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Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia's annual "Portraits
in Jazz, XV" concert is the culmination of a
15 year jazz tradition on campus. The
present lab band, which won the Central
States Colleges Jazz Festival last spring, grew
from a group of musicians that gathered on
Sunday afternoons to share jazz interests.
They began annual concerts with Phi Mu
Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity sponsoring
the performance and returning the profits to
the university through music scholarships
and new pieces of music. A guest star was,
added along the way and the gathering is
now a univeristy credit course for three
bands.
Dominic Spera and a new jazz
composition by music professor Robert
Beadell, "Chicago Dance No. 1" are featured
with this year's concert on Friday at 8 p.m.
in Kimball Recital Hall. "We're excited
about his (Spera's) visit because he is not
only a great trumpeter, but a music educator
as well. This helps in being able to teach a
student jazz as well as play for him,"
Sinfonia vice-president Randy Hlavac said.
Spera, faculty member at the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Clarie, has played
professionally on Broadway, in tours and on
recordings for Burt Bacharach, Bob Hope,
Johnny Mathis and Henry Mancini.
"I wanted to be where jazz could be done
uncompromised and to give my ideas and be
there to defend them. College campuses are
the last holdouts for a high, sincere jazz
performance that isn't watered down to
make a commercial success," Spera said.
"Jazz is our only native art form and
should be dealt with on its highest level as is
possible in a college atmosphere where
students' performing educates and helps
them create, giving our future teachers a
whole new musical language," he said.
Spera also said colleges were becoming the
stronghold of American culture, and being in
their creative environment is important for
the artist's education and growth.
"Jazz never stands still. It goes where the
American culture does, even moving ahead
of it sometimes. No matter what happens,
jazz shifts and goes right along. No one
realizes how much it has influenced our
life," he said.
Current jazz can be traced through the
Dixie sound into the big band swing era with
WW II bending jazz into the "bebop" sound
of the fifties. The civil rights movement in
the sixties shaped it towards rock and roil,
Spera said.
Sounds for "Chicago Dance No. 1" came
from composer Robert Beadell's background
in the big band era in Chicago.
Contrary tov the Dixieland idea of
musicians improvising entire pieces, Beadell
said, jazz also is written for larger groups
with places for improvised solos.
On the Friday program also are "Walls of
Jerico" "I Remember Clifford," "Honesty",
"Central Park North," "Big Dipper" and
"Time Check".
"If a student has never heard jazz or never
heard it performed by a good band, this
concert and Spera's clinic at 1:30 Friday in
Westbrook 131, would be a good way to
hear jazz and learn a bit about it," Halvac
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