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Boston Jazz Repertory Orchestra
Greater Boston Arts highlights the bold sounds of Boston's new jazz big band, the Boston Jazz Repertory Orchestra. Co-directors Bill Lowe's and Carl Atkins's ambition for the group is to explore an expanded jazz repertoire, programming challenging arrangements from Duke Ellington to Sun Ra. For Lowe, bringing together such a large group in the big band format provides a special opportunity, "Collectively, we are much greater than the sum of all these individual parts. There is a sense of community - when this band swings that community happens." At a blistering rehearsal, Greater Boston Arts listens in as the 17-piece group breaks down and finesses Bill Barron's arrangement of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" for an upcoming performance.
Boston Jazz Repertory Orchestra On the eve of the Boston Lyric Opera's staging of Tod Machover's "Resurrection," Greater Boston Arts profiles this accomplished concert hall composer, MIT Media Lab professor, and inventor committed to bridging music and technology. Machover is probably best known for his hyper-instruments, musical instruments with elaborate sensors and computer processors that can read a player's gestures and enhance the sound. Machover and his students are currently at work on his latest project, a set of interactive musical toys including rhythmic "beat bug" instruments that communicate without wires to help children create music. Greater Boston Arts learns that for Machover, who is currently composing a toy score for an orchestra of both children and professionals, the toys have a serious intent - that of giving non-artists a chance to create art.
Boston Lyric Opera presents Resurrection by Tod Machover as performed by the Boston Lyric Opera will air on 89.7fm on Sunday, November 18, 2001. Join host Ron Della Chiesa for WGBH SymphonyCast beginning at 2pm with the opera beginning at 3pm. Greater Boston Arts offers viewers a lesson in classical Indian dance through a profile of Neena Gulati, one of Boston's master teachers. An instructor for more than 25 years, Gulati explains that students who can combine both the rhythmic footwork and the dramatic facial expressions of Indian dance storytelling are the ones who continue successfully. Gulati's own choreography innovates by re-combining centuries-old steps in contemporary ways. Greater Boston Arts visits with Gulati at her Triveni School of Dance to learn the Hastas (hand gestures) and Attami (neck movement) that every student must learn before their Arengetram (ascending to stage) graduation performance.
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