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Let’s jazz it up, ’cause here’s another reason to love Berkeley: we have a program called “The Young Musicians Program” that “provides year-round, individualized instruction to musically gifted low-income students in grades four to 12 at no cost to their families.” Even cooler, this program just received a big donation boost from the estate of famous jazz pianist Earl Hines.
Hines, a jazz luminary who died in 1983, lived in Oakland for the last three decades of his life and was dedicated to furthering musical education. In addition to moolah, a collection of his compositions and memorabilia is also included in the gift, which will be donated to the campus musical library. The money portion will help pay for guest artists to come and teach the children in the program.
Hines was one of the most important jazz musicians of the ’30s and ’40s. He swung with all the cool cats (if that is the appropriate jazzy lingo). During that time, “Hines developed a style of playing florid linear melodic passages that had an inner musical logic in the right hand, while maintaining a steady rhythmic left hand, all performed with the characteristic jazz triplet subdivision of the pulse.”
We’re not entirely sure what that means, but it sounds amazing. And now his money is going on to help more musical prodigies. This donation deserves some serious jazz hands. JAZZ.
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Campus musicians receive gift from pianist Earl Hines’ estate [UC Berkeley News]
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