultural America

 


Bloodlines: Afro-Cuban Jazz and the Chico O'Farrill Legacy

Pianist and arranger Arturo O’Farrill is the head of the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble, and a graduate of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. He is the son of the renowned Afro-Cuban composer and arranger Chico O’Farrill, whose early collaborations with Mario Bauza, Machito, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker helped shape the sound of early Latin jazz in New York City. Arturo can be heard playing and directing the Chico O’Farrill Ensemble on Carambola (Milestone Recordings, 2000) and as a featured piano soloist on Blood Lines (Milestone Recordings, 1999).

Tuesday, October 8, 1:00-2:30 pm, Brooklyn College Student Center
 


Fiddler on the Move: Klezmer Music and Beyond

Mark Slobin is Professor of Music at Wesleyan University and the General Editor of the American Musicspheres series on Oxford University Press. He is author of numerous books on ethnic music in America including Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World (2000), Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate (1989), and Tenement Songs: Popular Music of Jewish Immigrants (1982).

Tuesday, October 15, 1:30-3:00 pm, Brooklyn College Student Center
 


With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovering Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s

Musicologist and pianist Jeff Taylor is Associate Professor of Music at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. He has written extensively on American jazz, and is author of the forthcoming Stompin’ ‘em Down: Black Jazz Pianists in the 1920s (University of California Press).

Monday, November 11, 12:15-1:30 pm, Brooklyn College Student Center
 

 

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