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Marcus Shelby
Marcus Shelby (born February 2, 1966, in Anchorage, Alaska)Jones, Kenneth"Marcus Shelby Keeps Jazz Orchestra Rolling". MTV, December 21, 2000. is an American bass player, composer and educator best known for his major works for jazz orchestra, ''Port Chicago'', ''Harriet Tubman'',Hamlin, Jesse"Marcus Shelby marries lyrical life of Harriet Tubman with jazz". ''San Francisco Chronicle'', October 15, 2007. ''Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'', and ''Beyond the Blues: A Prison Oratorio''.Hamlin, Jesse"Marcus Shelby’s musical suite on prison industry". ''San Francisco Chronicle'', September 2, 2015. He has led the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra since 2001 and has recorded with artists as diverse as Ledisi and Tom Waits. He has contributed numerous musical compositions to works created in collaboration with dance ensembles and theater artists ranging from California Shakespeare Theater to Intersection for the Arts. Background When Shelby was five, his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the List of cities in Alaska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it contains nearly 40 percent of the state's population. The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 398,328 in 2020, accounting for more than half the state's population. At of land area, the city is the List of cities in the United States by area, fourth-largest by area in the U.S. Anchorage is in Southcentral Alaska, at the terminus of the Cook Inlet, on a peninsula formed by the Knik Arm to the north and the Turnagain Arm to the south. First settled as a tent city near the mouth of Ship Creek, Alaska, Ship Creek in 1915 when construction on the Alaska Railroad began, Anchorage was incorporated as a city in November 1920. In September 1975, the City of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Institute Of The Arts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the visual art, visual and performing arts. It offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. The school was first envisioned by many benefactors in the early 1960s including Nelbert Chouinard, Walt Disney, Lulu Von Hagen, and Thornton Ladd. History CalArts was originally formed in 1961, as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute (founded 1921) and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (founded 1883). Both of the formerly existing institutions were going through financial difficulties, and the founder of the Art Institute, Nelbert Chouinard, was terminally ill. Walt Disney was longtime friends with both Chouinard and Lulu May Von Hagen, the chair of the Conservatory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** Georgia House of Representatives, The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. * January 15 – 1966 Nigerian coup d'état: A bloody military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. * January 17 ** The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQED Inc
KQED may refer to: * KQED (TV), a PBS member station in San Francisco * KQED-FM KQED-FM (88.5 MHz) is a listener-supported, non-commercial public radio station in San Francisco, California. It is simulcast on KQEI-FM (89.3 MHz) in the Sacramento metropolitan area. The parent organization is KQED Inc., which also owns tw ..., an NPR member station in San Francisco * KQED Inc., the parent organization of KQED (TV) and KQED-FM See also * * WQED (other) * QED (other) {{Call sign disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in ''The West Wing'' (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series '' Nurse Jackie'' (2009–15), and U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show '' For the People'' (2018–19). Smith is a recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2013). In 2015 she was selected as the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2016, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Theatre Arts. She is the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University. Early life Smith was born in 1950 into an African-American family in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Anna Rosalind (née Young), an elementary school principal, and Deaver Young Smith Jr., a coffee merchant. She has four younger siblings. She started attending sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notes From The Field
''Notes from the Field'' (also known as ''Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education'' and '' Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, The California Chapter'') is a 2015 play, which was written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. The play was first presented by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, before touring and being adapted into a television movie. It discusses issues revolving around the themes such as race, class and America's school-to-prison pipeline, to mention a few. Background The play is drawn from more than 200 interviews with students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in the school-to-prison pipeline. Smith (the author/writer of the play) references several real-life events throughout the play, such as the death of Freddie Gray and an incident where a 15-year-old black girl was restrained by police. Structure The play consists of two acts: during the first act, Smith introduces the people in the school-to-prison pipeline, acting as each character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission Local
