The Makanda Project featuring Dee Alexander - 7:00 CONCERT
Fri, Sep 27
|Merrimans' Playhouse
Program includes compositions by Dee Alexander, orchestrated for the large ensemble, along with McIntyre pieces from the group’s repertoire - songs with lyrics, improvised solos within the unique forms of McIntyre’s compositions, free improvisation and using the voice as a color in the horn section.
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Merrimans' Playhouse, 401 E. Colfax Ave., Suite 135, South Bend, IN,46617
Guests
About the Event
TICKETS are $20 General / $10 Student.
THIS CONCERT OPPORTUNITY WILL BE TWO SEPARATE TIMES: 7:00 performance and 9:00 performance.
These concert performances are sponsored by WETF, 105.7 FM, The Jazz Station. South Bend's very own 24-7 JAZZ, via South Bend radius and streamed worldwide on the web!
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The Makanda Project, based in Boston, was started in 2005 to explore the previously unrecorded compositions of Makanda Ken McIntyre (1931-2001). Dr. McIntyre, who also made major contributions as a multi-instrumentalist and educator, was a prolific composer with a distinctive voice and a unique gift for doing unexpected things with very musical results. He recorded 75 ofnhis compositions, and, upon his passing, another 350 were found that had not been recorded or, in most cases, performed in public. Makanda Project leader and pianist John Kordalewski, a former McIntyre student, has arranged over 60 of these pieces for the group’s 10-member horn section, and this music is…