In Tuesday’s (1/7) New York Times ArtsBeat blog, Allan Kozinn writes that Make Music New York, which operates annual daylong citywide festivals on June 21, the summer solstice, as well as December 21, the winter solstice, “is starting Make Music Monthly, a series of musical talks at the Cornelia Street Cafe that will also be made available as podcasts” in collaboration with the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. At the first, on Jan. 15, the composer and jazz historian Gunther Schuller will discuss Charles Mingus’s ‘Epitaph,’ a huge, two-hour work that had its world premiere in 1989 … under Mr. Schuller’s baton. Mr. Schuller’s talk will commemorate the 25th anniversary of that first performance. Also among the talks scheduled so far, the tabla player Samir Chatterjee will speak on Feb. 19 about music in Afghanistan before, during and after the reign of the Taliban, which banned performances. And Wilson Brown, an expert on ‘sonic branding,’ will talk about music for advertising. The discussions will available as podcasts on the Make Music New York and New School web pages.”
Posted January 10, 2014
