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Sincere thanks to Diane Karp for allowing us to use the lovely spaces at Santa Fe Art Institute.  Thank you, Michelle, for all your assistance. This is indeed a wonderful collaboration. 

WYNTON MARSALIS 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Presented by Outpost Productions

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

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WHAT'S HAPPENING?

   

 

Melding the art of performance and storytelling, actors Wesley “Wes” Studi (“Dances With Wolves,” “Last of the Mohicans” and a series of PBS movies based on Hillerman novels) and Kate Burton (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Alice in Wonderland” and numerous Broadway stage productions) will perform selections from famed Hillerman works such as “A Time Thief,” “Skinwalkers” and “The Great Taos Bank Robbery.”  The event takes place at the Lensic Performing Arts Center; tickets are $10.    

El Farol:  Ricardo Perez (Jazz a la Carta) has landed a fabulous gig!  Every Monday night starting at 8:30pm, Ricardo will be hosting a Musica Latina show at El Farol.  Awesome music and certainly some terrific dancing.  Congratulations and Best of Luck, Ricardo, we'll be there!

 

  

 

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* * * A Benefit for KSFR - Calling all our Artists * * *

 

KSFR would like to invite all KSFR Artists

(and "family" members who are Artists)

To an Art Show Opening Benefit for KSFR

 

Please consider donating a piece of your artwork

For a Sale and Auction to Benefit KSFR 101.1FM

  

Where:  TBD

What:  Artists Gallery Opening

Sale and Auction

 

Please Contact Linda@KSFR.org or 428-1379

for details and to participate

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"Can Jazz Be Saved?"

• by TERRY TEACHOUT  Wall Street Journal, New York - August 9, 2009

In 1987, Congress passed a joint resolution declaring jazz to be “a rare and valuable national treasure.” Nowadays the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis is taught in public schools, heard on TV commercials and performed at prestigious venues such as New York’s Lincoln Center, which even runs its own nightclub, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola.

Here’s the catch: Nobody’s listening.

No, it’s not quite that bad—but it’s no longer possible for head-in-the-sand types to pretend that the great American art form is economically healthy or that its future looks anything other than bleak.

The bad news came from the National Endowment for the Arts’ latest Survey of ­Public Participation in the Arts, the fourth to be conducted by the NEA (in participation with the U.S. Census Bureau) since 1982. These are the findings that made jazz musicians sit up and take ­notice:

• In 2002, the year of the last survey, 10.8% of adult Americans attended at least one jazz performance. In 2008, that figure fell to 7.8%.

• Not only is the audience for jazz shrinking, but it’s growing older—fast. The median age of adults in America who attended a live jazz performance in 2008 was 46. In 1982 it was 29.

• Older people are also much less likely to attend jazz performances today than they were a few years ago. The percentage of Americans between the ages of 45 and 54 who attended a live jazz performance in 2008 was 9.8%. In 2002, it was 13.9%. That’s a 30% drop in attendance.

• Even among ­college-educated adults, the audience for live jazz has shrunk significantly, to 14.9% in 2008 from 19.4% in 1982.

These numbers indicate that the audience for jazz in America is both aging and shrinking at an alarming rate. What I find no less revealing, though, is that the median age of the jazz audience is now comparable to the ages for attendees of live performances of classical music (49 in 2008 vs. 40 in 1982), opera (48 in 2008 vs. 43 in 1982), nonmusical plays (47 in 2008 vs. 39 in 1982) and ballet (46 in 2008 vs. 37 in 1982). In 1982, by contrast, jazz fans were much younger than their high-culture counterparts.

What does this tell us? I suspect it means, among other things, that the average American now sees jazz as a form of high art. Nor should this come as a surprise to anyone, since most of the jazz musicians that I know feel pretty much the same way. They regard themselves as artists, not entertainers, masters of a musical language that is comparable in seriousness to classical music—and just as off-putting to pop-loving listeners who have no more use for Wynton Marsalis than they do for Felix Mendelssohn.

Jazz has changed greatly since the ’30s, when Louis Armstrong, one of the ­supreme musical geniuses of the 20th century, was also a pop star, a gravel-voiced crooner who made movies with Bing Crosby and Mae West and whose records sold by the truckload to fans who knew nothing about jazz except that Satchmo played and sang it. As late as the early ’50s, jazz was still for the most part a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it. But by the ’60s, it had evolved into a challenging concert music whose complexities repelled many of the same youngsters who were falling hard for rock and soul. Yes, John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” sold very well for a jazz album in 1965—but most kids preferred “California Girls” and “The Tracks of My Tears,” and still do now that they have kids of their own.

