Artspeaks Series
- Uri Caine: The Art of Variation: the Relationship between Structure and Freedom in Composition
- Jan. 29, 2007: This quarter’s Presidential Fellow in the Arts is famous for playing Bach, Beethoven and Wagner like a jazz standard. He brings klezmer, bassa nova, tango, Dixieland, street sounds, DJs, even drinking songs into the likes of Mahler and Mozart. In this lecture, Uri Caine speaks about his approach to composition in combining classical approaches with jazz improvisation. (Listen: audio)
Video produced by the Chicago Media Initiatives Group
