[NewMusicEvents] Patterns: Music and Related Arts in the African American Tradition

[Steed Cowart]

The Mills College Music Department presents

PATTERNS: MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS
IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITION 2009

A Lecture-Performance Series hosted by Mills College Music 170: 
African American Music: The Meaning and the Message 

Tuesday, April 14, 9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
EDDIE GALE, Trumpeter, San José’s Ambassador of Jazz 
"University of the Bandstand"
Growing Up In Jazz - An Oral History of Jazz in the '50s & '60s
and its Impact on the Civil Rights Movement 

Thursday, April 16, 9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
BRENDA SCHUMAN-POST, Oboist, Documentarian
African Blackwood
A Global Connection: Harvesting the Music Tree 

Tuesday, April 21, 9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
ELAYNE JONES, Tympanist, Educator
Where Is The Music Headed?

All events in the Music Building Ensemble Room

FREE admission.

Light Refreshments
Children Welcome!

Mills College 
5000 MacArthur Blvd, 
Oakland 94613