Carleton’s Regional Carls Program

The San Diego Carleton Club

Saturday, March 12, 2011

The Jazz Improviser’s Mind:  Lecture-Demonstration
by Jazz Pianist and Composer Mark Applebaum ’89

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall
334 14th Street Del Mar, CA 92014
1:30 to 4 p.m. (lecture-demonstration 2 to 3:30 p.m.)

Mark is a music professor at Stanford University and former Dayton-Hudson Visiting Artist at Carleton (1996). At the afternoon lecture, he will explain the basics of jazz improvisation, discuss standard forms such as the blues and 32-bar song form, perform numerous jazz standards, and respond to audience questions.  He’ll also talk about his new composition to premier later the same day.

R.S.V.P. by March 9 to Heidi Yuen ’89 at sdcarletonclub@gmail.com (preferred) or call
(858) 505-8809. 

Include your phone number and the name of each person who is attending.  At the lecture, we will welcome donations to defray the cost of renting the hall.

Concert with La Jolla Symphony & Chorus:
World Premiere of Concerto for Florist and Orchestra

Mandeville Auditorium (UC San Diego campus)
7 to 7:30 p.m.—La Jolla Symphony & Chorus pre-concert lecture
8 p.m.—Concert featuring Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 for Violin, Applebaum’s “Concerto
for Florist and Orchestra” and Bartók’s “Concerto for Orchestra”

A limited number of discount tickets are available through Carleton for $20.00 (regular adult admission: $29.00).

Purchase tickets by February 24 online at http://tinyurl.com/sdmusicevent or through the Alumni Relations Office at (800) 729-2586, ext. 5842 between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.  (We cannot accept reservations or payment at sdcarletonclub@gmail.com)

For more about Mark, directions to both events and free parking information, please visit:  tinyurl.com/sdmusicevent.

Questions? E-mail Heidi Yuen ’89 at sdcarleonclub@gmail.com or call (858) 505-8809.

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