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MEDIA
ADVISORY
ATTENTION:
ASSIGNMENT EDITORS, MUSIC WRITERS
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3/9/00
Contact: Kathleen Maclay
(510)643-5651
ckm@pa.urel.berkeley.edu
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WHAT: |
The
Earl "Fatha" Hines Symposium, an event to honor
the late legendary jazz pianist and band leader. The University
of California, Berkeley, symposium will focus on Hines'
contributions to the jazz piano and big band traditions
and his connection to the bebop movement. It will include
a panel discussion by San Francisco Bay Area musicians,
music critics and former close associates.
The
program, co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Music Department
and the campus's Townsend Center for the Humanities, is
free and open to the public.
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WHEN: |
Saturday,
March 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
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WHERE: |
The
Elkus Room (Room 125) on the first floor of UC Berkeley's
Morrison Hall, on the southeastern side of the campus. |
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WHO: |
Symposium
speakers will include eminent jazz historian and composer-conductor
Gunther Schuller, author of the critically acclaimed books
"Early Jazz" and "The Swing Era;" Hines
piano music scholar Jeff Taylor of City University of New
York; and Anthony Brown, a scholar and Grammy nominee band
leader. Professor Olly Wilson of the UC Berkeley Music Department
will moderate the symposium. |
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BACKGROUND:
Hines, who died in 1983 at the age of 78, lived in Oakland
for the last three decades of his life and was a Regents'
Lecturer in music at UC Berkeley in 1979.
NOTE:
For more information, contact UC Berkeley's Music Department
at (510) 642-0825.
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