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Charles Peltz at Jordan Hall

Courtesy of Ann Braithwaite | Posted on January 31, 2014

Where

Jordan Hall
30 Gainsborough Street
Boston, MA
Map
(617) 585-1260

When

Thu, February 13, 2014
7:00 pm

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Join Charles Peltz, Director of New England Conservatory’s Wind Ensemble activities, as he conducts Third Stream Headwaters, a program in which he traces the history of NEC's unique Contemporary Improvisation program (originally Third Stream) and the extraordinary music it has unleashed. The concert takes place on Thursday, February 13 at 7 p.m. at Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA. It is free and open to the public. For more information, log on to http://www.necmusic.edu/nec-wind-ensemble-peltz-0 or call 617-585-1122.

This concert – and one on March 6 when NEC hosts the Concert Band Directors National Association Eastern Division conference – will feature the premiere performances of From Here to There, a work commissioned by NEC from past president Gunther Schuller who coined the term "Third Stream" as the fusion he foresaw of jazz and classical idioms, and created NEC's program of studies devoted to its blossoming. The program also features the world premiere live performance of visionary jazz bassist Charles Mingus’ Half-Mast Inhibition in its original orchestration. Half-Mast Inhibition was Mingus’ earliest orchestral work, and was recorded in 1960. Other works to be performed include Darius Milhaud’s La Création du Monde, Milton Babbitt’s All Set, and Frank Zappa’s Dog Breath Variations. ...

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