BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1992552:Event:109395 DTSTAMP:20260520T231742Z SUMMARY:Starfall Orchestra DESCRIPTION:The new 18-piece Starfall Orchestra will perform\nrediscov ered dance music by 1950s era cool jazz legend Gil Evans along with\nf eatured pianist Lou Schreiber in a free concert on February 23rd at 7: 30 pm at the\nOlin Fine Arts Center, near the corners of South Wade Av enue and East Wheeling\nStreet, on the campus of Washington & Jefferso n College, Washington, PA, 15301.\nStarfall trombonist Paul Martin is a huge fan of Evans' arrangements, originally\nwritten for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Martin discovered that a small college\nin Missou ri held Thornhill’s entire music library of nearly 800 original work s,\nincluding many Evans originals that have never been recorded, and Martin made it\nhis mission to bring these works back to life.\nTo man y jazz fans, Gil Evans & Miles Davis created “cool jazz” in 1949 w ith their\ncollaboration on “Birth of the Cool.” When Martin got t o know these earlier\nEvans’ charts, however, it became clear to him they represent a “link” between\nswing era, bebop and cool jazz s tyles, incorporating elements of each. To\nfaithfully recreate the pie ces, Martin has spent the better part of a year lining\nup a talented group of young musicians now called “The Starfall Orchestra” to pl ay\nthe Evans arrangements.\n“The absolute key to Evans’ arrangeme nts is the piano voice itself and we were very\nfortunate to land Lou Schreiber for this part,” says Martin. Schreiber, an\ninstitution to Pittsburgh jazz fans, shares Martin’s enthusiasm for this music.\n These are beautiful works,” says Schreiber, “and we are fortunat e to have a solid\ngroup of musicians who are doing a great job interp reting them, requiring a style\nof ensemble playing that is something of a lost art.”\nKyle Simpson, Assistant Professor of Music at W&J p lays jazz trumpet for Starfall.\nSays Simpson, “This is a kind of cool, swinging, bebop dance music’ that reaches\ncasual and informe d listeners alike; if this music doesn’t appeal to you on some\nleve l, check your pulse!”\nStarfall Orchestra is available to perform fo r private parties, weddings, and\ncorporate events. For more informati on contact starfallorchestra@gmail.com.\n\nFor more information visit https://jazzburgher.ning.com/events/starfall-orchestra DTSTART:20100223T193000Z DTEND:20100223T213000Z CATEGORIES:concert LOCATION:Washington & Jefferson College Olin Fine Arts Center WEBSITE: URL: CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="Starfall Orchestra":https://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile /StarfallOrchestra ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Carmen P etote":https://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/CarmenPetote ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Starfall Orchestra":https://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/StarfallOrchestra END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR