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Dear friends in music,

My new, El Sistema-inspired, QJMC-propelled music education project at a school in rural Cambodia now has a website presentation: www.globalvillagecambodia.org

Please stop by, either on the…

 This shows how the elements of Traditional Music…

The National Guild is hosting a two-day training event at the Roundabout Theatre in NYC April 19-20.  Please join us! http://ning.it/GR8nq8

Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats Participant Max Starcevic Castro Becomes an LP Endorser

The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance is pleased to announce that Max Starcevic Castro, age 13 and a member of our Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats Ensemble, has become an LP Endorser. As an LP endorser, Max is now an ambassador of the LP brand to the public. He is the "face" of LP to the masses.  Some of the benefits of being an official LP endorser include the purchase of gear directly from LP at the discounted artist…

Mambo, Boogalu, Salsa, Hip Hop, Turntable and Beyond!

Música Nueva 5: Big Band Poetry Jam & Beyond @ Symphony Space

The AFRO LATIN JAZZ ALLIANCE is pleased to present Arturo O'Farrill  and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra In a big band spoken word celebration of the Nuyorican poetry movement at Symphony Space curated by poet and percussionist Angel Rodriguez, at which a lineup of guest poets will perform their works set to arrangements played by the…

Please join us in an online webinar describing how Numbered Notes could revolutionize music notation.  We use numbers 1-12 instead of letters with accidentals.  It has a 12 note staff so each staff is exactly the same.  Octave numbers in front of the staff tell you what range you are in. It also uses a new form of timing so that it is more logical and easier to learn and use.  Beginners can learn it in one sitting and it is great for teaching the relationships between music and…

Our Town supports creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities with the arts at their core. Our Town will invest in creative and innovative projects in which communities, together with their arts and design organizations and artists, seek to:



* Improve their qual...ity of life.

* Encourage creative activity.

* Create community identity and a sense of place.

* Revitalize local…

The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, is now accepting applications for the 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards.



Twelve programs this year will receive $10,000 and an invitation to accept their award from the PCAH Honorary Chairman, First…

Brian Paz, he's a junior at Urban Assembly Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists and he spent his summer playing in bands, he shows advanced musicianship and improv skills and has expressed a desire to be a professional musician.

Instrument donation needed. Thank you. Nina Olson, Director of External Affairs, Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. www.afrolatinjazz.org

To contact me:…

What are, today, the conflicts surrounding the American Dream? This is something I've been working on since 2002. Ten years... I can hardly believe it's been so long! An invitation to dive in a young Black girl's soul, to find out what happens when she's born in a Latin American nation dreaming about Broadway's…

Join us Jan. 20 & 21 at Symphony Space to celebrate 10 years of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra! January 20 benefit concert to feature Arturo O'Farrill & GRAMMY Award WinningAfro Latin Jazz Orchestra with Ray Santos, Randy Weston, Dafnis Prieto, Claudia Acuna, Donald Harrison, Edmar Castaneda, and Fernando Otero,  Get your tickets today to this historic set of concerts.

Benefit proceeds go to support the nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance which is dedicated to the performance,…

As 2011 heads to its unavoidable end, I come here share very special new year's wishes. And I just can't help my hopeful nature to present itself in all its joyous glory, revoking all dispositions to the contrary. So...

With a tenderness as soft as this forehead kiss from Antônio Carlos Jobim to his predecessor Dorival Caymmi (who composed many of…

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The Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium Announces Appointment of

Stephanie Scherpf to New Post as Project Director

--September 12, 2011

The Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium is pleased to announce that Stephanie Scherpf has recently been…

The National Guild for Community Arts Education's latest publication, Engaging Adolescents: Building Youth Participation in the Arts  is now available free online.  It explores how to increase youth participation in the arts by infusing youth development practices into out-of-school time arts education programs. Learn how to engage…

Some things are just too valuable to use every day. For example, your family's finest place settings that only get taken out for major holidays. For the rest of the year, you use everyday plates--the ones that can be banged around a little without anyone taking notice. Or perhaps it's the pristine couch in the living room with a fitted clear plastic cover that always stays on except for the grandest occasions. It isn't too long before the fine place settings and covered couches loose their…

I am intrigued by the music numbers innovation found elsewhere in this community. It addresses issues that are indeed confusing to many, especially those just beginning to read traditional music notation. The traditional music notation system is frequently inadequate for representing contemporary genres of music, and a well-reasoned alternative is both hopeful and welcome.  I would like to take a few minutes to comment on one aspect of the music numbers system, that of representing the same…