Howard University Department of Theatre Arts Kicks off it's 60th Anniversary Season w/ Charles Fullers' A SOLDIERS PLAY Oct. 6-9, 13-16

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Humanity and the Importance of Jazz

"God has brought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create - and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music.

Modern Jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.

It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of "racial identity" as a problem for a multi-racial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls.

Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down. And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these."~~~ Dr. Martin Luther King

HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Ira Aldridge

60th Anniversary Season

HOWARD UNIVERSITY

DIVISION OF FINE ARTS

DEPARTMENT of THEATRE ARTS

PRESENTS.....

HOWARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS

KICKS OFF ITS 60^TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON WITH

CHARLES FULLERS’

A SOLDIER’S PLAY

The Department of Theatre Arts at Howard University is pleased to announce the presentation of A SOLDIER’S PLAY, written byCharles Fuller, directed by Emmy Award Winning Actor Al Freeman, Jr. A SOLDIER’S PLAY as the first production of its 60^th Anniversary Production Season to be performed in the Ira Aldridge Theater, October 6 – 9, 13 – 16, 2010 at 7:30pm; October 9, 16, 2010 at 2:30pm. The 60^th Anniversary Gala Night Reception is scheduled for October 9, 2010 at 6:30pm. Author Charles Fuller received the Pulitzer Prize for this monumental work that presents a compelling view of life in a segregated US military unit in 1944. Fuller’s play interweaves threads of social, political and class biases along with other on the surface, at first glance seemingly benign, cherished beliefs that bite and sting and get passed along to infect succeeding generations.

These were though provoking ideals in 1982 but, they were also perhaps prescient and resonating in our time, the dawning age of Obama.

James E. Cheek, Jr., will portray the poignant role of Sergeant Vernon C. Waters. Cheek is the son of former Howard University President, Dr. James E. Cheek, Sr.

A SOLDIER’S PLAY previews October 5, 2010 at 7:30pm. Opening/Press Night is October 6, 2010 at 7:30pm.

Performances are scheduled for October 6-9, 13-16, 2010 at 7:30pm, October 9, 16, 2010 at 2:30pm. Tickets are $15.00 general admission and $10.00 for students/senior citizens. Tickets may be purchased at the Ira Aldridge Theater Box Office or by calling [phone] begin_of_the_skype_highlighting [phone] end_of_the_skype_highlighting. The Gala Night Reception and Show,

October 9 at 6:30pm, $20.00 ticket. Additional information about A SOLDIER’S PLAY can be obtained by calling [phone].

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WASHINGTON (July 16, 2010) – The National Association for Music Education (MENC) recently announced that Fred Irby, III, professor of Music, director of

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Herbie Hancock, Joe Williams and Fred Irby, III at the 1995 Kennedy Center Honors Gala

Dr. David Baker, Dr. Willie Hill, the great Conrad Johnson, Dr. Frederick Tillis and Fred Irby, III at 1979 MENC convention in Washington DC

DC pianist John Malachi, the great pianist Art Tatum and trumpeter Russell Jaquet

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The HUJE created The Benny Golson Jazz Master Award in

1996 to honor the legacy of Howard University Alumnus Benny Golson.

Dr. Golson, jazz composer and saxophonist, is the composer of the following jazz standards:

Killer Joe, Along Came Betty, Blues March, I Remember Clifford,

Stablemates, and others. The Benny Golson Jazz Master Award has been awarded to the following giants of jazz:

The Benny Golson Jazz Master Award has been awarded to the following giants of jazz:

2010 The Thelonious Monk Institute for Jazz

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2009 Billy Taylor

2009 McCoy Tyner

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2008 Cecil Bridgewater

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2002 Marcus Belgrave

2002 Jimmy Heath

2002 Frederick C. Tillis

2001 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.

2001 Yusef A. Lateef

2001 Larry Ridley

2001 William "Keter" Betts

2000 Donald Byrd

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1999 Clark Terry

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