Obama White House to become Marsalis music academy for a day: LA Times
Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 7:30AM The first family of the United States is scheduled to welcome the first family of jazz to the White House on Monday, along with 150 youngsters who'll come to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. not for a tour, but for a blue-ribbon music lesson.
First Lady Michelle Obama will be the hostess for the White House Jazz Studio, the first in a series of three planned music education sessions this year at the White House, with the next two featuring as-yet unnamed country and classical musicians as guest instructors.
For the kickoff event, five members of the Marsalis family are on the bill as instructors for instrumental music students hailing mainly from music academies in Washington, but also from the Marsalises' hometown of New Orleans and other regions.
Brothers Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis will be among the faculty (sharing their expertise on trumpet, saxophone, trombone and drums, respectively), and Semonti Mustaphi, the first lady's deputy press secretary, said that piano-playing paterfamilias Ellis Marsalis is expected to be on hand as well. more
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