{"id":421,"date":"2019-07-17T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/news-archives\/glaspertoperformwithwcsujazzcombos\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:18:18","slug":"glaspertoperformwithwcsujazzcombos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/glaspertoperformwithwcsujazzcombos\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-nominated artist to perform with WCSU jazz combos"},"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><strong>DANBURY, CONN. <\/strong>\u2014  Grammy-nominated pianist Robert Glasper will join the Western Connecticut State University jazz combos for a performance at 8 p.m. on <strong>Friday, Dec. 3<\/strong>, in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the university\u2019s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. Tickets will be $15. Senior citizens, students, and WCSU faculty and staff will be admitted for $10. Tickets are available at www.wcsu.edu\/tickets or by calling (203) 837-TIXX.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Glasper, a 32-year-old native of Houston, Texas, is the leader of the Robert Glasper Trio, an acoustic group, as well as the electric hip-hop Robert Glasper Experiment. He was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award in the Best Urban\/Alternative Performance category for \u201cAll Matter\u201d with Bilal. Glasper has garnered the respect of his fellow musicians. In a May 2008 Blindfold Test for Down Beat magazine, a fellow pianist instantly identified Glasper and praised him as a \u201cfantastic musician,\u201d pinpointing characteristics of his unique style: \u201ca harmonious maze, but also an insistent rhythm, certain turns and filigrees and ornaments, some of them sort of gospelish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Begian, coordinator of jazz studies at Western spoke of the importance of Glasper\u2019s visit. <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving Robert Glasper perform with WCSU jazz students is particularly interesting as he represents one of the younger guest artists we\u2019ve had in a while,\u201d Begian said. \u201cI think our students will benefit from seeing someone close to their age play on such a high level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Begian at (203) 837-8637.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em> <br \/>&#013;<br \/>\n  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 \/>&#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 Grammy-nominated pianist Robert Glasper will join the Western Connecticut State University jazz combos for a performance at 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3, in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the university\u2019s &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-421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}