http://www.wikio.com/search=William Mead Wikio - William Mead http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=69195961 One of my more recent travel adventures brought me to Woodstock, NY. That’s right, I said Woodstock… you know I’m a hippie at heart. Just a modern day iPhone-talking, MacBook Pro-walking hippie. Hosts The hosts for my adventures in Woodstock... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:07:55 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=69195961 2008-08-27T19:07:55Z http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=67494769 [Dr. Everett N. Jones III, piano] Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Classical Series Dayton Philharmonic Thursday, December 4 & Saturday, December 6 ~ 2008 Schuster Center, 8 pm TAKE NOTE, Mead Theatre, 7pm STILL Festive Overture DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7 STILL Kaintuck', Poem for Piano and Orchestra STILL Afro-American Symphony NEAL GITTLEMAN conductor EVERETT JONES Piano HERBERT MARTIN narrator Buy a Classical Subscription Package online! Or call Ticket Center Stage at (888) 228-3630. William Grant Still’s Festive Overture opens this program. The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra then performs Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7, which many consider “the pinnacle of his achievement as a composer.” Still’s Kaintuck’ , a Poem for Piano and Orchestra follows. The program concludes with Still’s Afro-American Symphony , with its blues inflections and energetic cross-rhythms “a landmark in the history of American music as the first symphonic work by an African-American composer performed by a major orchestra.” [ William Grant Still (1895-1978) is profiled at AfriClassical.com ] Dr. Everett N. Jones III is a well-known pianist, composer, and lecturer. One critic wrote, “Jones has a muscular percussive technique…with technique to spare, the Liszt etudes were tossed off with ease…” Jones has pioneered performances of William Grant Still and George Walker at many colleges and universities. He’s worked with the past director of the 2003 William Grant Still Festival (Richard Fields) and is the director of the 2008 William Grant Still Festival at Wilberforce University. Jones will record some new music for William Grant Still Music this coming season. Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor of Piano at Wilberforce University, where he teaches Applied Piano, Piano Literature, Group Piano, Counterpoint, Music Theory, Music History, and Form and Analysis. Herbert Woodward Martin has spent the last three decades editing, performing and promoting the works of Dayton native Paul Laurence Dunbar. He has just finished editing The Complete Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar to be published by Ohio University Press. Martin is a poet in his own right, having published eight volumes of his own poetrty, the most recent book being Inscribing My Name published by Kent State University Press. His sixth volume, The Log of The Vigilante , won the Edwin Mellen First Prize for Poetry in 1999. He is Professor Emeritus of English of The University of Dayton. Dayton Philharmonic Everett Jones, Piano Herbert Woodward Martin, Narrator Festive Overture Kaintuck',Poem for Piano and Orchestra Afro-American Symphony Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:01:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=67494769 2008-08-12T13:01:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=67417904 ST. CROIX - V.I. Superior Court Judge Francis D'Eramo has set a tentative trial date for two women who were granted new trials after being convicted in a case in which shots were fired in the William's Delight area in February 2007. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:06:21 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=67417904 2008-08-11T22:06:21Z http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=67234860 Having started the pickled walnuts I still had loads of nuts left over, so I looked around for other green walnut recipes. I was tempted by an Italian walnut liqueur that my last hairdresser makes every year. He buys pure alcohol in Italy and makes enough to last him until the next annual visit. He [...] Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:59:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=67234860 2008-08-09T22:59:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=66370867 ST. CROIX - V.I. Superior Court Judge Francis D'Eramo has granted a new trial for two women on one of the charges they were convicted of in a case involving shots fired in the William's Delight area in February 2007. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:37:20 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/William+Mead?rinfoid=66370867 2008-08-01T20:37:20Z