Even if I could, I wouldn’t want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music. But there’s no sense in pretending that it didn’t happen, or that contemporary jazz is capable of appealing to the same kind of mass audience that thrilled to the big bands of the swing era. And it is precisely because jazz is now widely viewed as a high-culture art form that its makers must start to grapple with the same problems of presentation, marketing and audience development as do symphony orchestras, drama companies and art museums—a task that will be made all the more daunting by the fact that jazz is made for the most part by individuals, not established institutions with deep pockets.

No, I don’t know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they should like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle. If you’re marketing Schubert and Stravinsky to those listeners, you have no choice but to start from scratch and make the case for the beauty of their music to otherwise intelligent people who simply don’t take it for granted. By the same token, jazz musicians who want to keep their own equally beautiful music alive and well have got to start thinking hard about how to pitch it to young listeners—not next month, not next week, but right now.

   

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"KSFR is pleased to tell you about a new way to show your support of the station while getting a tax receipt at the same time. It's our new Car Donation Program. We'll take your unwanted vehicle, running or not and turn the proceeds into quality community programming. It's a win/win. Call 505-428-1257 to find out if your car qualifies or visit www.ksfr.org"

 

 

Thanks, Sean, for investigating details for this KSFR fund raising opportunity.

 

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    STAY TUNED:  Some BIG Changes for this Drive

 

FUND DRIVE PHONE - 505-428-1393 

Starting Sunday, September 20th  

 

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The NNMRF Board of Directors, along with Linda Highhill (George Weston was to particpate but due to extenuating circumstances was unable to attend), spent Friday and Saturday, August 28th and 29th at an extremely productive Strategic Planning Offsite meeting.  The inputs gathered from the Producers meetings and the Listeners forums provided the basis for much of the discussions.  Our facilitator, Dr. Marilyn Haring, kept us all on-task.  Plans are being developed and information will be forthcoming.  Stay tuned!  

  

 Northern New Mexico Radio Foundation Board of Directors

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And we all thank you - BILL - and the ENTIRE News Team! 

 

check out Bill's Blog Spot

 

 Here is the direct link - CLICK below:

 

The Survey will continue through the Fall Fund Drive and end on Monday, October 12th.  We'll draw several names from the survey participant pool for Flying Star Cafe gift certificates.

 

As of August 31st - 206 surveys have been completed.  

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Santa Fe City Counsel:  KSFR has entered into a new two-year contract with the Santa Fe City Counsel to provide on-air broadcasting of the City Counsil meetings held twice per month (Wednesdays at 6:00pm. No change in time or day.)

 

Santa Fe County Commission:  KSFR is finalizing a contract with the Santa Fe County Commission to broadcast one meeting per month.  Details will be announced.

 

 

August 20, 2009 - While giving the North Korean officials a tour of the biomass boiler room, Randy Grissom (Board) took time to answer questions from the Japanese media, including NHK, Nippon Television News, and TV Asahi America.

 

 

"On Aug. 20, Santa Fe Community College hosted a pair of North Korean officials, Minister Kim Myong Gil and Councilor Jong Ho Paek. The representatives took part in presentations from New Mexico renewable energy business leaders, a tour of the college’s wood-chip-fed biomass boiler and an enchilada lunch inside the SFCC Visual Arts Gallery.

SFCC President Sheila Ortego and Director of Sustainable Technologies Center Randy Grissom (Board) spent their day guiding the North Korean officials and fielding questions from the media. The North Korean representatives met with Gov. Bill Richardson the day before to discuss renewable energy, and perhaps a little politics, although Richardson would only respond by describing the talks as “very positive,” and telling local media, “I’m not giving any response, I’m not saying anything.”

The SFCC event was marked by a scrum of international and national media, including Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, Nippon News Network, TV Asahi America, CNN, and local reporters from KOAT, KOB, KRQE, Santa Fe New Mexican and Associated Press."

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WHADDYA READIN'?  We would like to share what you are currently reading - and your recommendations.  Hey - YOU - don't you ever read?

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SOMETHING GNU TO LISTEN TU: 

   

 

 

   

    Original Release Date: August 18, 2009

    Number of Discs: 1

    Label: Concord Records

    ASIN: B002FUI4B0  

 

 

 

 

 

  

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    "The Genius of Miles Davis: Explained!"

 

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 Backyard Fauna and Flora

  

 

 

"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."    - - - Mose Allison