Rehearsing for Jesus Jazz Jam Performance

Pianist/Composer Carolyn J. Anderson and Delores Fisher

rehearsing poetry collaboration for Jesus Jazz Jam

Photo by:Lawrence C Gaskin "The Prince O' Melody"

Working with Carolyn J. Anderson is really exciting-a summer of music and I get to do my poetry! This seasonal tryin' to do my thang . . . preparation for upcoming performances while synchronizing rehearsal time with teaching feels like regular semester living at SDSU (Africana Studies Dept). The actuality of being a performer and community based educator goes well beyond in-class sharing around a seminar table. (Humbly remembering scholar virtuoso clarinetist Dr. Marion Leibowitz's cautionary nurturing during my Professional Studies course at SDSU with a deeper humility as this summer progresses.) http://music.sdsu.edu/images/mlieb.gif

Thankfully, Pastor Bryan at Trinity Lutheran Church http://www.tlcsd.org/ is a theologian/musician/teacher/scholar. (He plays a really tuneful trumpet). Our on -site time feeds into and helps balance our off-site reality.

One future program music project being formulated by Carolyn J. Anderson is Jesus Jazz Jam. Instrumentalists, dancers, rappers, spoken word poets, performance artists, painters, drawers, and singers are welcome to participate. PR will be out soon.

Oh, by the way. . .in the photo above, we were rehearsing an excerpt from my poem "Billie Holiday" http://www.dreamagic.com/cgi-bin/PoetryGen.cgi?author=Delores_Fisher&html=fisher6&title=Billie_Holiday&number=0020

Music and Summer 2012,
Delores Fisher

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