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Lectures tagged "jazz"

John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison

February 8, 2010

Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting. At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing.

History of Experimental Video in Boston

January 31, 2010

Otto Piene, sky artist and former director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, and Fred Barzyk, former director of WGBH's New Television Workshop, talk about Boston's influential role in the creation of the video art medium in the late 1960s.

Henry Butler: Inclusive By Design Concert (Part 2)

Henry Butler, a New Orleans piano legend who has been blind since birth, along with visual artist, Nancy Ostrovsky, demonstrate principles of Universal Design in the performing arts.

Henry Butler: Inclusive By Design Concert (Part 1)

Henry Butler, a New Orleans piano legend who has been blind since birth, along with visual artist, Nancy Ostrovsky, demonstrate principles of Universal Design in the performing arts.

The Nature of a Jazz Masterpiece

Dwight D. Andrews

February 21, 2009

Dwight Andrews, noted musician and scholar, discusses what makes a jazz masterpiece. In every discipline of western art, certain works have been deemed emblematic of an era, a style, or an artist. How is a canon established within the art world? What is a jazz masterpiece? Is there a jazz canon?

From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond

Emmett G. Price III

Emmett Price III examines the connections between jazz, hip hop, and other music forms. Price, a musician and educator, discusses the importance of music as a means of communication and its capacity to bridge generational and other interpersonal gaps.

Boston IDEAS 2005: Deborah Henson-Conant

Deborah Henson-Conant

October 7, 2005

Henson-Conant discusses how she builds new worlds from sound and stories and is revolutionizing the way the world sees this ancient instrument with her cross-genre jazz-pop-comedy-folk-flamenco- Celtic music.

Jazz Age: From New Orleans to Chicago

January 29, 2004

Eric Jackson, who has been heard nightly on WGBH 89.7 FM for more than 20 years, discusses the rise of this beloved and uniquely American music form in the wild decade of the 1920's. Jackson, host of WGBH's Eric in the Evening, has been called the dean of Boston jazz radio.