NEC Festival: Contemporary Musical Arts Today – A Global Vision Realized

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The Contemporary Musical Arts program will celebrate Gunther Schuller’s 100th birthday with a concert focusing on how his daringly inclusive musical and educational vision transformed NEC into a global artistic musical scene. Schuller's legacy, carried forward from the 1970s through the early 2000s by our emeritus chair, Ran Blake, still informs our department's rich intercultural musical dialog nearly sixty years after Schuller became president, and has become a primary template for innovation in musical creativity worldwide.

Tonight's program, produced by current chair Eden MacAdam-Somer and former co-chair Hankus Netsky, will feature performances by CMA students and faculty, drawing on sources that have inspired CMA students throughout our department's history: American Roots music, Early Jazz, Yiddish song, Film Noir, traditional and original music from Central Asia, the Middle East, China, and Haiti, and selections from the repertoire of Billie Holiday, Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Joe Maneri and Miles Davis.

All attendees are invited to a special reception in Brown Hall after the concert.

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This performance is part of the NEC Festival, which will celebrate the legacy of Gunther Schuller, president of NEC between 1967 and 1977 with a week-long series of concerts and discussions. In addition to reflecting on his work as a composer, conductor and scholar, the legacy of Gunther Schuller’s influence on NEC will be demonstrated through a range of collaborative presentations. Learn more about the NEC Festival here.
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