The BYU School of Music


Oscarson Music Lecture Series


AND the BRAVO! Professional Performing Arts Series


How to Prepare for Wynton's Virtual Visit


We invite you to prepare for this virtual visit by reading, watching, or listening to something from the following list:

Read:

  • Choose something from “Wynton’s Top Ten: Compelling Works on the Subject of Freedom” (includes writings by Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as the U.S. Constitution)

  • Read a chapter from Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life (2008) or To a Young Jazz Musician (2004)


    • Watch:

  • Watch a recorded concert from Jazz at Lincoln Center: "Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie," "Music of Miles Davis," "The JLCO Plays Monk," "JLCO Songbook" etc.

  • Watch an episode from Ken Burns' Jazz (with Wynton as frequent narrator)

  • Watch an episode from the Peabody Award winning PBS program on music education (for kids), Marsalis on Music

  • Watch a video essay about the impact of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” (for CBS News)


    • Listen:

  • Grammy-winning jazz albums: Standard Time, Vol. 1 (1987), J Mood (1986), Black Codes from the Underground (1985)

  • Grammy-winning classical performance: Wynton Marsalis Plays Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, and Molter (1984)

  • Pulitzer-prize winning composition Blood on the Fields (1997)


    • This event is part of the Listen Up Sessions, an ongoing initiative of the CFA DIA committee,
    and is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Oscarson Lecture Series in the BYU School of Music.



    WYNTON



    MARSALIS


    Artistic Director of
    Jazz at Lincoln Center

    Director of Juilliard Jazz

    Grammy, Emmy, and Pulitzer Prize Winning Performer, Composer, and Educator

     

     

    Wednesday, October 28

     

     

    6:00 PM - Conversation with the BYU School of Music
                        Dr. Jason Bergman, moderator

    To receive the Zoom link for this event you must register here: https://byu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_reE36l0MSOSPmQzQrr1_0g

    It will ask you for your name and email address, after which the Zoom link will be emailed to you.

    7:00 PM - Streamed Concert - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet
                       with Wynton Marsalis: The Sound of Democracy 

    Beginning at 7pm on the 28th a 24-hour on-demand stream can be found at: https://arts.byu.edu/wynton-marsalis/