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...Adams says of his win. He adds that the award had lost much of its prestige as it was primarily given out to “academic composers” who wrote music notated for conventional orchestrations, mostly college professors.Adams cites the fact that the Pulitzers denied Duke Ellington the award for Music as grounds for how narrow the Pulitzer Committee is in awarding the prize.RETURNING CHAMPIONNow much acclaimed, Adams will return to a much tamer campus than that of his college days to accept the Harvard Arts Medal. In addition to delivering a lecture on his life?...
Joining the ranks of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk, nine-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri became Harvard’s latest artist in residence this week, continuing the Office of the Arts’ (OFA) year-long project, The Afro-Cuban Connection. “It’s been a tremendous honor. I had been treated with the highest degree of consideration, working with the students and [Director of Bands] Tom Everett, who is absolutely wonderful, and everyone who is involved in the preparation for the concert—and I appreciate that in my heart...
...hisname does not sound familiar, that's just how maverick clarinetist Tony Scott wanted it. Among the loudest horn blowers in jazz and a venerated sideman for greats like Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, he was one of the rare masters of bebop--a jaunty sound previously deemed incompatible with the clarinet's soft tones. The arranger and composer also branched out to embrace sounds from countries like Japan and Senegal, helping launch the genre now known as world music. In doing so, he skirted classification--and high-voltage celebrity. "Without experimenters," he said, "jazz would die a lingering...
DIED. Bobby Rosengarden, 82, session drummer for artists from Duke Ellington to Harry Belafonte who became better known in the late 1960s as the musical smart aleck and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show; in Sarasota, Fla. Rosengarden perfected the art of the witty, and sometimes risqu, "walk-on" song to accompany guests. Of Rosengarden's choice of tunes--Hello Dolly for Salvador Dal, There'll Be Some Changes Made for transsexual Jan Morris--Cavett later said, "Luckily, the censor was dumber about music than...
...exception to the forgettable latter portion of the Ellington suites comes with a pared-down trio version of “The Single Petal of a Rose.” On this, one of Ellington’s most beautiful compositions, Harris delicately draws out the richness of his instrument above warmly bowed bass and cello. His gentle touch proves beyond any doubt his astounding abilities as an instrumentalist. On Harris’s own “Gardner Meditations” suite, the group attempts a return to their early form, but never quite gets there: a few moments...