March 2005
Issue
15
In This
Issue:
* Alan Lomax Collection
* U.S. Army Europe Band
* Document Alert
The U.S. Consulate General in Krakow is pleased to invite for "The Land Where Blues Began" a presentation on Alan Lomax's collection by Don Fleming and Michael Taft of the Library of Congress.
Alan Lomax devoted himself to what he called "the deep river of song" - the African musical heritage in the Americas, which he recognized as a wellspring of creativity, innovation and cultural change in the United States. Between the 1930s and the '80s, Lomax traveled the American South and the Caribbean many times to chronicle Black American cultural life. By the time the project was over, fifty years of Black American music, stories and social commentary were a part of America's official archives. Today, those documents are a part of the Alan Lomax Archive of New York City and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington.
The presentation and lecture illustrated by films and music will be held on March 11 (Friday) at 1:00 p.m. at the Academy of Music in Katowice, Sala Teatralna, ul.Krasinskiego 27.
More information on:
Alan Lomax Archives: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax/
American Folklife Center: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/afc.html
Academy of Music: http://www.am.katowice.pl/
The United States Army Europe (USAREUR) Band will be
performing in Poland April 8-12. Performances will be held in:
Swidnica: April 8 at 7:00 p.m. at "Bolko" Club, Pl. Grunwaldzki 11
Katowice: April 9 at 7:00 p.m. at Miejski Dom
Kultury, ul. Gen. Hallera 28
Kielce:
April 11 at 7:00 p.m.
at Wojewodzki Dom Kultury, ul. ks. P. Sciegiennego 2
Siedlce: April 12 at 7:00
p.m. at Miejski Osrodek Kultury, ul. Sienkiewicza 63
The USAREUR Band was originally started in 1940. With its partner group, the United States Army Europe Soldiers' Chorus, it is currently the Army's third largest musical organization, the biggest outside of the United States, and the Army's premier musical ambassador in Europe. The band's jazz ensemble, "Soldiers of Swing" (S.O.S.) has made appearances at notable jazz festivals such as the Torgau International Jazz Festival (Germany), the North Sea Jazz Festival (the Netherlands), the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), and the Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy). The ensemble's repertoire includes traditional favorites from the golden age of big band music, up through the modern styles of today.
More information on U.S. Army Europe Band at: http://www.1perscom.army.mil/band/
Soloists in Krakow International Show:
SSG Prado, SGT Briscoe, SGT Neal, SFC Holland, SPC Stubbs U.S.
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