CITL
LUNCH
and LEARN presents:
“Creative Fidelity”
Friday
January 17th, 2014
12-1 p.m.
MSC – Little Theater
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Lunch Provided –
At
LeTourneau, we talk quite a bit about innovation, and improvisation is essential to
innovation. In fact, improvisation is the genesis of all we do. We thrill
when we see it in dance or hear it in music, but what does it mean for our own
work, life, and spiritual practice? Contrary to popular belief, improvisation is
never ‘flying by the seat of your pants’ or ‘winging it.’ Rather, to improvise
well necessitates mastery of craft, imagination, attention to the importance of
momentariness, and a commitment to living and working within the bounds of
community. This presentation by accomplished jazz clarinetist James
Falzone will encourage us to think in new ways about creativity and our shared
work of teaching and learning. A mix of music and conversation, this is
sure to be a memorable gathering.
The finest improvising clarinetist
in Chicago, who is also one of the top genre-crossing reedmen in the
country...his expertise and curiosity allow him to stretch from traditional to
modern in both classical music and jazz, with forays into folk and liturgical
music as well. Some artists like to blast through the walls that separate
genres. Falzone turns them into putty and lets each side seep through to the
other." Neil Tesser, Examiner
"James Falzone is not
sitting back contentedly watching his star ascend. As an accomplished
performer, composer, improviser, and educator, Falzone pursues a musical vision
rooted in the middle ground between the fully notated world of conservatory-trained
musicians and the improvisation-based energy of jazz and creative music. It is
a territory he explores with an omnivorous appetite for musical influences and
aesthetic directions, whether leading his quartet KLANG through a set of
contemporary jazz compositions at a late night haunt, directing liturgical
music with the Grace Chicago Consort, or composing for orchestra." Devin
Hurd, New Music Box
