This lecture-recital cultivates all of my research and performance experience from my undergraduate career. I became incredibly interested in the stern culture of classical music and what separates it from other forms of music, in terms of education, experience, and rigor.  I discuss the rebirth of casual, improvisatory music-making and black musicians' contributions to modern musical culture. 

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I perform works by Jimmy Dorsey, Copland, Debussy, Kapustin, and John Cage.