New England Conservatory Announces 2021 Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients for its 150th Commencement
This year s recipients are honored for their lifelong commitment to the performing arts and their remarkable contributions to the field.by Alexa Criscitiello
New England Conservatory announces gospel and soul singer Mavis Staples as its 150th annual commencement speaker at its commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. ET.
The ceremonies will take place in historic Jordan Hall and be streamed on NEC s website (necmusic.edu). NEC will also bestow honorary Doctor of Music (hon. D.M.) degrees on five distinguished musicians: Carl J. Atkins, Founding Chair of NEC s Jazz Studies Department; Emanuel Ax, classical pianist; Deborah Borda, President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic; Wu Man, pipa virtuoso; and Mavis Staples.
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Jazz on Film: A Woman’s Place is In the Groove Share
For much of the history of jazz, this has largely been the deal. If you’re a cute woman who can sing, there’s a place for you on the bandstand. If you can play the piano, maybe there is room for you as well. But leave the real instruments, the soloing and all the rest to the men. For all the freedom and liberation that has been intimately associated with the history of Jazz, the struggles of women to find and secure their rightful places in the music has been an ongoing untold story. Eight years in the making, Judy Chaikin’s documentary
Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve in the 1950s
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the mother of afrofuturism writer Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler was a deep observer of the human condition, perplexed and inspired by our propensity towards self-destruction. She described herself as a pessimist, if I m not careful.
As an award-winning science fiction writer and mother of Afrofuturism, her visionary works of alternate realities reveal striking and often devastating parallels to the world we live in today. Butler was fascinated by the cyclical nature of history and often looked to the past when writing about the future. She broke on to the science fiction scene at a time when she knew of no other Black women in the field, saying she simply had to write herself in.
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