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Well we are at a new year, what wonders will 2020 bring? Through all the years I have been interviewing on podcasts, one thing is for sure, we are all ready for change.
Change is within our grasp, for we are the change we seek. Life is about tuning in to ones inner self and living from the inside out. Action and interaction is key if we wish to make those changes as is sharing the stories of those who embraced change.
The Choice is ours to make, are we going to live in the past of pain and doctrine or are we going to allow ourselves to open up to what is possible if we choose to step out of anguish and step into the joy of life.
So I invite you to join us here on Self Discovery Media and Self Discovery Community (a resign and new name Discovering Communities org is in the works for you starting late January) With over 2500 collective shows and blogs, there is an answer to your question awaiting you.
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on “for the LOVE of Music with Sara Troy and her guest Darius Brubeck, on air from November 5th
Born in San Francisco in 1947, jazz pianist and composer Darius Brubeck grew up in the artistic milieu of his famous father Dave and has enjoyed a lifetime of varied international experience as bandleader, composer, teacher and broadcaster. The Brubeck family moved to Connecticut in 1960 where Darius attended high school and graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University where he studied ethnomusicology and history of religion. He also holds an M. Phil. from Nottingham University where he was a Visiting Fellow in Music in 1999-2000.
After graduation in 1969 and some experiments with different kinds of music, Darius was ushered into the international jazz scene in the Seventies as a member of Two Generations of Brubeck and The New Brubeck Quartet (Dave, Darius, Chris and Dan Brubeck) under his father’s leadership but also continued playing intermittently with his own groups.
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He married Catherine, an expat South African living in New York, and moved to Durban, South Africa in 1983, where he initiated the first degree course in Jazz Studies offered by an African university. Together, they founded and developed the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal six years later, where, as Professor of Jazz Studies, Darius taught until 2005. He has also served as a Fulbright visiting professor in Romania and Turkey. Darius Brubeck and Afro Cool Concept, which featured some of South Africa’s premier musicians, played throughout southern Africa, Europe, and the USA and recorded for the Sheer Sound label. He also collaborated with virtuoso bansuri player, Deepak Ram, using the name Gathering Forces for ‘world-music’ concerts. From 1989 onward, Brubeck led staff-student groups representing his university and South Africa on official tours, attending conferences and giving workshops and concerts in Europe, North and South America, Turkey, and Thailand.
Moving to the United Kingdom on retirement from full-time teaching in 2006, Darius now leads the London based Darius Brubeck Quartet, which has now an international following and since 2010 also tours annually with his brothers Chris and Dan in Brubecks Play Brubeck .
Darius and his wife/manager Catherine return to South Africa every year where he remains an honorary research professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Darius regularly appears at academic conferences related to jazz studies, presenting papers and joining panels. The Brubecks were jointly awarded a writing grant in 2017 by STIAS (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study) and again in 2019. The couple are writing a book about their jazz life in South Africa during the turbulent and hope-filled period leading up to the first democratic election in 1994.
Darius has composed and arranged across a range of styles from string trio to full orchestra, as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and others. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra commissioned Darius and Zim Ngqawana, to set extracts from speeches by Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu to music, read by Morgan Freeman. In 2005, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded him a residency as a composer at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy. ‘For Lydia’ was selected for the 2013-2014 Grade 5 Piano Syllabus by the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music and the 2018-2019 Grade VI syllabus includes his ‘Tugela Rail.’
The theme of cultural diplomacy figured large in 2018 and will continue to build this year. A WNET/BBC4 TV co-production titled ‘The Jazz Ambassadors,’ about jazz diplomacy during the Cold War featured an extensive interview with Darius.
Darius went to Poland in February 2018 where he played with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra as a guest and returned in March with his Quartet for a concert on the 60th anniversary of the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s famous 1958 world tour. (Incidentally, Szczecin, Poland is where Darius made his un-planned stage debut as a 10-year old accompanying his parents.) The DBQ returned to Poland again on November 6 – 18 for a tour of the cities visited on the original 1958 tour by his father’s quartet. (A ‘live in Poland’ CD will be forthcoming.) A film crew shadowed this tour and will follow Darius and Catherine to South Africa this year, making a documentary about his life as an unofficial jazz ambassador.
‘Darius, the eldest (of Dave Brubeck’s sons] and most visually like his father, plays stylish piano and knows the score.’Jack Massarik, Evening Standard.
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Politics politics, normally I stay away from it, but I am in the UK and every hour every show is on Brexit, to leave or stay in the EU. It is causing such a divide and so much mudslinging, that a party NO one wants in is worming the way in because everyone else is concentrating on hanging Borris Johnson even at the cost of their own country, it is mindblowing.
Every day we see more and more ridiculous news on our global politicians, thigh gate, Borris apparently touch a womans thigh 20 years ago but it has taken 20 years for her to come forward to complain, just at the time the opposition are gunning for Borris to be out because they want to stop Brexit. How low can they keep on going?
Hong Kong and China at odds with each other over human rights, but looking at China’s army will they ever get those rights? Russia is worming their way in America politics and taking over other countries, are we are the brink of another war? and if we are which candidate would be the best to face these troubled times with a clear head?
Then in Canada my home, you have the blackface Trudeau being slandered on every media to shame him out of office, I will not be swayed by mudslingers, the more you mudsling the more I stand my ground and will not be swayed by such behaviour. Look at what each candidate is doing or wants to do to serve your country and ask your self, does it serve the whole or only a few? Then decide if in the long term everyone benefits.
Of cause, you have the USA, for the last 3 years, it has been entirely about Trump, this Tweet, that Tweet, firing people left right and centre and lying over and over again. Now we are looking at Impeachment and an upcoming election next year and with so many democrats, how does one decide?
Outcomes the mudslinging, the putdowns, the destroy attitude at any cost including their integrity, it does not build confidence in the people just hysteria.
Trump as a president has been a joke scary one at that, he has been found to be a criminal and lowlife that has the world all shook up not knowing what he will do next because of his instability. We need someone with integrity, gumption and common sense in the White House to make America great again WHO WILL UNIT NOT ONLY THEIR COUNTRY BUT THE WORLD.
So get out and vote, but first read, listen, ask questions and deduce who will be the better person in power that will truly serve your country.
Socrities said, “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of losers”.
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