The Bulletin of the S OCIETY for a MERICAN M USIC FOUNDED in HONOR of O SCAR G
The Bulletin OF THE S OCIETY FOR A MERICAN M USIC FOUNDED IN HONOR OF O SCAR G . T. S ONNECK Vol. XXXII, No. 1 Winter 2006 SAM/CBMR Conference: Chicago, Illinois (Looks Mighty Good to Me) — Mariana Whitmer “I’ve lived in Pennsylvania and Portland, Music and Dance at Chicago’s fabulous Oregon, the SAM History Project session. In the state of Arizona, in Seattle, Millenium Park on Wednesday evening All conference attendees will be able to Washington (after the welcome reception), performing experience the CBMR sessions as well as I’ve had good times in Georgia, three world premieres. Howard Reich’s 2004 SAM’s. These include Black Music in Italy, And in good old New York State review of this ensemble included the follow- From Jump Street to MP3: Black Music I’ve lived in Dallas, Texas, ing remarks: “The very notion, in fact, that Pedagogy—Resources and Challenges of Seen Frisco’s Golden Gate any one ensemble could finesse modern the Twenty-First Century, International I’ve spent some time in Caroline, American jazz, 16th Century Portuguese Scholarship and Black Music, and And I love you Tennessee, motets and ancient Afro-Cuban chant Connecting the Dots: Diasporal Unities, But old Chicago, Illinois looks mighty good might seem preposterous. Yet...the New Triangular Research, and the CBMR/ to me! Black Music Repertory Ensemble dis- AMRI Rockefeller Resident Fellowship We are thrilled to be holding our 32nd patched these far-flung idioms, and oth- Program, among others. Annual Conference in Chicago and meeting ers, with a degree of authority and verve There are several wonderful lecture/ once again with the Center for Black Music that confounded expectations.” recitals on this year’s program, all of them Research! Muhal Richard Abrams, famed per- scheduled during the late morning (so you There are many reasons why Chicago former, composer, and co-founder of the leg- won’t have to skip lunch).
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