[NewMusicEvents] STEVE LACY & POETS: a lecture by Jason Weiss, Monday - Mar. 26th

[John L. Bischoff]

The Mills College Music Department and Songlines Series present:

STEVE LACY & POETS: a lecture by Jason Weiss

Monday, March 26th
7:30 pm
Ensemble Room, Music Building

Admission: FREE

Soprano saxophonist and jazz composer Steve Lacy (1934-2004) wrote some
200 songs since the late 1960s based on poets and other texts. Many of
these were performed and recorded by his regular group, which included
his wife, Irene Aebi, who sang and played violin and cello. His
earliest songs set texts by Buckminster Fuller and Lao Tzu, but he
later drew on Brion Gysin, Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, and many
others. Included in this talk will be musical examples from Lacy's
recorded body of work. Jason Weiss is the editor of "Steve Lacy:
Conversations" published by Duke University Press and the author of
"The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris."

for more information contact:
John Bischoff, Music Department
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
510-430-2331

Mills College is located off 580 freeway in Oakland.  Take the MacArthur
Blvd. exit (just after High St.), turn right at the bottom of the exit,
and enter the college immediately on
your left through the College gates.

http://music.mills.edu/services/calendar/