Wynton at Harvard, Chapter 4: The Journey to Individuality Under Pressure of Time

Delve into Wynton Marsalis's six-part Harvard University lecture series, covering a range of topics including jazz, what it means to be American, and the importance of cultural literacy and the arts in the liberal arts education.
IV. The Journey to Individuality Under Pressure of Time
In this chapter, Wynton discusses the importance of individuality (personality, feeling, and invention) in music.
Go to jazz.org/wyntonatharvard for the complete series.
"Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music" is a series of six lectures delivered at Harvard University between 2011 and 2014 sponsored by the Office of the President and Provost. The inaugural lecture, “Music as Metaphor,” was delivered in Sanders Theatre to a capacity crowd. It is an interpretation of the many unobserved symbols in American music and an investigation into how they illuminate the democratic process.
It covers many of the fundamental devices, forms, and songs that bind the different Americas together at the root. It is Marsalis's contention that "'Me vs. You' and 'Us vs. Y'all'-vs. 'All of Us'-remains the struggle at the heart of humankind and the central debate of our Constitution. How do we achieve a common ground when individual victories are so much more valued? This conundrum has been resolved harmoniously in our musical arts for more than a century. Under the vibrant din of our democracy, on the lower frequencies, sonic metaphors speak to and for us all. What they tell us about what it means to be American could serve us well in these divisive and uncivil times."
Performances by Marsalis's ensemble (with special guest, the iconic fiddler Mark O'Connor) punctuate the lecture with musical explanations.
Mark O’Connor - fiddle
Walter Blanding - reeds
James Chirillo - guitar
Dan Nimmer - piano
Carlos Henriquez - bass
Ali Jackson - drums
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4:30 with da guitarist behind is priceless, his face say all da things!

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Stank face maximus.

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God bless that man, up there as an equal but still a child and student. I hope I can always be like him.

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You can watch the bass player just gettin pumped back there. I am in awe of this lecture. It is easily one of the greatest creations in all of time.

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The time is unyielding, it keeps us honest.

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Mark O'Connor is a national treasure.

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My man on the bass got Wynton to give a stank face

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As Tom Waits said, "That bass player oughta be chained up somewhere"

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