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MUSICWORKS brings interactive arts education into the lives of creative students. We act locally and globally to engage the artistic potential, and cultivate meaningful relationships between students and professional performers. By using music as a method to address universal issues of communication, diversity and tolerance, literacy, and socio-emotional well-being, we capitalize on the curiosity of all students, and break down the barriers between artists and audiences. Our workshops can be extended to weekly or monthly residencies and after-school programs, and Musicworks teaching artists welcome the opportunity to collaborate with classroom teachers' curriculum in order to guide students through the process of applying arts to everyday life. Please visit the REMOTE RESOURCES section of our website, designed to keep in contact with ALL of our students during the Covid19 pandemic.
Episodes
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Musicworks presents THIRD CULTURE, a series looking into the ways our identities intersect and diverge.
In our inaugural episode, MW director Jesse Neuman speaks with Indian American Shreya Raghuraman about her relationship with traditional Indian food, and how dreaming of crustless pb&j, $8 turmeric milk, and shopping mall food courts factor into her ever evolving palette.
Illustration by Michael Marsicano, www.MMillo.com
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Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
MW #374: The Sound of Summer 2021
Musicworks invites you to fry your brain, recharge by the AC, decompress, let loose, or whatever else you look forward to during the summer time. Featuring music to make the most of these long hazy days. Featuring music by Marc Johnson and Bass Desires, Haitus Kaiyote, James Francies, Lake Street Dive, Lianne LaHavas, Big Thief, Olivia Rodrigo, The Fania All Stars, and Japanese Breakfast.
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Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
MW #360: Anthems
PLAYLIST (links below):
"Anthem" by Jan Garbarek
"Always Someone" by Ursa Minor
"Music for Images***" by Ryan Ferreira
"Parable for Inclusion" by Rob Mazurek
"Ask Me Now" by Frank Kimbrough Quartet
"Thought vs. Everybody" by Black Thought
***apologies to Ryan, as I mistakenly referred to the album as "Music for Drawings"
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Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
This is for my students at Good News Home---spend an hour with some of my favorites, and see who wins this ridiculous competition!
Merry Christmas!
Jesse
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
MW# 353: Signals in the Noise (feat. Moonchild, Feist, Sylvan Esso, Esperanza Spalding, and Caroline Davis) highlights fantastic musicians filling up our sonic space with all variety of signals; lofi + hifi, sampled + live, booming bass to piercing treble. Through examples from pop, neo-soul, improvised, covers, and purely instrumental music, Musicworks director Jesse Neuman leads us through a guided listening full of sonic gems.
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Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
GNH remote music class 9/9/20: Ibeyi
Ibeyi is a musical duo of twin sisters Naomi Diaz and Lisa Kiande-Diaz. The women are of Cuban/French/African descent, and incorporate multiple languages and musical traditions in their widely eclectic and powerful electro/acoustic music. Here, Musicworks director Jesse Neuman leads a guided listening of several works and interview selections (audio only)
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Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Sand between your toes is almost as nice as tunes between your ears. But the beach means different things to all of us. Musicworks Director Jesse Neuman explores some of the many sides of summer sounds though several genres of beach’y songs.
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Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
MW #338: "Somewhere/Things are Gonna Get Easier"
One mark of a good song is its ability to remain relevant to both the time of its inception as well as generations of history to come. Enter both Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" from West Side Story and the Five Stairsteps' "Ooh-Child." Multiplied by artists like Dionne Warwick and Nina Simone and their skill and perspective, these songs--like many others--speak not only to the changes of their original eras (50+ years ago), but also beautifully (and incredulously!!!) highlight the volatility of our current struggles around social and racial justice, on this day, the 4th of July.
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Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Musicworks #330: "Miles Davis never finished a phrase..." said modern master Ralph Alessi. He's right--no matter what period amidst his multi-decade chameleonic career, Miles always held us all in suspense and wonder. He was NEVER "easy listening," and defied anyone to put his music into the background. Yet within all of that tension, Miles always drew an undercurrent of romanticism and tenderness for the melody and the sound of his horn. Take a deep listen with Musicworks director Jesse Neuman to some of the more gentle Miles moments over his career.
includes:
"My Ship" from Miles Davis +19
"Flamenco Sketches" from Kind of Blue
"I Fall in Love Too Easily" from Seven Steps to Heaven
"Fall" from Nefertiti
"Little Church" from Bitches Brew
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Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Musicworks #333: Take a deep dive into the relationship between voice and guitar---one of the most recognizable combinations in the history of pop music. How does picking/strumming style intermix with vocal range, phrasing, and rhythm to speak to the message of a song? We take a look at examples from The Staves, Josh Ritter, Her Crooked Heart, Laura Marling, and Lianne LaHavas to examine this intimate setting, as well as the natural expansions implied.
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