Furgason Bravo! Series

Michael Martin Murphey's
Cowboy Christmas Concert

Tue, Dec. 8, 2009
7:30 pm

Award-winning Michael Martin Murphey, "singing cowboy poet", is not only the number one, best-selling singer/songwriter of American Cowboy Music, he's one of the world's most respected singer/songwriters in the Pop and Country-Western field. In May, 1975 Murphey’s story song, "Wildfire,"reached No. 1 on the Radio and Records charts, No.3 on Billboard'sPop Chart, and No. 1 on all Adult Contemporary Charts, giving the artist vast commercial exposure. Michael broke ground with an innovative concert concept called "Cowboy Christmas" in 1987 which has become a trademarked touring show and musical concept for him. The tour now spans 40 cities per holiday season, and has led to three Cowboy Christmas albums and a Cowboy Christmas DVD.

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Riverwalk Jazz Featuring
the Jim Cullum Jazz Band with Special Guest
Dick Hyman

Thu, Feb. 11, 2010
7:30 pm

As heard on Public Radio International, Riverwalk Jazz with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and Special Guest Stride Pianist Dick Hyman is coming to Corpus Christi! This live performance will not be broadcast but will give you a chance to see the performers as they would be performing on the radio program. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band has appeared in such major venues as Carnegie hall, Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, major worldwide jazz festivals, and stars in its own public radio series, Riverwalk Jazz, broadcasting since 1987, heard on over 150 Public Radio stations nationwide and on the internet.

The Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays jazz in the classic manner, that is, in the style of small, hot ensembles prior to WWII. The band's repertoire covers a lot of ground--from 19th-century cakewalks to the small pre-war Benny Goodman ensembles. The core of the band's music consists of the sounds of Jelly Roll Morton, Original Dixieland Jazz Band, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King Oliver Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, and Sidney Bechet, as well as a heavy emphasis on Bix Beiderbecke and Hoagy Carmichael. In keeping with the band's historical point of view, period instruments and performance practices are often used. Each member of the band is a specialist in historically informed jazz styles.

Special Guest Dick Hyman
Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early '50s, Dick Hyman has functioned as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and compose. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in film scores, orchestral compositions, concert appearances and well over 100 albums recorded under his own name. While developing a masterful facility for improvisation in his own piano style, Mr. Hyman has also investigated ragtime and the earliest periods of jazz and has researched and recorded the piano music of scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Zez Confrey, Eubie blake and Fats Waller, which he often features in his frequent recitals.

In addition to his activities in the jazz and concert worlds, Mr. Hyman acted as music director for such television programs as Benny Goodman's final appearance on PBS and for In Performance at the White House. In years past, Dick Hyman was music director for Arthur Godfrey and orchestrator of the hit musical Sugar Babies. He has served as composer/arranger/conductor/pianist for the Woody Allen films Zelig, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose, Stardust Memories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Bullets Over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says 'I Love You', Sweet and Lowdown, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Melinda and Melinda. Other scores have included Moonstruck, Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime, The Lemon Sisters, and Alan and Naomi.

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PAC 5th Anniversary Rededication Concert

Sat, April 10, 2010
7:30 pm

AThe Performing Arts Center on the campus of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi was dedicated on April 10, 2005. Immediately acknowledge as a beautiful hall, few at that time could imagine the important role that this concert hall would play in music making within the University's department of music, as well as in the community. To celebrate this incredible gift, the University invites you to attend a gala Fifth Anniversary Rededication Concert on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 7:30, featuring renowned faculty musicians who have performed with among others, the Hong Kong, Boston, and Houston Symphonies, the Oregon Bach Festival, Boston Lyric Opera and our own Corpus Christi Symphony. All proceeds will support student scholarships.

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