Educator/Performer RICHARD PEARL presents this original program - a combined presentation of rare 16 mm sound film, with a supporting lecture to both educate and entertain students and teachers of various backgrounds. This unique program finds wide acceptance with educators trying to supplement badly cut musical programs, and those wishing to present a great history lesson on America's music to the entire student body. It maintains high student interest throughout, has an interdisciplinary combination of culture, history, and performance, and provides ample time for questions.

The program will consist of three 20 minute film presentations, each preceded by a 10 minute background lecture. This 90 minute presentation traces the jazz idiom from its inception to the present, by exploring the three basic eras of the music, and how each progressed to the next. The economics of the time, and its impact on the development of this musical form, is explained so that the audience more fully understands the important relationship between the two.

An outline of the lecture:

Supplementary teaching materials applicable to all, will be provided in advance, to help teachers prepare students for the program.

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