PERFORMANCE / TOUR: From Ragtime To Early Jazz – Celebrating New England Conservatory’s Ragtime Legacy On Tuesday, November 21 At Jordan Hall

The Gunther Schuller Society and New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Musical Arts and Jazz Studies departments will honor the birthday of the most transformative figure in NEC’s history with From Ragtime to Early Jazz, the Gunther Schuller Legacy Concert on Tuesday, November 21. Directed by CMA co-chair Hankus Netsky, From Ragtime to Early Jazz celebrates the 50th anniversary of Schuller’s 1973 Grammy Award-winning The Red Back Book recording which re-introduced chamber orchestra arrangements of Scott Joplin’s music originally published around 1912…