JazzReach
Big Drum/Small World
by JazzReach
Thursday, January 28, 9:30 & 11 a.m., Showcase Theatre
Grades: K-5
11 a.m. performance
This immersive, globally themed multi-media program features performances of new commissions by prominent, internationally recognized jazz composers hailing from West Africa, Israel, Cuba, Iraq, Puerto Rico, India, Spain, Brazil, China and the United States. The program features fun, short video interludes that offer biographical background on the composers and how the American jazz tradition and their individual cultural heritages have shaped their artistic visions. Big Drum/Small World promotes the value of creative collaboration and the idea of jazz as a forum for exploring differences, sharing ideas and discovering common ground.
Established in 1994, JazzReach is a nationally recognized New York City-based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, performance, creation and teaching of jazz music. Through the presentation of innovative, widely acclaimed programs for young audiences, concerts for general audiences and informative clinics and master-classes, JazzReach is ardently dedicated to fostering a greater appreciation, awareness and understanding of this rich, vital, ever-evolving American art form.
