This embodiment study is presented in video from the qualitative analysis of two dancers’ experiences with dancing and writing using Motif Notation as they engaged in the practice of learning a dance ...from video. They interpreted their scores, revised the notation, and performed for accuracy. Through the dancers’ voices, movement, and Motif Notation scores, the study captures dancers’ experiences of how score writing can inform embodiment of an unfamiliar dance style. The dancers shared their self-discovery processes of using intellect to deepen embodiment—and embodiment to deepen intellect. The study with these two dancers revealed that (1) Motif Notation deepens cognitive, social-emotional, and psychomotor learning, and (2) notating while learning movement supports the concept of a dancer as a “researcher,” one who investigates in order to clarify meaning and improve embodiment. This study is IRB approved.
One of the more obscure corners of Benny Goodman's 60-year career in the media was as host of a classical music program for WNEW. At first glance unimportant musically, it did serve to publicize his ..."credentials" as an authority at a time when he was devoting more attention to classical repertoire in studies, rehearsals and concerts--despite the LP release and tremendous commercial success of "The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert." From the 1960s to the 1980s, all that was known about this series was based on two records given by Benny Goodman to his discographer and friend, D. Russell Connor. These discs contained a set of spot ads for the series and voice tracks for programs 1 through 6 of the show. Connor credited this material to the "spring of 1951," likely based on the recording date of one piece of music used in conjunction with one program on the disc.
Beginning during his time at the Conservatory and continuing afterward, he played piano in The Cavaliers, a Toronto dance band for which he created arrangements and transcribed music by Artie Shaw ...and Benny Goodman that he heard on records or the radio. Soon he was engaged as the arranger for a dance band in Kitchener (ON), where his work came to the attention of Byng Whitteker, then an announcer for the local radio station, CKCR, and later a well-known program host on CBC radio. ...he conducted so many pops concerts across the country that he was nicknamed "the Arthur Fiedler of Canada." (Since 2008, that theme music has been used for hockey broadcasts on The Sport Network.) Cable's arrangement of it for piano, commissioned by the Royal Conservatory, is perennially one of the best-selling pieces of sheet music in the country.
The Ebola epidemic has forced many nurses to face the limits of their power to help. But our feelings of empathy can be used to spark more local engagement with the people we help.
Benny Goodman's “Sing Sing Sing” has been used in a number of films since its first recording. Examining these filmic uses reveals the manner in which period music accumulates meanings. Furthermore, ...it gives us greater understanding of the roles pre-existing music plays in narrative filmmaking.
* 30. Mai 1909 in Chicago/Il., † 13. Juni 1986 in New York, Jazz-Klarinettist. Benny Goodman, Sohn osteuropäischer Einwanderer, erhielt ersten Musikunterricht in einer Chicagoer Synagoge, später im ...Hu...
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Encompassing a wide range of memorabilia and artifacts, the collection includes calendars and datebooks; items collected at concerts, festivals, and jazz parties; publicity and promotional materials ...concerning Hinton's musical career; contracts and correspondence relating to his performances, recordings, and other musical work; musical scores; gifts and awards Hinton received; and photographs and negatives taken and collected by Mona Hinton. The second addition, the Stanley King Jazz Collection, includes magazines, correspondence, financial records for various touring bands in the 1940s, autographed playbills, jazz and blues sheet music, photographs, posters, concert programs, and various audio and moving-image items.
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...Reynolds has pro- vided the music world with a remarkable analysis of women songwriters before and after the turn of the last century. To meet the challenges out- lined in the report, Brenda ...Nelson-Strauss was selected to direct efforts to develop a collaborative national plan and to coordinate the work of six task forces comprised of experts from public and private institutions and organizations across the United States charged to develop recom- mendations in various aspects of sound-recording preservation.
This essay examines the multifaceted self-representations of four Jewish-American jazz musicians—Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Mezz Mezzrow, and Max Kaminsky—whose lives and careers brought them into ...intimate contact with African American music and society. The language and imagery of their autobiographies suggest that their identities are far from fixed or static; that their focus on themselves as Jews—as “other”—is complemented or replaced by a more general self-identification as white, and then, to varying degrees, by a longing to be black or to experience immersion in African American culture. This process is facilitated by their experiences of city life (and in the case of Shaw and Kaminsky, of suburban life as well), and by their attraction to jazz music and the jazz nightlife—all of which exposes them to the racial, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity of American life.
