Rollefson is currently an associate professor of popular music studies at the University College Cork, National University of Ireland. Flip the Script (which Rollefson defines as “to upend a situation and/or rap a text”) was recently published by the University of Chicago Press and is now available for purchase. Image by Kathleen Karn.Īfter graduating in 2009 with his PhD in historical musicology, Rollefson began writing Flip the Script, a book based on his dissertation, examining how the children of immigrants from the former colonies of Europe imagine hip hop as a way to both understand and voice their relationship to society. When composer and saxophonist Les Thimmig arrived in 1971, he changed it to a jazzier big band playing music more akin to the new Duke Ellington style. In 1968, the music school created an informal swing band, a “Big Band,” that played dance music of the 1930s and 1940s. Jazz at American colleges has a unique and colorful history, with UW-Madison no exception. Thimmig describing his early career in Chicago and New York City Episode 6, what it was like to gig in the 1960s. With university saxophonist and professor Les Thimmig, who arrived at UW-Madison in 1971, just as the jazz program was getting off the ground.Įpisode 1focuses on the origin of the UW Jazz Orchestra Episode 2, how jazz got started in American colleges Episode 3, jazz over the years at UW-Madison Episode 4, descriptions of the six UW Jazz Ensembles. “We don’t want THAT word uttered in OUR school”: Listen to our audio stories about the history of jazz at UW-Madison and at American colleges. For more information about ticketing and parking options, click here. You may also purchase in person or at the door. The UW High School Honors Jazz Band is an auditioned 18-member big band for high school students from about a dozen Madison-region schools who are looking for an additional opportunity to perform advanced jazz repertoire. Ticketed concert: $15 adults, $5 non-music majors. Friday, April 27: Marquis Hill with the UW Jazz Orchestra and the UW High School Honors Jazz Band.Thursday, April 26: Marquis Hill with a faculty jazz quartet led by pianist and Director of Jazz Studies Johannes Wallmann with Les Thimmig, saxophones Nick Moran, bass and Matt Endres, drums.Tuesday, April 24: Marquis Hill with the UW Jazz Composers Group and the UW Contemporary Jazz Ensemble.UW’s Jazz Week 2018 features three concerts: Watch Mike’s announcement to the band, and view images and read stories on the Badger Band website. “No, really, it was going to happen sooner or later, and I didn’t want to stay on too long.” “I wanted to go before somebody told me to go,” he quips. Leckrone, 82, has not decided on future plans and says there is no significance to the timing. The university will conduct a national search for a new director. “Any other talk, any other planning - that came second.” “I wanted the band to know first,” he says. This is Leckrone’s 50th year leading “The Badger Band.” He made his decision a few weeks ago but delayed sharing it publicly until he could meet with students. Students were visibly moved, linking arms and joining with him to sing “Varsity.” He made the announcement to the band following rehearsal. Michael Leckrone, longtime director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Marching Band, announced today that he will step down at the end of the 2018-19 academic year. Cook, Director of the Mead Witter School of Crook, Diversity Advocate for the Mead Witter School of J/ by Eric Murtaugh We do not all experience the world in the same way, as these police murders make clear, but we do share it, and we wish to share it well. Please feel free to reach out to the undersigned with thoughts, feelings, and suggestions. Especially, we affirm our commitment to dismantling the structures that perpetuate racial disparities both inside and outside the School of Music. We offer our sympathy in anger and grief, our love for those who wish to accept it, and our ears and shoulders for those who may need them. We also stand in solidarity with those who are protesting anti-Black injustice in all its forms: not only the most blatant forms like police murders, but also disproportionate rates of incarceration, disparities in healthcare and education, and myriad other structural inequities. We feel that it is a matter of human dignity and duty to express our outrage and stand with our Black community members including students, faculty, and staff. Though we are saddened, we cannot claim shock: this country’s history is laced with anti-Black violence. The Mead Witter School of Music is immensely saddened by the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Tony Robinson and countless others.
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