From john.a.horn at intel.com Sun Mar 1 18:48:13 2015 From: john.a.horn at intel.com (Horn, John A) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 02:48:13 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] Coconut Grove Reminder In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <31E5EEBE70B474419207FB83C01C03031BEC3438@FMSMSX110.amr.corp.intel.com> Dear DHS Band Boosters, Families & Friends, Coconut Grove, is coming up quickly.... March 7th, 2014 with doors opening at 5:30 PM at Emerson Junior High. * Tickets are still available and can be purchased online by March4th at www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/coconutgrove2015 or by contacting Jennifer Tan at thetanfamily at msn.com. * Businesses and families interested in donating or sponsoring can sign-up at the website www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/coconutgrove2015 or by contacting Jennifer Tan at thetanfamily at msn.com. Sponsorships and donations are due by March 4th. * Sign-up to contribute to the auction at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c084bacab2aa57-coconut * Sign-up to provide deserts that evening at www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0A4AAEA72BA64-2015/20742838 Coconut Grove is Davis High School Band's largest fundraising event of the year, supporting the annual band trip and the band in many different ways (e.g. sheet music, festival fees, instrument purchase and maintenance, audio system improvements). Join us in celebrating with the bands! Thank you, The Coconut Grove Gang -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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March 7th, 2014 with doors opening at 5:30 PM at Emerson Junior High. * Tickets are still available and can be purchased online by March4th at www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/coconutgrove2015 or by contacting Jennifer Tan at thetanfamily at msn.com. * Businesses and families interested in donating or sponsoring can sign-up at the website www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/coconutgrove2015 or by contacting Jennifer Tan at thetanfamily at msn.com. Sponsorships and donations are due by March 4th. * Sign-up to contribute to the auction at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c084bacab2aa57-coconut * Sign-up to provide deserts that evening at www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0A4AAEA72BA64-2015/20742838 Coconut Grove is Davis High School Band's largest fundraising event of the year, supporting the annual band trip and the band in many different ways (e.g. sheet music, festival fees, instrument purchase and maintenance, audio system improvements). Join us in celebrating with the bands! 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Her efforts to support music in local schools have also been of significant impact through her foundation 88 KEYS, which facilitates the donation of used pianos to K-12 music programs. Most recently, Downes directed the donation of a concert-quality Steinway Grand Piano to Davis Senior High School, through the generous gift of pianist and Mondavi Center volunteer John Cron. Downes will celebrate the arrival of this fine instrument with a special benefit recital featuring music from her new CD on the Steinway & Sons Records label, A Billie Holiday Songbook. Tuesday, March 31, 7pm Davis Senior High School Brunelle Performing Arts Center - 315 W. 14th Street, Davis $20 minimum donation at the door (includes concert admission and a signed CD) **************************************************************** In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Billie Holiday?s birth, Lara Downes offers A Billie Holiday Songbook, a deeply personal tribute to an icon of American music (Steinway & Sons Records) set for release April 27th. With radiant sensitivity and timeless intimacy, Downes performs the songs forever associated with Lady Day?s legendary interpretations ? drawing on her own classically-trained background and infusing it with a jazz sensibility to honor the American tradition of music ?beyond category?, in the words of the great Duke Ellington. Trained in the conservatories of San Francisco, Paris, Vienna and New York, Downes acknowledges that Holiday?s singing has been a lifelong influence. ?As a musician, I learned from Billie Holiday to make something completely personal when you make music,? she says. ?Something that is completely your own - maybe something unexpected, something indefinable, perhaps complicated, but beautiful. To take a chance. As the song says: But beautiful to take a chance, and if you fall, you fall. And I?m thinking I wouldn?t mind at all.? ?Loving attention to mood and color.? ? The New York Times ?A unique blend of musicianship and showmanship.? - NPR ?A balletic keyboard reverie, rendered with nuance and drama.? ? Washington Post Billie Holiday?s place in the pantheon of Jazz is unrivalled. She was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s with her soulful, unique singing voice and her ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music, making her a superstar of her time. Today, we remember Holiday for her masterpieces and her creativity and vivacity ? as well as the many demons which she fought - and Holiday?s poignant voice is still considered one of the greatest jazz voices of all time. Downes? pianistic