JAZZ AMBASSADORS: COLD WAR DIPLOMACY
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JAZZ AMBASSADORS: COLD WAR DIPLOMACY
Benny Goodman in Red Square. Benny Goodman performs for a young audience in Red Square, Moscow, Soviet Union, 1962.
Photo courtesy of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Benny Goodman Papers, Yale University.
This and other photos are part of an exhibition created by the Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C..
Join us for a panel discussion featuring musician Wycliffe Gordon, and historians Ingrid Monson and Penny Von Eschen, moderated by Professor Robert O’Meally, founder of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. After the discussion, Wycliffe Gordon & His International All Stars will perform, reimagining a concert behind the Iron Curtain.
Arrive early and view prints of rare photographs that bring to life this unique period in U.S. diplomatic history.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018
7:30pm | Doors open at 6:30pm
Tickets:
General $45 / Members $35
For more information about this event, please visit The Intrepid Museum