Wadada Leo Smith
John Malveaux of
writes:
Nov. 8, 2019 attended presentation of the UCLA Medal to Wadada Leo Smith
and concert of his works at Evelyn & Mo Ostin Music Center, UCLA.
The UCLA Medal is the highest honor offered at UCLA. Past recipients
include Tom Bradley, Lawrence Olivier, Carol Burnett, John Wooden,
Toshiro Mifune, James Earl Jones, Bill Clinton, Francis Ford Coppola,
Shimon Peres, Benazir Bhutto, Janet Reno, Quincy Jones, Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, Jimmy Carter, and Frank Gehry.
Wadada Leo Smith is credited with a compositional symbolic language, ANKHRASMATION, for
creative musicians. The concert following award presentation included
excerpts from Four Symphonies (Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet, Nina Eidsheim,
voice, Vicki Ray, piano; String Quartet No. 11, movement No. 5, Angela
Davis, and String Quartet No. 11, movement No. 5, UCLA Music Library
(RedKoral Quartet).
See pic Wadada Leo Smith speaking after
receiving UCLA Medal. Listen to YouTube posting of "Martin Luther King
Jr" from Wadada Leo Smith album "Ten Freedom Summers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFvCjG1wAxc
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