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Music | Music Lectures
Sunday, February 12th 2012
4:00 PM
Jazz at the Mansion: Jerry Portnoy Trio
Grammy award-winning harmonica player Jerry Portnoy grew up in the blues rich atmosphere of the Maxwell Street Market during the golden age of Chicago Blues. Six years a member of the famed Muddy Waters Blues Band, he spent another four as a featured soloist of the Eric Clapton Band travelling to every state in the union and twenty-five foreign countries. He has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, London's Royal Albert Hall and at major jazz festivals worldwide including Newport, Montreaux, Warsaw and the Grande Parade of Jazz in Nice, France. Tickets are $20 if purchased by noon on Friday, February 10.
 or by calling 508-495-1878, ext. 303; $25 at the door.
Sunday, June 3rd 2012
4:00 PM
Sara Daneshpour, Piano, in Recital
Twenty-three year old pianist Sara Daneshpour is a veteran globetrotter, traveling to Israel, Russia and Poland for performances during the summer of 2011. First prize and Gold Medal winner of the 2007 International Russian Music Piano Competition and 1st prize of the 2003 Beethoven Society of America Competition, she also captured the 2nd prize of the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she was a student of Leon Fleisher, Ms. Daneshpour has also been presented in recital in Germany, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, and Sweden and has been heard on more than 160 NPR stations. Tickets are $20 if purchased by noon on Friday, June 1.
or by calling 508-495-1878, ext. 303; $25 at the door.
Saturday, February 25th 2012
10:00 AM
Purveyors of Excellence: The Story of Steinway and Sons, Lecture by Robert Wyatt
There were more than 300 piano makers in New England when German immigrant Heinrich Steinweg and five of his sons opened a piano company in New York in 1853. With a simple maxim propelling their enterprise, “build the best piano possible,” they emerged 10 years later as the largest and most successful piano manufacturer in North America. Steinway Artist Robert Wyatt guides you through the compelling family saga with an historical and technical narrative, live performance and film footage of construction practices within the 130 year old Steinway factory in New York. Tickets are $20 if purchased by noon on Friday, February 24.
or by calling 508-495-1878, ext. 303; $25 at the door.
Saturday, April 7th 2012
10:00 AM
Portraits in Blues: The Story of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
Lecture by Robert Wyatt Spawned from slavery’s vast repertoire of spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, “the blues” emerged early in the second decade of the twentieth century as a vehicle to express the melancholy of the human condition. A musical form as well as genre, the early recorded blues songs of soulful female singers like Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday helped establish the popularity of the art form in an American culture thirsty for stimulation. In most instances, the suffering expressed by their songs was a reflection of their own misery. Tickets are $20 if purchased by noon on Friday, April 5.
or by calling 508-495-1878, ext. 303; $25 at the door.
Saturday, May 5th 2012
10:00 AM
From the Roots Up: A Jazz Retrospective, Lecture by Robert Wyatt
The new sounds were born on the plantations of the South, a strange melding of African rhythms, call and response patterns shouted by field hands and traditional European harmonies supplied by slave owners. It was an era when ragtime riffs were pounded out by piano “professors” in the American gaming rooms, brothels and dance halls while instrumental music slowly left New Orleans by river boat, heading up the Mississippi and touching each port along the long route north. Before long “the blues” found its voice within the mix and eventually one word was used to describe the vital new music—jazz. Tickets are $20 if purchased by noon on Friday, May 4.
or by calling 508-495-1878, ext. 303; $25 at the door.
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