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“GW Presents American Jazz”
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Sunday's @ 7 a.m.
“GW
Presents American Jazz” is a unique educational, cultural
and community radio project produced by the University in
association with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the Smithsonian
Associates and Clear Channel Communications.
This weekly program of music and conversation is broadcast
commercial free each Sunday at 7 a.m. on WWRC AM-1260 in Washington.
The program is hosted by 30-year radio veteran and noted jazz
expert Dick Golden and features the best in traditional jazz,
the stories behind the music, the voices of legendary artists
and composers, highlights of Kennedy Center performances and
the efforts of the talented students and faculty at GW and
the Duke Ellington School.
Pictured
at right is nine-time Grammy Award winner Tony Bennett, who
appeared on the Feb. 10, 2003, edition live from GW's Marvin
Center and the studios of WRGW,
the student-run radio station.
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• “GW
Presents American Jazz” Signs Two-Year Agreement to Join
XM Satellite Radio Programming READ
Crowds
of students and other jazz fans filled the hallways surrounding
the WRGW studios in the Marvin Center to see Tony Bennett
during a 90-minute live interview with host Dick Golden earlier
this year.
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About
the Horn:
The
illustration, by Al Hirschfeld, is a representation of Louis Armstrong’s
first horn, a coronet that he was given to play when he was a resident
of the Colored Waifs’ Home in New Orleans. Perhaps the world’s
preeminent caricaturist, Hirschfeld has hidden his daughter’s
name, Nina, in each of his illustrations since her birth. The number
adjacent to his signature refers to the number of “Nina’s”
in the drawing. As a special gift to the University, Hirschfeld
also inserted a pair of “GWU’s” in the horn.
In
Partnership With:
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
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Executive Producer of "American Jazz" is Michael Freedman
(read
biography).
©2004 The George Washington University Office of
University Relations, Washington, D.C.
Contact gwnews@gwu.edu
with questions and comments.
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