re-imaginings of songs forever associated with Holiday, such as ?God Bless the Child,? ?Strange Fruit,? and ?But Beautiful? not only evoke the eternal artistry of Lady Day, but also place her unparalleled talent in a much larger context. ?My take on this music, as a classical pianist paying tribute to a jazz icon,? Downes explains, ?is also a tribute to the unique diversity of our American musical tradition ? a tradition which includes European concert music, the blues, jazz, folk, rock, and on and on ? evolving, absorbing the sounds of each successive generation to reflect the multifaceted complexity of American music. We come from so many different places and people, and our music is a synthesis of our complicated heritage and blended cultures.? Composer Jed Distler took Downes? intentions to heart in his arrangements, honoring both the original melodies and Holiday?s singular phrasing while harvesting elements from the patchwork styles of American piano music: ragtime, parlor music, stride, pop, gospel, classical and film music. He also brings the personalities of Holiday?s predecessors, contemporaries and descendants: Monk, MacDowell, Weill, Ellington, as well as Don Shirley, Billy Joel and Bernard Hermann. The result is an unforgettable experience that places Holiday?s spirit in soulful communion with the past, present and future of American music. A Billy Holiday Songbook will be available on the Steinway & Sons label on April 27, 2015. About Lara Downes American concert pianist Lara Downes has been described as ?an artist who walks both sides of the classical line in the most compelling and entertaining of ways? (Sirius XM), and her charismatic presence and unique ability to communicate with diverse audiences distinguish her as one of the most dynamic musicians of her generation. Born in San Francisco of Caribbean and Russian heritage, Downes began piano lessons at age 4, and later spent a decade studying and performing with her sisters in Europe, in what she calls a ?gypsy-like existence? that took the family from Paris to Venice, Vienna, Basel and Rome. Since making early debuts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Salle Gaveau Paris, Lara has appeared on the world?s greatest concert stages, winning over audiences at diverse venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Le Poisson Rouge, the Kennedy Center to Classical Revolution. Ms. Downes enjoys collaborations with noted artists from various genres, including legendary saxophonist and composer Benny Golson, who wrote his one classical composition, On Gossamer Wings, for Lara, which she has subsequently performed both at The Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. She has also collaborated with the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet, violinist Rachel Barton Pine, cellist Zuill Bailey, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Her performance projects have received support from prominent organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, and American Public Media. Downes? solo recordings have met with tremendous critical and popular acclaim. Her last solo CD, Exiles? Caf? (Steinway & Sons, 2013) topped the Billboard charts and was called ?ravishing? by Fanfare Magazine. Some Other Time (Steinway & Sons, 2014), her recent duo recording with cellist Zuill Bailey, debuted in the Billboard Top 10 and was called "luscious, moody and dreamy" by the New York Times. Lara is heard regularly on national radio programs, including NPR Music, MPR's Performance Today, WNYC's New Sounds, and WFMT?s Impromptu. Ms. Downes is the founder and director of The Artist Sessions, a pop-up concert series and documentary series featuring international soloists and ensembles. She is the producer and host of The Green Room, a radio program about the real lives of professional musicians, debuting in national distribution through the WFMT Network in Spring 2015. Lara also serves as Artist in Residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis. 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There are a few tickets available and you can still purchase them at the website www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/coconutgrove2015 or by contacting Jennifer Tan at thetanfamily at msn.com. Coconut Grove is Davis High School Band's largest fundraising event of the year, supporting the annual band trip, sheet music, festival fees, instrument purchases and more. Come support your band! Thank you, The Coconut Grove Gang -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 7088 bytes Desc: not available URL: From john.a.horn at intel.com Thu Mar 5 11:42:44 2015 From: john.a.horn at intel.com (Horn, John A) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 19:42:44 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] Can you help with decorations on Saturday Morning? Bring a bottle of wine for the auction? In-Reply-To: <00e001d0577c$0a371e50$1ea55af0$@gmail.com> References: <00e001d0577c$0a371e50$1ea55af0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <31E5EEBE70B474419207FB83C01C03031BEE7CDB@FMSMSX110.amr.corp.intel.com> Band members, families, and friends, On Saturday morning, we will be transforming the Emerson MPR into a beautiful space for our Coconut Grove event. Decorating will start around 8 am and continue for several hours (3pm?). Please come and help when you have time on