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Jazz, the Opposites, & Ourselves! at Aesthetic Realism Foundation
Courtesy of Devorah Tarrow | Posted on February 24, 2015
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Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene Street
New York, NY
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Sat, March 21, 2015
8:00 pm
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This thrilling event features a dramatic presentation of "The Orderly Extreme," in which Eli Siegel, poet and critic and founder of Aesthetic Realism, discussed Shelby Foote's moving novella titled "Ride Out," about a jazz musician. In it, Mr. Siegel said: "This is one of the best things about music I know--also about people.... If you can let go and still be orderly, you're an artist. The motto for Jazz is Professor Tiger." Also on the program will be "Ellington & Aesthetic Realism"-- passages from Edward Green's introduction to the just-published Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington, edited by Dr...