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April 19 - Guitar Week-Blues & Jazz Bargains /John Wilkins- Faculty Guitarist
John Wilkins presents jazz with a Spring Theme for his quartet. Then Guitar faculty
Mike Williams leads a quartet, with faculty mbmebers Danny Morris, bass and Casey
Scheuerell, drums, performing blues and jazz originals by Williams and pianist David
Maxwell.

April 20 - Guitar Week-Guitar Night - Five of Berklee’s top rock, jazz, blues, and
fusion student guitarists will be featured individually and collectively in a fast paced
program of covers and originals. Five all-star student rhythm sections will assist in
the Guitar Department’s biggest annual event.

April 22 - Spirit Song with Vocal Summit/Chichester Psalms by Leonard
Bernstein - Under the direction of faculty member Bob Stoloff, Berklee’s Vocal
Summit presents original music in many musical idioms including jazz, folk,
classical and spontaneous improvisations by composers Neuza Teixeira, Andy Rozas,
Megan Gass and Richard Meffley. Then the Berklee Concert Choir, under the
direction of Voice faculty Anne Peckham, will perform Chichester Psalms by
Leonard Bernstein, commissioned by the Cathedral of Chichester in Sussex England
for their 1965 Music Festival. This performacne will feature organ, harp and
percussion accompaniment and the choir will sing in Hebrew with a solo quartet
and boy alto.

April 25 - Singers’ Showcase - In honor of Berklee’s 50th anniversary the Yo Team
presents a tribute to fifty years of music from the forties up until to present day.
This concert will feature some of the college’s finest student vocalists, instrumental-
ists, and arrangers performing music of artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Andrews
Sisters , Fats Domino, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Beatles, The Supremes, Elton
John, Donna Summer, Toni Braxton, Stevie Wonder, and K.D. Lang.

April 29 - Chord Scale Madness/Lin Biviano Big Band Jazz Ensemble- Under
the direction of Jazz Composition department faculty member Jackson Schultz, some
of the strongest student arrangements from the “Voicings Derived from Chord
Scales” course will be performed by a large ensemble. Then Ensemble department
faculty member Lin Biviano presents big band jazz in the style of the Maynard
Ferguson Band with arrangements and compositions of Don Sebesky, Slide Hamp-
ton Willie Maiden, Ernie Wilkins and Biviano.

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