Saturday. This would also be a great time to bring a bottle of wine for our wine cellar auction item! Sign up at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c084bacab2aa57-coconut or just bring surprise us with a donation. Thanks, The Coconut Grove Gang -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 6797 bytes Desc: not available URL: From john.a.horn at intel.com Thu Mar 5 22:45:51 2015 From: john.a.horn at intel.com (Horn, John A) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 06:45:51 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] Request for help from DHS Band Parents during Coconut Grove Invite In-Reply-To: References: <14bedbfe18b.3a28.5f996@ismtpd-032> Message-ID: <31E5EEBE70B474419207FB83C01C03031BEEC6E2@FMSMSX110.amr.corp.intel.com> DHS Band Parents --- Coconut Grove is coming Saturday at Emerson Junior High School. We could use some help in the kitchen, in serving deserts and with serving mocktails. If you are interested in helping with this fun event in these ways while listening to the fine music from our various jazz bands in the background, please sign-up using the following link: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0F44A8A92CA7FA7-request/ Once in the door there is fun for all. Thanks for all your support in this and past DHS Band Booster events. 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From tslabaugh at djusd.net Thu Mar 12 12:44:22 2015 From: tslabaugh at djusd.net (tslabaugh at djusd.net) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:44:22 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] Fwd: Shout out to the Pep Band In-Reply-To: <1426181123.459519@gmail.com> References: <1426181123.459519@gmail.com> Message-ID: <8AB9CE1A-75F1-47C4-ABC3-742FAB042301@djusd.net> Hi all, I though I would share this note from the father of Anna Belenis. Your presence matters!! Great job! Mr. S Begin forwarded message: From: > Date: March 12, 2015 at 10:25:23 AM PDT To: > Subject: Shout out to the Pep Band Reply-To: > From: jim.belenis at gmail.com(Jim Belenis) Subject: Shout out to the Pep Band Please let your Pep Band know that that all the parents really have appreciated the band being at the girls basketball games. I know my daughter gets psyched when they play. Thanks again- Jim This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. 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From tslabaugh at djusd.net Thu Mar 19 15:00:57 2015 From: tslabaugh at djusd.net (tslabaugh at djusd.net) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:00:57 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] Fwd: INSIGHT feature this morning promoted March 31 benefit In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6F423274-D162-4D12-9343-3096CD30E708@djusd.net> Begin forwarded message: From: Lara Downes > Date: March 19, 2015 at 12:44:44 PM PDT To: "amoreno at djusd.net" >, William Zinn >, Thomas Slabaugh >, "kpeter at djusd.net" >, Karen Gardias >, Hiram Jackson > Subject: INSIGHT feature this morning promoted March 31 benefit Hi - this feature from this morning gave a great plug for the benefit concert - we should all share as much as possible! http://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2015/03/19/insight-031915d/ Best, Lara Lara Downes www.laradownes.com YouTube Soundcloud Facebook Twitter:@laradownes Skype: LaraD88 On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Lara Downes > wrote: Hi everyone, Back to the surface, after MC Young Artists Competition weekend... Press release attached. Would everyone please check it over carefully, especially these details: Tuesday, March 31, 7pm Davis Senior High School Brunelle Performing Arts Center - 315 W. 14th Street, Davis $20 minimum donation at the door (includes concert admission and a signed CD) I think it would be great to have the singer that Bill mentions, to do a Billie Holiday tune. And if there is another soloist or small ensemble as well? It would be nice to intersperse these throughout the program. I'll wait on the concert program details until we confirm this. But I think that we should have an intermission, for concession and CD sales. It will be a short program - c. 35 minutes each half. It would also be really nice to have a quartet or other ensemble in the lobby. My publicist is asking who is the marketing contact for the event onsite? Can we designate someone to be her liaison? Thank you! Best, Lara Lara Downes www.laradownes.com YouTube Soundcloud Facebook Twitter:@laradownes Skype: LaraD88 On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:05 PM, > wrote: This looks Lara, Printing of the program depending on how elaborate it is can be done on campus or for nicer paper at the district office. Can send us the program order (Billie Holiday sounds really fun!)so we can see if there is intermission for concession needs? If no admission, then i think we should leave cookies and drinks out of the mix. We all have parent volunteers that can work the lobby no problem. We could have a quartet play as people enter in the lobby or on stage prior to the start of your concert? Kathy can weigh in on staging needs. Bill will need to answer to the Jazz Choir question. Angelo ________________________________ From: Lara Downes [downeslara at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:08 PM To: Angelo Moreno Cc: Karen Gardias; William Zinn; Thomas Slabaugh; Katherine