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The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble/ Empty Boat at
Courtesy of Maren Wenzel | Posted on October 26, 2012
When
Mon, November 19, 2012
8pm
At Door
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Musicians
Wayne Horvitz
keyboardsBeth Fleenor
clarinetAl Keith
trumpetSamantha Boshnack
trumpetRyan Burns
pianoGeoff Harper
bass, acousticEric Eagle
drumsAbout
Wayne Horvitz first performed in Butch Morris’s Conduction in 1987 at The New School for Social Research in New York City. Twenty four years later, in the summer of 2011, Horvitz began to experiment with the Conduction approach while leading Seattle JazzEd ensembles and teaching jazz and improvisation to high school students at Cornish College of the Arts’ summer program. Horvitz’s own approach to Conduction came out leading youth ensembles to hone their improvisational skills. The improvisations that we played were conducted through a series of hand signals and cues developed by Horvitz, and they were constructed out of original charts of cues he composed. Upon the opening of The Royal Room several months later, Horvitz took the opportunity to form his own big band to exclusively perform these charts in his approach to Conduction, thus The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble (originally called The Seattle Conduction Band) was formed. ...