Even though the rain kept me from giving the entire speech I had prepared at Northwestern’s commencement, I wanted to make the full transcript and the audio available to you all.
Click here to download a PDF of the speech
Click here to listen to the complete audio MP3 of the speech
Wynton now is in Atlanta to rehearse with his quintet and members of Atlanta Simphony Orchestra.
On Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Woodruff Arts Center - Symphony Hall, they will perform music from the CDs “The Midnight Blues” and “Hot House Flowers”, featuring Wynton, Walter Blanding on saxophone, Dan Nimmer on piano, Carlos Henriquez on bass, and Ali Jackson on drums.
On July 20, Princeton professor Cornel West and Wynton sit down to discuss artists and the Civil Rights continuum with Carrie Mae Weems.
On Tuesday, May 06, 2008, Wynton will speak at VHA Leadership Conference 2008 in Philadelphia. The speech title will be:
Innovation and Jazz: A Talk with Music by Wynton Marsalis.
VHA is a national cooperative of leading not-for-profit health care organizations across the nation. VHA serves more than 1,400 hospitals and more than 21,000 non-acute care organizations, assisting these health care organizations with supply chain management and clinical improvement
On November 6, 2007 Wynton will speak in Toronto (Canada) for the Health Achieve 2007, an event organized by the Ontario Hospital Association.
At OHA HealthAchieve2007, he will share his creative insights with those who aim to sharpen their leadership skills, strengthen their competitive position, and achieve performance excellence. The keynote is entitled:
“Innovation and All that Jazz”
Hot Corporations Know How to Swing.
10:15 – 11:45 a.m., Rooms 105, 106 & 107, Constitution Hall, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West
Yesterday afternoon, Wynton spoke in Marciac for the official opening of the Jazz Festival. He was introduced by the producer Jean-Louis Guilhaumon. Here is the transcript of his speech:
Jazz music was born in New Orleans and really comes from the french part of New Orleans.
Because musicians…people who was slave, who played drums in Congo Square, and after the Louisiana purchase in 1804, there was always an attempt the keep them from playing.
On Monday, June 4, Wynton will participate in a conversation hosted by the Sixth & I History Synagogue in Washington DC.
Wynton and Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic, will discuss “Where Y’all At?: Jazz, Race and Culture” at 7:00 pm.
Cost of ticket is $6. The Sixth & I History Synagogue is located at 600 I Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20001.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is proudly associated with the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Chops, a documentary film directed by Bruce Broder that follows a Florida high school jazz band’s journey to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival.
Special press screenings will take place on: Thursday, April 26th at 10am, Clearview Chelsea West, theatre 1.
Following this screening, Wynton will participate in a Q&A session with the filmmakers.
Arts Advocacy Day was officially kicked off at a Congressional Arts Breakfast on Capitol Hill, organized by Americans for the Arts in conjunction with the Congressional Arts Caucus.
Now is possible to listen to Wynton’s speech for Arts Advocay Day.
(Right click the link to download the MP3 file from the event - 18:37 min. - 17 mb)
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