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Article: Keyed up for a jazz classic; Celebrated composers put their own stamp on Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight Variations'.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- November 8, 2002
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Byline: Benjamin Ivry Special to The Christian Science Monitor
In music, the theme-and-variations format is as old as the hills, but sometimes it can seem fresh and new again.
Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight Variations" is one example.
Twenty years have passed since the death of the jazz composing genius and eccentric, and to celebrate, Italian-born pianist Emanuele Arciuli has asked 20 composers - including Milton Babbitt, William Bolcom, John Harbison, and Aaron Jay Kernis - to write variations on one of Monk's most renowned jazz themes.
The homage to Monk will be performed at Columbia University's Miller Theatre in New York on ...