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DukeChapel. 12.4K subscribers. Subscribed. Like. 420 views Streamed 1 day ago. As part of Duke University’s Centennial Celebration, the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, Duke Arts,...
As we prepare to celebrate Mary Lou’s birthday in May, we want to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first ever festival - and its very Pittsburgh roots with global reach. The idea of a Jazz Festival in Pittsburgh started much earlier with planning led by Mary Lou Williams and many others that went on for several years.
Mary Lou Williams, Duke's first artist-in-residence and director of the jazz ensemble. (Design by Shaun King/Trinity Communications) This is a story about the impact of Duke history on cultural life, of significant and inspirational mentorship, and of a personal reckoning with dynamic people, spaces, organizations and operations ...
K.V. Turley, July 3, 2021. “It seemed that night that it all came to a head. I couldn’t take it any longer. So I just left — the piano, the money, all of it.”. It was in 1954, in the middle of a performance when the African American jazz composer and performer Mary Lou Williams unexpectedly exited a Paris stage.
From Mary Lou William's Zodiac Suite (1942-45). Each movement is dedicated to a particular musician -- Libra to Thelonious Monk. For me, the Zodiac Suite one...
Duke University. 48.7K subscribers. 6. 192 views 1 day ago #𝐃𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 #duke100. Anthony Kelley, Duke University Professor of the Practice of Music, makes incredible discovery of...
Chicagoland. Jazz pianist, composer Mary Lou Williams focus of Loyola talk. By Michelle Martin | Staff writer. Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Mary Lou Williams in 1946. (William P. Gottlieb/Library of Congress)
