Oakton Community College - Music

02/12/2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/arts/music/chick-corea-dead.html

When jazz and rock fused in the 1970s, he was at the forefront of the movement. But he never abandoned his love of the acoustic piano.

01/08/2021

https://www.sfjazz.org/

Founded by Randall Kline in 1983 under the name Jazz in the City, SFJAZZ has become the world’s leading cultural institution devoted to jazz and related forms of music, presenting over 300 performances each year at the new SFJAZZ Center and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

11/21/2020

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/science-of-music

Listen up!

10/18/2019

Inspired by the effects of music in nursing homes, Lorna Prendergast embarked on a Masters of Ageing on music and dementia. Here is some of what she learned.

10/09/2019

If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn't want to go; maybe you didn't like practicing. But we have some bad news: They were right. It turns…

10/09/2019

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/podcast-how-music-can-change-our-mood

A Broadway songwriter and a marketing professor discuss the connection between our favorite tunes and how they make us feel.

10/08/2019

Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Awadagin Pratt performed J. S. Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor at the White House in 2009: https://bit.ly/ZumhtU.
Hear him on the Skyline Piano Artist Series this season: https://bit.ly/2m97Egj

10/02/2019

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/obituary-jessye-norman

10/01/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxh-VTqNK0c

This is the fifth of Mahler's five Ruckert-Lieder, recorded at Avery Fisher Hall with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic. Performed at the opening of ...

10/01/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=709TjFmoKAs

10/01/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5jZe32DEYI

American opera singer and recitalist Jessye Norman delivers a powerful performance of "Amazing Grace" as a tribute to Bahamian-American actor and film direct...