Peter Subject: Re: Lara Downes March 31st Concert Needs Hi, thanks Angelo. My thoughts: * I will get a PR release to you by tomorrow * Staffing needs from my end would be: * Piano tuned * Lobby volunteers (to sell CDs and general seating assistance, whatever) * Stage lighting, basic recital setup * Program printing - I can provide design BUT - I am also wondering if it might be nice to feature some DHS students on the program as well, specifically with some connection to the Billie Holiday tribute theme. Jazz Choir?? Do you have any ideas/thoughts about this? We would want to make a decision about this before moving ahead with PR etc. Thank you all! Best, Lara Lara Downes www.laradownes.com YouTube Soundcloud Facebook Twitter:@laradownes Skype: LaraD88 On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:48 AM, >> wrote: Lara, I am bringing everyone back to the table now that the donation amount and CD use has been agreed on $20 minimum donation plus the CD, CDs on sale in addition for $15 ($8 of each CD and $8 of each $20 donation goes to Lara for CD cost). Next thing to consider is what do you need from us? Lobby volunteers, program design, stage crew support, PR? We have 5 different groups that can offer support as a department we want to all participate in supporting you and the needs of the concert. I saw an email you sent with a PR statement attached. I cannot find it anywhere, can you put together a PR release for this March 31st date specifically and send to all of us so we can post to all of our music students and the entire DHS campus? You also mentioned you had a PR support group that could help us what do they offer in way of concert support? Lastly, what are your staging needs for Kathy? Thanks, Angelo That's fine, as long as the CD is part of the entrance donation. Thanks- Lara Downes www.laradownes.com YouTube Soundcloud Facebook Twitter:@laradownes Skype: LaraD88 On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:00 AM, >> wrote: Lara we just had a department meeting and discussed the best way deal with tickets sales for the March 31st performance. We think calling it a $20 donation is the best way to go. With the $20 donation you get your CD and entrance to the concert. Donations above $20 would be greatly appreciated. We would also sell your CD for $15 in the lobby. If you see the numbers below you could make $1,600 just on minimum donations of $20 if 200 people show up on a Tue night. The department was not willing to purchase CDS up front as you suggested. We think the way I have described makes for better PR for you and makes people feel like they got a gift for donating. Angelo Sent from my iPhone On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:23 PM, >>>> wrote: Lara, Everyone has agreed to move forward with the March 31st date for your recital performance. I have copied our donor John Cron to make sure this date works for him. John, can you confirm your availability to come to Davis High on March 31st for an evening performance by Lara? Kathy, can you tell us all that we need to do to move forward with booking the hall? Lara as soon as we have these confirmations we should be able to start the PR process, I am sure Jeff Hudson will be supportive given the recent donation by John and all of your efforts to support the DHS Music Program. Lara we also need a list of support needs from you so we can organize our parent volunteers however they are needed. We had discussed making it a free event with donations accepted in the lobby which would go to support the music department which we would use to cover the costs of moving the piano and all the new accessories. Can you explain how you?d like the sales of your newly released CD to work? Do we want to give it to people who donate over a certain amount? Do we want to make a suggested minimum donation and include the CD? Thanks, Angelo I'd really rather do March 31. Do they feel confident that they have time to promote? I have lots of help too, but want to make sure that DHS is committed as well. If we wait until Sept I don't have the same PR support from record label. Lara Downes www.laradownes.com YouTube Soundcloud Facebook Twitter:@laradownes Skype: LaraD88 This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. The unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or distribution of this email may constitute a violation of federal and/or state laws. From tslabaugh at djusd.net Wed Mar 25 14:08:07 2015 From: tslabaugh at djusd.net (tslabaugh at djusd.net) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:08:07 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] March 31 Concert - only 6 days out! