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IU Jazz Ensemble to salute Hoagy Carmichael in Nov. 1 concert on World Wide Web
Oct. 27, 1999
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A tribute to Hoagy Carmichael will highlight a Monday (Nov. 1) concert by the Indiana University Jazz Ensemble that will be broadcast on the World Wide Web.
David Baker, IU Distinguished Professor of Music and chair of the Jazz Studies Department, will direct the 8 p.m. EST program in the Musical Arts Center. It will be open to the public without charge.
Baker, internationally recognized in jazz circles, will direct arrangements of "Georgia On My Mind," "The Nearness of You," "Lazy Bones," "Skylark," "Rockin' Chair," "Heart and Soul," "Stardust," and "Ole Buttermilk Sky" in a 100th anniversary tribute to Carmichael, an Indiana native and IU graduate.
Also featured will be two original works by Baker, "Blues for D.P." and "Cahaphi," and "In a Sentimental Mood" by Duke Ellington. Baker has performed with Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson and is known worldwide as a jazz clinician, lecturer and author.
The Internet broadcast, one of four involving IU School of Music events in November, represents a pioneering use of computer technology. Other upcoming Web music events are the University Orchestra led by Ray Cramer and featuring IU Basketball Coach Bob Knight in a narration of Copland's Lincoln Portrait on Nov. 3; the IU Opera Theater production of Puccini's one-act operas Sister Angelica and Gianni Schicchi on Nov. 12; and the IU Philharmonic Orchestra directed by former Boston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Joseph Silverstein on Nov. 14.
Approximately 5,000 viewers and listeners in 23 countries accessed the first IU Internet music broadcast on Sept. 14, a concert by renowned cellists Janos Starker of the IU faculty and Mstislav Rostropovich.
The Web broadcast of the jazz program will be archived for one month. Computer viewers will need RealNetworks' RealPlayer G2, which is included with Netscape 4.6 and above or can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.real.com/products/player/ It will take phone modem users 20 to 30 minutes to download and install the software from the RealNetworks site.
For more information on the jazz program and other upcoming Web-broadcast musical events at IU, go to http://broadcast.iu.edu/ or phone the IU School of Music at 812-855-9846 or visit the School of Music's Web site at http://www.music.indiana.edu
(Arizeder Urreiztieta, School of Music, 812-855-9846, aurreizt@indiana.edu or Richard Doty, 812-855-0084, rgdoty@indiana.edu)