By now, the Charles Lloyd Quartet concert at Wesleyan's Crowell Concert Hall this coming Friday night (1/28/11) should be sold out. The ensemble's new ECM CD, "Mirror", is a masterful blend of spirituals, jazz, popular song and world music.
However, there is an opportunity (and a rare one at that) to hear Mr. Lloyd in conversation with Adjunct Associate Professor of Music (and director of the Wesleyan Big Band) Jay Hoggard on Thursday at 4:15 p.m. in the CFA Hall (formerly the CFA Cinema.) The event, titled "A Conversation About Music and Spirituality", is free and open to the public. One hopes that the weather isn't so bad that the musician and composer Lloyd is waylaid.
For more information, call the Box Office at 860-685-3355.
"... I want to transform things and make this a blissful place. I dream of the day when man can live in harmony. There's still all that ugliness out there and I want to wipe it out with beauty..." - Charles Lloyd ("Soundtrack" lp cover, 1969).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the note about the Thursday event, which should be very interesting. I've been listening to Lloyd from several eras; he's a truly great musician, and we're fortunate that he's performing here.