Celebrating Jan Williams at 75 with an evening of percussion by Garaud MacTaggart in The Buffalo News.
No resident Buffalo musician has ever been more important to its avant-garde musical history than Jan Williams.It should be said here that all superlatives aren’t hype. And all hype doesn’t necessarily arrive in superlative form.
This elegant, silver-covered paperback of 17 of them not only commemorates the work of those poets, it is one of the increasing number of poetry anthologies paying tribute to one elemental fact about Buffalo life since the mid-’60s: that poetics has been one of Buffalo’s most successful native industries and one of its most exportable as well.
This being the second Friday of the month, the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State is open late with a quartet of attractions.
Lots and lots of artists this week, mostly short entries as I attempt to catch up on some Front Yard folks.
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The Burchfield Penney Art Center will celebrate the 75th birthday of legendary percussionist Jan Williams, one of the most important figures in contemporary music and a former chair of the UB Department of Music, with a special tribute concert.
Review: Burchfield exhibition showcases nature, both real and imagined in The Chautauquan Daily at Review by John Goodrich
As a Buffalo native, the love I have for my city only intensifies when I learn of its powerfully radiant past.
Though he was the first artist chosen for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC in 1930, most people have never heard of Charles Burchfield. But a visit to this 2008 LEED-Certified museum, moved from Buffalo State College across the street, will change all that.