EarRelevant Staff | 27 JUL 2021
- Atlanta Jazz Festival artists to host free “Jazz 101” educational classes
- Aspen Music Festival opera director Edward Berkeley dies hours before performance of The Magic Flute
➤ Atlanta Jazz Festival artists to host free “Jazz 101” educational classes
ATLANTA, GA— ATLANTA, GA– Attendees to the 43rd Atlanta Jazz Festival will get more than entertainment from some of the best modern-day jazz greats this year. Six featured artists from this year’s Atlanta Jazz Festival will hold free Jazz 101 master classes for up to 250 attendees per workshop.
“The Atlanta Jazz Festival attracts music lovers of all ages, and this year we wanted to give festival goers a chance to learn even more about jazz culture and provide them a more intimate setting to interact with their favorite musicians,” said Camille Russell Love, executive director of the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. “We want people to leave the festival feeling enriched with jazz culture from the music they hear to the education they receive.”
The Festival will be held at Piedmont Park over Labor Day weekend, Sunday and Monday, September 5 & 6. – Monday, September 6.
For more information, please visit www.atlantafestivals.com or the Festival’s mobile channel, ATLJazzFest.com, from their smart device. ■
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➤ Aspen Music Festival opera director Edward Berkeley dies hours before performance of The Magic Flute
ASPEN, CO— The Aspen Music Festival and School‘s longtime Aspen Opera Center director Edward Berkeley died unexpectedly Saturday, July 17, in advance of that evening’s performance of Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, which Berkeley directed. The cast and orchestra learned of his death only 15 minutes before they were to perform.
From the stage, Music Fest president and CEO Alan Fletcher, Aspen Music Festival music director Robert Spano and board chair Michael Klein shared the news of Berkeley’s passing with the audience and led them in a moment of silence before beginning the performance in Berkeley’s honor.
“However strange it may seem on the surface, to have ‘The Magic Flute’ upon hearing this news is a testament to the joy he gave all of us and the ebullience of this music speaks to the ebullience he brought to his students and the genius he brought to Aspen every year,” Spano told the crowd. “We are all going to miss him terribly.”
Berkeley, age 76, was in his 40th season on faculty at the Festival. He also was a longtime faculty member at The Juilliard School and a prominent theater director in New York.
Read more in the Aspen Times article by Andrew Travers.
The Aspen Music Festival and School runs through August 22. For more information, visit the Festival’s website at: www.aspenmusicfestival.com ■
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