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, Please read the article by Jeff Hudson about the donation of a wonderful Steinway piano to the DHS music department. There were some costs associated with acquiring this instrument and Lara Downes is performing in a concert on March 31st to help offset these costs. Please follow the link (below) and attend this fine musical event! Mr. Slabaugh http://www.davisenterprise.com/arts/piano-devotee-donates-steinway-to-davis-high-lara-downes-celebrates-gift-with-benefit-concert-featuring-music-from-new-album/ This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. The unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or distribution of this email may constitute a violation of federal and/or state laws. From tslabaugh at djusd.net Sun Mar 29 11:12:13 2015 From: tslabaugh at djusd.net (tslabaugh at djusd.net) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:12:13 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] Fwd: Reminder: Pianist Lara Downes Performance : Tuesday, March 31, 7pm- DHS Music Program Benefit Concert In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6C0C5127-79A7-4506-9DBC-6BB6F0A6CBAA@djusd.net> Pianist Lara Downes Performance DHS Music Department Benefit Concert Tuesday, March 31, 7pm Davis Senior High School Brunelle Performing Arts Center - 315 W. 14th Street, Davis $20 minimum donation at the door (includes concert admission and a signed CD) Davis Enterprise: http://www.davisenterprise.com/arts/piano-devotee-donates-steinway-to-davis-high-lara-downes-celebrates-gift-with-benefit-concert-featuring-music-from-new-album/ INSIGHT Feature story on Capitol Public Radio, Check it Out: http://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2015/03/19/insight-031915d/ MONDAVI CENTER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AND STEINWAY & SONS RECORDING ARTIST LARA DOWNES CELEBRATES THE CENTENARY OF BILLIE HOLIDAY IN SUPPORT OF LOCAL MUSIC IN SCHOOLS Pianist Lara Downes is well known to area audiences through her work as a concert artist and advocate for music education, as Artist in Residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis. Her efforts to support music in local schools have also been of significant impact through her foundation 88 KEYS, which facilitates the donation of used pianos to K-12 music programs. Most recently, Downes directed the donation of a concert-quality Steinway Grand Piano to Davis Senior High School, through the generous gift of pianist and Mondavi Center volunteer John Cron. Downes will celebrate the arrival of this fine instrument with a special benefit recital featuring music from her new CD on the Steinway & Sons Records label, A Billie Holiday Songbook. Tuesday, March 31, 7pm Davis Senior High School Brunelle Performing Arts Center - 315 W. 14th Street, Davis $20 minimum donation at the door (includes concert admission and a signed CD) **************************************************************** In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Billie Holiday?s birth, Lara Downes offers A Billie Holiday Songbook, a deeply personal tribute to an icon of American music (Steinway & Sons Records) set for release April 27th. With radiant sensitivity and timeless intimacy, Downes performs the songs forever associated with Lady Day?s legendary interpretations ? drawing on her own classically-trained background and infusing it with a jazz sensibility to honor the American tradition of music ?beyond category?, in the words of the great Duke Ellington. Trained in the conservatories of San Francisco, Paris, Vienna and New York, Downes acknowledges that Holiday?s singing has been a lifelong influence. ?As a musician, I learned from Billie Holiday to make something completely personal when you make music,? she says. ?Something that is completely your own - maybe something unexpected, something indefinable, perhaps complicated, but beautiful. To take a chance. As the song says: But beautiful to take a chance, and if you fall, you fall. And I?m thinking I wouldn?t mind at all.? ?Loving attention to mood and color.? ? The New York Times ?A unique blend of musicianship and showmanship.? - NPR ?A balletic keyboard reverie, rendered with nuance and drama.? ? Washington Post Billie Holiday?s place in the pantheon of Jazz is unrivalled. She was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s with her soulful, unique singing voice and her ability to boldly turn any material that she confronted into her own music, making her a superstar of her time. Today, we remember Holiday for her masterpieces and her creativity and vivacity ? as well as the many demons which she fought - and Holiday?s poignant voice is still considered one of the greatest jazz voices of all time. Downes? pianistic re-imaginings of songs forever associated with Holiday, such as ?God Bless the Child,? ?Strange Fruit,? and ?But Beautiful? not only evoke the eternal artistry of Lady Day, but also place her unparalleled talent in a much larger context. ?My take on this music, as a classical pianist paying tribute to a jazz icon,? Downes explains, ?is also a tribute to the unique diversity of our American musical tradition ? a tradition which includes European concert music, the blues, jazz, folk, rock, and on and on ? evolving, absorbing the sounds of each successive generation to reflect the multifaceted complexity of American music. We come from so many different places and people, and our music is a synthesis of our complicated heritage and blended cultures.? Composer Jed Distler took Downes? intentions to heart in his arrangements, honoring both the original melodies and Holiday?s singular phrasing while harvesting elements from the patchwork styles of American piano music: ragtime, parlor music, stride, pop, gospel, classical and film music. He also brings the personalities of Holiday?s predecessors, contemporaries and descendants: Monk, MacDowell, Weill, Ellington, as well as Don Shirley, Billy Joel and Bernard Hermann. The result is an unforgettable experience that places Holiday?s spirit in soulful communion with the past, present and future