''Mission Local'' is a bilingual local independent online news site that also publishes a semiannual printed paper that covers the Mission District of San Francisco. Early history ''Mission Local'' began as a hyperlocal project of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism , UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, focusing on San Francisco's Mission District. As some of the mainstream newspapers in San Francisco were shrinking and downsizing, it was believed that local media sites might fill some of the holes in reporting that were being left. The new media site was in fact also a new experiment in hyperlocal journalism. With funding from the Ford Foundation, it was launched in 2008, purposely aimed at covering the underserved neighborhood of the Mission. Berkeley Professor Lydia Chavez was its founder. It is one of the few university projects that has been turned into a fully functioning community news site. Many young journalists have worked and trained at this media news s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Community Music Center
The San Francisco Community Music Center is a nonprofit music school located in San Francisco, California, United States, US. The CMC is the oldest community arts organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. The school's stated mission is to make "high quality music accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, regardless of financial means." History The Community Music Center was founded in 1921 by Gertrude Field, evolving from her Dolores Street Girls Club. The main branch has remained in the same building in San Francisco's Mission District, San Francisco, Mission District since the founding of the school. In 1983, the CMC opened a second branch in San Francisco's Richmond District, San Francisco, Richmond District. In 2012, the CMC purchased the property next door to the school's main building in the Mission District, in order to provide Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, ADA-compliant accessibility and double the number of students. In November 2019, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Arts Commission
The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) is the City agency that champions the arts as essential to daily life by investing in a vibrant arts community, enlivening the urban environment and shaping innovative cultural policy in San Francisco, California. The commission oversees Civic Design Review, Community Investments, Public Art, SFAC Galleries, The Civic Art Collection, and the Art Vendor Program. History The commission was established in 1932 as "The San Francisco Art Commission". It was primarily founded to keep the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony employed during Great Depression in the United States by funding low-cost concerts. This has led to a popular run of low-cost San Francisco Pops concerts by Arthur Fiedler. They created the Visual Arts commission in 1948. The Commission ran the San Francisco Arts Festival from 1946 to 1986. The festival was usually held in the Civic Center. The Commission created the Neighborhood Arts Program in 1967. They were early fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (also known as Yerba Buena Arts & Events, and YBGF) is an admission-free performing arts festival held in San Francisco, California. During the summer months, May to October, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival produces concerts and performances including music, dance, theater, circus and children's programs. All programs take place in the outdoor spaces of Yerba Buena Gardens in the South of Market, San Francisco district. History Yerba Buena Gardens Festival was founded in 2000 by Mario Garcia Durham with support from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency in order to fulfill the cultural programming mission of the outdoor spaces at Yerba Buena Gardens. The organization is "dedicated to enhancing the vitality and quality of life in the Bay Area through the performing arts." Linda Lucero has been the Executive/Artistic Director since 2003. Programs The core program of YBGF is a six-month season of admission-free performing arts events. Genres presented i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broun Fellinis
Broun is a surname. It is the Middle English and Scots spelling of Brown. Notable people with the surname include: *Agnes Broun (1732–1820), mother of Scottish poet Robert Burns *Alex Broun (born 1965), Australian playwright and screenwriter *Dauvit Broun (born 1961), Scottish historian *Elizabeth Broun (born 1946), American museum director *Frank Broun (1876–1930), Australian politician *Heywood Broun (1888–1939), American journalist *Heywood Hale Broun (1918–2001), American journalist, son of Heywood Broun * Hob Broun (1950–1987), American author * Jeremy Broun, British furniture designer and maker, writer, film maker and musician *John Allan Broun (1817–1879), Scottish scientist who worked on magnetism in India * Jorge Broun (born 1986), Argentine professional footballer * Maurice Broun (1906–1979), American ornithologist and naturalist *Paul Broun (born 1946)), US Congressman from Georgia *Peter Broun (1797–1846), first Colonial Secretary of Western Australia * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black/Note
Black Note were an American jazz ensemble formed in 1991. The band released four albums, on Columbia Records, Impulse! Records, Red Records and World Stage. They won first prize at the John Coltrane Young Artist Competition in 1991. Discography * ''43rd & Degnan'' (World Stage, 1991) * ''L.A. Underground'' (Red Records, Red, 1993 [1994]) * ''Jungle Music'' (Columbia Records, Columbia, 1994) * ''Nothin' But The Swing'' (Impulse! Records, Impulse!, 1995 [1996])Group members *Marcus Shelby - bass *Willie Jones III - drums *Eric Reed (musician), Eric Reed - piano *Kenneth Crouch - piano *Ark Sano - piano *Richard Grant (musician), Richard Grant - trumpet *Gilbert Castellanos - trumpet *James Mahone - alto sax *Phil Vieux - tenor sax *Robert Stewart (saxophonist), Robert Stewart - tenor sax Guest music ...
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