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Tabla Master Zakir Hussain, 73, Succumbs to Illness
Tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain, one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors and a revered figure worldwide…
University Of The Arts in Philadelphia is among the 212 schools listed in this year’s Student Music Guide.
(Photo: Kevin Merinsky/University Of The Arts)DownBeat’s annual Student Music Guide contains essential information for students who are preparing to enter college or graduate school. This comprehensive guide includes detailed school listings, complete with deadlines, costs and key faculty members. Plus, we’ve got the DownBeat Jazz Education Awards, as well as articles that explore the challenges jazz education programs face due to the pandemic. DB
• The Importance Of A Music Degree: Jazz educators offer insights on the value of a music degree in the current environment, where online learning is a necessity for so many students.
• Best Practices For Online Music Instruction: Jazz educators explore the keys to “getting it right” when it comes to remote learning for student musicians.
• Teaching Asynchronous Ensembles: Jazz educators discuss their approaches to ensemble courses, now that it’s impossible for many combos and bands to assemble in the same room.
• Robert ‘Doc’ Morgan Demanded Excellence
• Lee Secard Sets High Standards
• Tina Raymond Leads By Example
• Academic Programs Restructure Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
• Schools Devise Multiple Plans For Fall
These stories originally were published in the August, September and October 2020 issues of DownBeat. Subscribe here.
“Watching people like Max Roach or Elvin Jones and seeing how they utilize the whole drum kit in a very rhythmic and melodic way and how they stretched time — that was a huge inspiration to me,” Hussain said in DownBeat.
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