Triad Arts with David Ford Secrest Artists Series presents The Wayne Shorter QuartetSeptember 13, 2012Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter is truly a living legend. In the 1950s he played with and composed for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. In the 60s he went on to join Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet along with pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. Mr. Shorter co-founded the ground breaking jazz fusion band Weather Report, and he’s recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader. Wayne Shorter is also one of today’s leading composers. Many of his jazz tunes like Footprints, Speak No Evil and Infant Eyes have become standards, and he’s currently working on commissions by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Next summer, Wayne Shorter and his quartet will be celebrating his 80th birthday at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, but next week, they’ll be right here in the Triad for a rare performance in Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest University campus featuring pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade. The Secrest Artists Series concert is Thursday night, September 20, at 7:30pm. It’s a fundraiser for the Amazon Aid Foundation and Acre Care with a portion of the ticket sales going to Amazon Aid.
The concert and fundraiser is presented in conjunction with the WFU Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES), the Office of Sustainability, the Department of Music, the Humanities Institute, 88.5 WFDD, and the WFU Office of the Provost.
There’ll be lots of pre and post-concert events as well, beginning with a jazz clinic and workshop with members of the quartet on Wednesday, September 19, at 3:30pm in Brendle Recital Hall, and WFU students and jazz educators and musicians from other regional jazz programs will participate. At 5:30pm National Geographic’s Sam Abell will give a photography lecture on the rain forest in Kulynch Auditorium in the Byrum Center, and at 4:00pm in DeTamble in Tribble Hall it's the Humanities Institute’s Karen Pinkus and her talk titled No Return: The Humanities Confronting Climate Change. On Thursday night at 6:40pm, Secrest presents its Signature Pre-performance Talk in the Balcony Room of Wait Chapel. The speaker will be WFU Associate professor of Music Jacqui Carrasco (wife of TAUC host David Ford). And on Friday, Sep. 21, at 7:00pm in the Byrum Center there will be a documentary film screening of Amazon Gold preceded by Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability Director and Professor of Biology Miles Silman.
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Triad Arts Archives
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September 10, 2009: Winston-Salem Symphony Season Preview (Part I)
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September 9, 2009: Twin City Stage: Moonlight & Magnolias
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September 8, 2009: UNCG School of Music: Collage Concert 2009
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September 7, 2009: City Arts : Music Education Programs
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September 4, 2009: TAW 090904
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September 3, 2009: New River Blues Festival
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September 2, 2009: Open Dream Ensemble: Dream Machines II
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September 1, 2009: Winston-Salem Symphony Season Preview (Part II)
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August 31, 2009: Open Dream Ensemble: Dream Machines
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August 28, 2009: TAW 090828
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August 27, 2009: Music on the Mountaintop: Uncle mountain
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August 26, 2009: Indian Classical Chamber Orchestra (part I)
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August 25, 2009: Play the Game
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August 24, 2009: Summer on Trade: Martha Bassett Band
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August 21, 2009: TAW 090821
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August 20, 2009: SciWorks Museum: An African Odyssey
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August 19, 2009: Delta Arts Center: Vandorn Hinnant
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August 18, 2009: Carolina Summer Music Festival
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August 17, 2009: Music on the Mountaintop
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August 14, 2009: Andrea Reese, Ann Grimaldi and Music on the Mountain Top
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August 13, 2009: Andrea Reese
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August 12, 2009: Weatherspoon Art Museum: New Art/New Audiences
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August 11, 2009: Music on the Mountaintop
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August 10, 2009: Fitness by the Fountain
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August 7, 2009: MUSEP: Songs of Water & Kwame Dawes: Wisteria at the National Black Theatre Festival
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August 6, 2009: Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica
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August 5, 2009: Muddy River Jazz Band
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August 4, 2009: SECCA: Kianga Ford's Story of This Place (part II)
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August 3, 2009: MUSEP: Songs of Water
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July 31, 2009: NC Black Theatre Festival, SECCA & W-S Symphony
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