Telling Your Story Through Music with Marcus Shelby July 23, 2007

How can musicmore specifically Jazz musicbe used to tell a story? Award-winning Jazz composer and educator Marcus Shelby will guide you through various approaches to creating scores for text, theater and film using examples from his own compositions and the scores of other jazz composers such as Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. This course will include lecture and will incorporate extensive listening and discussion. Musicians of all levels of experience are welcome and Shelby will work with individual students to address particular interests and skill levels. This workshop is also ideal for non-musicians who want to deepen their music appreciation.

Born in February 1966, Marcus Shelby has been playing the acoustic bass for 23 years. In this time, he has built a diverse and accomplished biography. Shelby was bandleader of Columbia Records and GRP Impulse! Recording Artists Black/Note and is currently the Artistic Director and leader of The Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, The Marcus Shelby Septet and the Marcus Shelby Trio. In addition, Shelby holds an instructor position at the Berkeley Young Musician Program, San Francisco State University and the Stanford Jazz Workshop and is the 2006 Fellow in the Resident Dialogues Program of the Committee for Black Performing Arts at Stanford University. As the 1991 winner of the Charles Mingus Scholarship, Shelbys studies include work under the tutelage of composer James Newton and legendary bassist Charlie Haden. Recent honors include the City Flight Magazine 2005 award as one of the Top Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area.

ALL LEVELS AND AGES ARE WELCOME.

The Intersection Institute provides year-round opportunities for people to engage in an interactive exploration of the complete process of creating new art from conception to fruition. The program includes classes, workshops, forums and performances that combine unique social and aesthetic content with interdisciplinary artistic elements.

Our educational programs are suitable for all ages and are available to educators, students, community groups, artists and non-artists with all levels of skill and experience.

To register for a workshop, please call us at 415-626-2787 or reserve online at www.theintersection.org


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