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Augusta Ballet for three days of performances starting on
June 4 through June 6.
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I: What 'do" the following hvé in common: Bunky Greer, Roger
I' mberton, Ramsey Lewis and Von Freeman?
2. Roy Hargrove won the Jazz Trumpet 1988 Arts Award. What label
dnes he record for?
.. "hat instriment does Eric Reed play?
1 ..lichael Lec 'hart isacelebrated jazz trumpeter. He is a presidential
scholarin the arts and has won 20 international awards as a musician
composeran:i arranger. What special first-ever award did he receive?
fi 'Teodross Avery released his debut album “In Other Words” on GRP
records. What instrument does he play?
6. Who founded GRP Records?
~. Who used to take over the Tonight Show Band when Doc Severisen
; absent?
~Name the form r Count Basie drummer with the initials 8.M.?
'he first part o: the name of a vocal group is Rare. What is the
nd part.
' Where is the home of vocalist Lou Rawls?
*. In what year did Bix Beiderbecke first hear trumpeter Louis
yrmstrong?
12. What instrument does Thelonious Monk 111 play?
13. Who is Fred Foss?
11. What is the biggest free outdoor festival in the country? ‘
15. Who is Dee Dee Bridgewater?
16. Where in the city (referring to question no. 14) is the festival
held?
17. She is a pianist of the highest order known for her compositions
and arrangements. She considered the “First Lady of Jazz.” What is
her name?
18. What late great trumpeter would som:times refer to jazz as
“{lncle Tom’s music”?
19. There was a female piano player who Charlie Parker respected
so much, he wanted her to hear his first group before he took them
ont. What was her name?
20. What does ASCAP stand for?
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It’s coming!
The Sixth
Annual CSRA
Classic is
coming
Oct. 24, 1998.
Marsalis headlines Augusta
Ballet series of performances
Strut, stroll and leap for joy —
the best in jazz and dance is com
ing to Augusta! The Augusta Bal
let is proud to announce this stun
ning encore, a collaborative pro
duction with the world renowned
and Pulitzer prize winning Wynton
Marsalis and his famed Septet.
The Augusta Ballet will be per
forming “Wynton’s Bittersweet
Saga of Sugarcane and Sweetie
Pie” in four public performances
at the Imperial Theater in Au
gusta, Georgia, June 4-6, 1998.
Audiences will be transported to
the stylish 1940’s as The Augusta
Ballet joins the Wynton Marsalis
Septet toshare the stage in a magi
cal evening of spirited dancing and
sultry jazz. ¢
The evening opens with “The
Saga”, as the musicians and danc
ers parade down the aisles in a
New Orleans-style jazz funeral
procession. Marsalis portrays the
strolling trumpeter, eulogizing the
passing of two imaginary lovers
who arose from his dreamy com
positions. Performing music from
the “Blue Interlude” album, the
Septet weave their soulful tone
poems into the lyrical choreogra
phy. Musicians and dancers use
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tale of courage, vision
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n Walking with the Wind: A
Memoir of the Movement
(Simon & Schuster; $26),
John Lewis recalls his extraordi
nary journey from the cotton farm
in Alabama where he grew up to
the center of the civil rights
struggle to Congress, where he
has served since’'l9B7. Present at
all the key battlefields of the civil
rights movement — Selma, Mont
gomery, Birmingham, Mississippi
— Lewis risked his life again and
again. He was arrested more than
40 times, physically attacked and
seriously injured on several occa
sions. Throughout it all, he re
mained committed to the nonvio
lent ideals which guided that criti
cal era of American history and
established Lewis as one of the
movement’s most steadfast and
prose and expressive solos to nar
rate the fantasy lovers’ tale of pas
sion and devotion. As the idealistic
lovers’ desires intertwine in the
rising crescendoes, Marsalis grows
jealous of their love and empties
his mind of their romantic inter
ludes. The music dwindles, and
the lovers drift away to an un
known place as the dancers fade
into the wings.
Throughout the evening, The
Wynton Marsalis Septet will ac
Delta House to offer computerized
history program and art classes
Delta House, Inc. is offering two sessions of
Art and History classes this summer. The
history classes will focus on historical per
sonalities with a Central Savannah River
Area connection. This course will require
the use of computers, research and writing
skills. Open for children ages 12-17.
The art classes will focus on watercolor,
oils, pencil, clay and some crafts. The classes
are available for children ages 5-17.
Born the son
of share
croppers
in 1940,
Lawis
recognized
theinjustice of
segregation
from an
early age
and realized
that he
could never
live a life
of stoic
acceptance.
courageous leaders,
Born the son of sharecroppersin
1940, Lewis recognized the injus
tice of segregation from an early
age and realized that he could
never live a life of stoic acceptance.
