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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April 15, 2010: Community Theatre of Greensboro: 60 Years of Broadway!
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April 14, 2010: John Nygren
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April 13, 2010: University of North Carolina School of the Arts: Mahler's Symphony No. 2
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April 12, 2010: Poet Joe Mills: Love and Other Collisions
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April 9, 2010: TAW 100409
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April 8, 2010: UNCSA School of Music: Emerson String Quartet
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April 7, 2010: Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance: The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife
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April 6, 2010: 2010 RiverRun International Film Festival
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April 5, 2010: The 6th Annual Pilot Mountain Dulcimer Festival with Ken Bloom
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April 1, 2010: Benyaro
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March 31, 2010: Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County:cityofthearts.com
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March 30, 2010: Reynolda House Museum of American Art: William Christenberry
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March 29, 2010: Esterhazy
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March 26, 2010: TAW 100326
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March 25, 2010: Pianist Peter Kairoff
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March 24, 2010: Reynolda House presents Songs in the Rear View Mirror
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March 23, 2010: Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra
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March 22, 2010: Appalachian Summer Festival
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March 19, 2010: TAW 100319
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March 18, 2010: Arts for Life: Healing Meals
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March 17, 2010: Weatherspoon Art Museum: Leonardo Drew
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March 16, 2010: Music for a Great Space (part II)
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March 15, 2010: Music for a Great Space (part I)
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March 12, 2010: TAW 100312
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March 11, 2010: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: Educational Outreach
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March 10, 2010: Winston-Salem Symphony: Miraculous Mandolin
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March 9, 2010: Lexington Youth Theatre: Seussical the Musical
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March 8, 2010: Twin City Stage: "All Shook Up"
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March 5, 2010: TAW 100305
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March 4, 2010: Piedmont Jazz Alliance: pianist Amina Figarova
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