Note: We no longer present this event because of Janine’s Santana injury and retirement. Thanks to Bret Saunders of the Denver Post for this article:“Jazz: Colorado’s Hugh Ragin playing Sun Ra” Here are a few excerpts: Hugh Ragin, as brilliant a trumpeter as he is a dedicated educator, greeted me at Englewood’s Colorado Jazz Workshop …
Category: music
Dec 29
Thanks to Denver Westword for writing about the Immersive Jazz-Art Series!
Thanks to the Denver Westword Staff for writing about tonight’s event at Lumonics: Immersive Jazz-Art Series: The Sun Ra ProjectFriday, December 29, 7 to 9:30 p.m.Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery, 800 East 73rd Avenue, #11 Lumonics, the mind-blowing and therapeutic light art created by the late Dorothy and Mel Tanner, was custom-made to mesh with …
Dec 23
Lumonics Then & Now
Photos (1974) of sections of the original Lumonics Light and Sound Theatre, Miami, FL that opened in 1969 and is now in Denver in its newest installation. This transformative total art experience that Dorothy and Mel Tanner originated provided a setting to release latent creative abilities and to stimulate powerful shifts in consciousness. Since Dorothy’s …
Nov 22
Music painted on the wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard again nearly 250 years later
The music room of the Ospedaletto is known for its remarkable acoustics. Marica S. Tacconi, CC BY-SA Imagine Lady Gaga or Elton John teaching at an orphanage or homeless shelter, offering daily music lessons. That’s what took place at Venice’s four Ospedali Grandi, which were charitable institutions that took in the needy – including orphaned and foundling …
