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Concurrent
Session IV



The Music of Laura Nyro
1108 Boylston Street, Room 317

This session will present the life and music of Laura Nyro—an
extremely talented and underappreciated songwriter/artist
whose songs were covered by major artists and producers

of the 1960s and ‘70s. Her songs were recorded by such
notables as: Three Dog Night; Blood, Sweat & Tears; the

5th Dimension; Barbra Streisand; and Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Her hits include “Wedding Bell Blues,” “Eli's Coming,” “And
When | Die,” “Stoney End,” and “Stone Soul Picnic,” to
name a few. Nyro worked with music moguls such as David
Geffen and Clive Davis. Her commitment to feminist ideas
was well ahead of her time. Even though her life ended at
age 49 because of ovarian cancer, she has been honored
many times by the music industry for her contributions to
songwriting, most recently by composer/arranger Billy Childs,
whose album was nominated in 2014 for three Grammys, with
the “New York Tendaberry” track featuring Renée Fleming
and Yo-Yo Ma winning a Grammy for best arrangement,
instrumental and vocals.

—Presented by: Tony Carbone

—Hosted by: Mary McClory

MRI Horn: Brass Pedagogy Informed by

Science
7 Haviland Street, Room 203

This session, through MRI films, will provide a window to
interior biomechanics that leads to ease and effortlessness in
brass playing and contributes to healthy, sustainable careers.
The presenter, a veteran French horn of the Cleveland
Orchestra and one of the elite subjects in the MRI Horn study
along with members of the Berlin Philharmonic, will show
how these advantageous interior movements are definitely
teachable and learnable. Participants will learn a pedagogy
that is truly informed by science, with new insights that
should not be ignored

—Presented by: Eli Epstein

—Hosted by: Jamie Davis-Ponce