As a teenager, he was galvanized
by the historic Supreme Court de
cisions regarding school desegre
gation, by the words of Martin
Luther King-which came as a rev
elation when he first heard them
over the radio one Sunday morn
ing-and by the Montgomery bus
boycott of 1955, which was taking
place just 50 miles up the highway
from his home in Troy, Alabama.
“I can still say without question,”
he writes, “that the ... boycott
changed my life more than any
other event before or since.”
Set on becoming a preacher,
company each of Powlus’ choreo
graphed pieces in addition to per
forming selections from such al
bums as “In This House,” “Citi
Movement,” “The Majesty of the
Blues,” “Intimacy Calling” and
“Tune in Tomorrow.” Musical se
lections from Wycliffe Gordon and
Ron Westry’salbum, “Bone Struc
ture,” will also be featured.
The second and third acts take
place in the smokey jazz nights of
“Le Case Imperial,” a New Or
All classes will be held at the Lucy Craft
Laney Museum of Black History, 1116 Phillips
Street, from 9 a.m. until 12 noon.
The first session will begin June 15, 1998
and end July 10. The second session will
begin July 20 through August 14.
For more information, please call Miss Davis
at (706) 724-3576.
Lewis became 18 first member of
his family bglgnd college when
he enrolled at the American Bap
tist Theological Seminary in Nash
ville in 1957. His focus quickly
shifted away from the classroom
when he began attending a series
of workshops given by a man
named James Lawson, who ex
plained the use of passive resis
tance and nonviolent action as
tools for desegregation. Inspired
by the teachings of Gandhi, Jesus
Christ, and Martin Luther King,
Lawson believed that the ultimate
goal of the nonviolent struggle for
justice was what he and Dr. King
called the “Beloved Community,”
which would encompass all of hu
manity in the harmony it natu
rally seeks.
“These were incredibly power
fulideas,” Lewis writes, “and their
beauty was that they applied to
real life, to the specifics of the
world we walked in.” He soon put
them to the test as a leader of the
Nashville Student Movement,
which succeeded in peacefully de
segregating thatcity. In February
of 1960, Lewis encountered physi
cal violence for the first time when
he wasknocked offalunch counter
stool by a group of young whites
during a peaceful sit-in, then ar
rested for disorderly conduct. “As
we were led out of the store single
file, singing “We Shall Overcome,’
I felt exhilarated,” he writes. “As
we passed through a cheering
crowd gathered on the sidewalk
outside, I felt high, almost giddy
with joy. As we approached the
rear open doors of a paddy wagon,
1 felt elated. It was really happen
ing, what I’d imagined for so long,
the drama of good and evil playing
itself out on the stage of the living,
breathing world. It felt holy, and
noble, and good.” Lewis would
experience this “Freedom High”
dozens of times over the next few
years, countering physical and
verbal violence with the “soul
force” of nonviolent resistance, re
leans nightclub. Set to the sway-f
ing rhythms of “When It’s Sleepy »
Time Down South,” “Mama}
Leona,” and other jazz favorites, }
the Company will perform a grand
finale of swing/jump adagio, Latin'; |
and ballroom dances. Closing with:} '
rousing versions of “Happy Feet}
Blues,” thedancers and musicians }
will spill into the aisles, taking a } |
joyful spin with the audience in}
this much anticipated encore pro-} -
duction. s
demptive suffering and love sot
one’s oppressors. 3
With the civil rights strugglé
intensifying in the spring of 1960,
Lewis and other student leaders
created the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC);
which quickly became one of the
key organizations in the move:
ment. Lewis participated in the
famous “Freedom Rides” of 19613
traveling on a bus through the
Deep South with a group of blacks
and whites to challenge segrega:
tion at interstate bus terminals
Brutally beaten in South Carolind
and Alabama, Lewis was left lving
bloody and unconscious in Mon
gomery, while several of his fnllm‘
passengers received permanently
disabling injuries. In 1963, Lewis
was elected chairman of the SNCG;
a role which made him, at the ag
of 23, one of the six most im
tant civil rights leadersin the couty
try, and thrust him into the nige
tional spotlight as a feature
speaker at that year’s massive
March on Washington. Lewiq’
memorable speech, which he w
forced to tone down because
objections from some of the mo
established movement leaders
prophetically called for a soci
and economic revolution in rac
relations, as well as for votin
rights and equality before the la
Duringthe springof 1964, Lewi
helped train hundreds ofblack a
white student volunteers frqg
across the country to take part i
what became the deadly “Missj
sippi Summer.” In a crime t
stunned the nation, three youn
volunteers — Michael Schwerne
Andrew Goodman, and Jam
Chaney—werekilled; dozens raor
were attacked and arrested as the
worked to register black vo
Thefollowingyear, Lewisled mo
than 500 marchers across t
Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selm
Alabama, on what became kno
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