New Book:
For Musicians, Artists, and Teachers by Jon Damian Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble  |
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Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble for Musicians, Artists, and Teachers by
Jon Damian chronicles 40 years of Jon’s Creative Workshop
Ensemble(CreW) at the Berklee College of Music and internationally. The
book provides refreshing alternatives and immerses and engages the
reader in real and practical creative experiences. Fresh Music is
written in the form of a play with characters consisting of the workshop
members, including Jon, and regular dialog with the readers; virtual
workshop members. The book invites the reader to join in with CreW
activities, into the bubbling stew of CreW ideas inspired by everything
in the universe, from alphabets to zodiacs!
Order your copy of Fresh Music today!
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“This
is a brilliant book. Bursting with ideas about improvising and its
teaching—in jazz, any music, dance, painting—life! You name it! Full of
specifics, and full of a lively, collaborative, adventurous, humane approach to the making of almost anything.”
Eleanor Duckworth Professor of education, emerita, Harvard University; modern dancer; author of The Having of Wonderful Ideas: And Other Essays on Teaching and Learning
“I
received the most valuable elements from Jon’s Creative Workshop,
opening a door of endless creativity in me as a film composer and
concert artist.”
Stephane Wrembel Composer of “Bistro Fada,” the theme for Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris
“I
played in one of Jon Damian’s early Creative Workshop Ensembles. He
showed me new ways of looking at what I already knew . . . turning them
around and seeing them from a different angle. New possibilities. He
opened the window and the door. He gave me the keys . . . a rope to
hang onto allowing larger leaps. To not be afraid of jumping off . . .
to make mistakes . . . to learn. Jon has spent his life dedicated to
finding truth, beauty, and expanding the imagination. His new book Fresh Music welcomes us all into this amazing world.”
Bill Frisell Grammy-winning guitarist
“In Fresh Music,
master teacher Jon Damian shares a whole curriculum of creative
ensemble activities that will open students up to new ways of hearing,
playing, and interacting. Jon leads us in a fresh exploration of the
basic building blocks of music: dynamics, rhythm, timbre, and pitch
direction. Drawing inspiration from nature, daily life, games, classic
scenes and stories, and the other arts, he shows creative ways to build
musical forms and focused contexts for composition and improvisation.”
Allan Chase Chair, Ear Training Department, Berklee College of Music
“Albert
Einstein said ‘It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods
of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of
inquiry.’ Jon Damian’s Fresh Music is a strong tonic for the situation Einstein bemoaned and which is still the case today. Fresh Music moves
the student through engaging experiential lessons that break wide open
the creative process. We need more Jon Damians and more Fresh Music!”
Roger Dell Director
of education, Farnsworth Art Museum, and former lecturer, Harvard
Graduate School of Education and Harvard Extension School
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