- State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Slides presented at:
Creativity in Music Education Summit
State University of New York Fredonia
Sept. 21, 2019
Creativity in Music Education Summit
State University of New York Fredonia
Sept. 21, 2019
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November 14, 2016 7:30 PM Misciagna Family Center Wolf Kuhn Theatre Penn State Altoona Historian and priest, Ivan Illich talked about friendship in terms of a “cultivation of conspiracy,” of con-spiring, that is, of... more
November 14, 2016
7:30 PM
Misciagna Family Center
Wolf Kuhn Theatre
Penn State Altoona
Historian and priest, Ivan Illich talked about friendship in terms of a “cultivation of conspiracy,” of con-spiring, that is, of “breathing-together.” With this understanding of friendship in mind, Dan Shevock and Friends is a musical breathing-together. Highly improvisational, jazz involves trust, the core of this conspiring. Even when no singer is present, jazz is based on a shared collection of songs. In the first part of tonight’s concert, we’ll play vocal music from the Great American Songbook and other standards. French composer, Claude Debussy said, “There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little – the book of Nature.” The next part of the concert aims to read from the “book of Nature.” We pull ideas from jazz innovators such as by Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, and Paul Winter to cultivate “ecological jazz,” fusing diverse musics of non-human life with human improvisations. We hope you enjoy this evening’s conspiracy.
7:30 PM
Misciagna Family Center
Wolf Kuhn Theatre
Penn State Altoona
Historian and priest, Ivan Illich talked about friendship in terms of a “cultivation of conspiracy,” of con-spiring, that is, of “breathing-together.” With this understanding of friendship in mind, Dan Shevock and Friends is a musical breathing-together. Highly improvisational, jazz involves trust, the core of this conspiring. Even when no singer is present, jazz is based on a shared collection of songs. In the first part of tonight’s concert, we’ll play vocal music from the Great American Songbook and other standards. French composer, Claude Debussy said, “There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little – the book of Nature.” The next part of the concert aims to read from the “book of Nature.” We pull ideas from jazz innovators such as by Ornette Coleman, Pharoah Sanders, and Paul Winter to cultivate “ecological jazz,” fusing diverse musics of non-human life with human improvisations. We hope you enjoy this evening’s conspiracy.