of American music. A Billy Holiday Songbook will be available on the Steinway & Sons label on April 27, 2015. About Lara Downes American concert pianist Lara Downes has been described as ?an artist who walks both sides of the classical line in the most compelling and entertaining of ways? (Sirius XM), and her charismatic presence and unique ability to communicate with diverse audiences distinguish her as one of the most dynamic musicians of her generation. Born in San Francisco of Caribbean and Russian heritage, Downes began piano lessons at age 4, and later spent a decade studying and performing with her sisters in Europe, in what she calls a ?gypsy-like existence? that took the family from Paris to Venice, Vienna, Basel and Rome. Since making early debuts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Salle Gaveau Paris, Lara has appeared on the world?s greatest concert stages, winning over audiences at diverse venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Le Poisson Rouge, the Kennedy Center to Classical Revolution. Ms. Downes enjoys collaborations with noted artists from various genres, including legendary saxophonist and composer Benny Golson, who wrote his one classical composition, On Gossamer Wings, for Lara, which she has subsequently performed both at The Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. She has also collaborated with the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet, violinist Rachel Barton Pine, cellist Zuill Bailey, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Her performance projects have received support from prominent organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, and American Public Media. Downes? solo recordings have met with tremendous critical and popular acclaim. Her last solo CD,Exiles? Caf? (Steinway & Sons, 2013) topped the Billboard charts and was called ?ravishing? by Fanfare Magazine. Some Other Time (Steinway & Sons, 2014), her recent duo recording with cellist Zuill Bailey, debuted in the Billboard Top 10 and was called "luscious, moody and dreamy" by the New York Times. Lara is heard regularly on national radio programs, including NPR Music, MPR's Performance Today, WNYC's New Sounds, and WFMT?s Impromptu. Ms. Downes is the founder and director of The Artist Sessions, a pop-up concert series and documentary series featuring international soloists and ensembles. She is the producer and host of The Green Room, a radio program about the real lives of professional musicians, debuting in national distribution through the WFMT Network in Spring 2015. Lara also serves as Artist in Residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis. For additional information and media requests, please contact: Alisse Kingsley, Muse Media, 323-467-8508; e: AlissetheMuse at aol.com, www.laradownes.com This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. The unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or distribution of this email may constitute a violation of federal and/or state laws. From tslabaugh at djusd.net Tue Mar 31 10:09:31 2015 From: tslabaugh at djusd.net (tslabaugh at djusd.net) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:09:31 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] Senior Concert Preperation Message-ID: Hi all, As is tradition for the DHS Bands, we have a Senior Concert where we end the event by recognizing the graduating students via a slide show. I ask for a picture from the students and you, the parents, that shows these young adults as little kids,...usually around 2 to 3 years of age or earlier (I call this the "munchkin" photo). I show the picture and read a list of their accomplishments at DHS and their future plans, finishing by showing a graduation/senior portrait or recent photo of them as young adults. This is where I need your assistance. Could you please send me a picture of your graduating senior students from their "munchkin" years that typifies their personality and a senior portrait/current nice photo. If you are unable to scan and send the photo, I am able to scan photos if I am given plenty of lead time. Photos should be a decent quality scan (no less then 200 dpi) and I prefer jpeg format (although I can accept nearly any format). Full color is preferred. Please send me the scan no later then April 24th, 2015. If you have a picture that needs scanning, please send it at your earliest opportunity and note if you would like the photo returned. Many thanks for your help in celebrating your student's success in our band program. Mr. S This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. The unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or distribution of this email may constitute a violation of federal and/or state laws. From tslabaugh at djusd.net Tue Mar 31 14:39:55 2015 From: tslabaugh at djusd.net (tslabaugh at djusd.net) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:39:55 +0000 Subject: [Dhsbb-jazz] Picture for publicity Message-ID: Hi all, Does anyone have a picture of the entire Symphonic Band or the combined tour band from last year's tour? I need a good quality picture for a publicity advertisement that will run in the Davis Enterprise. Many thanks! Mr. S This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. The unauthorized access, use, disclosure, or distribution of this email may constitute a violation of federal and/or state laws.