{"id":1058,"date":"2019-07-17T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/news-archives\/wcsutopresentjazzconcert\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:19:11","slug":"wcsutopresentjazzconcert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wcsutopresentjazzconcert\/","title":{"rendered":"WCSU to present jazz concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"sharingTools\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/sharingtools.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"breadcrumb\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/breadcrumb.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n    &#013;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0\"><strong>DANBURY, CONN. <\/strong>\u2014  The first jazz concert of the spring semester presented by Western Connecticut State University\u2019s School of Visual and Performing Arts will be at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, in the Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the university\u2019s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">&#013;<br \/>\n    Performers will include Frankensax and the WCSU Jazz Orchestra, directed by Jamie Begian, coordinator of WCSU\u2019s jazz studies; and the WCSU Jazz Ensemble directed by Dave Scott. The Jazz Ensemble will feature traditional works with faculty and student arrangements. <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0\">Frankensax will perform Begian\u2019s composition \u201cYiorgo\u2019s Dance of Love\u201d and some be-bop classics. The Jazz Orchestra will feature senior pianist\/composer Darren Litzie\u2019s arrangement of \u201cAu Private\u201d and Begian\u2019s works \u201cSorry Officer,\u201d \u201cMarcy Song\u201d and \u201cTayloration One.\u201d <br \/>&#013;<br \/>\n      The concert will be free and the public is invited; donations to support the music department will be accepted. <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">&#013;<br \/>\n    For more information, call (203) 837-8350.<br \/>&#013;<br \/>\n   \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England\u2019s best small private universities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p \/>&#013;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0\">\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebookShare\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/facebookshare.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;\n        <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; DANBURY, CONN. \u2014 The first jazz concert of the spring semester presented by Western Connecticut State University\u2019s School of Visual and Performing Arts will be at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, in the Ives Concert &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1058","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}