Kuzu

Purple Dark Opal is the second release by the working trio Kuzu, a band whose deep roots in disparate musical traditions delivers a sound that’s not only new, but totally organic. Saxophonist Dave Rempis is best known for his work in the improvised music scene in Chicago, often exploring areas at the farthest edge of the jazz tradition. Guitarist Tashi Dorji, a native of Bhutan, came up through the active noise scene in his home base of Asheville, NC.

This brand new record just came out officially on March 5th through our friends at Astral Spirits, and features another blistering romp by this fiery trio with Dave Rempis - saxophones, Tashi Dorji - guitar, and Tyler Damon - drums. This new set of material came from the same back to back concerts in Chicago and Milwaukee in October 2018 featured on the Aerophonic cd Purple Dark Opal last year!

Taha Ertuğrul Kuzu untersucht Formen und Funktionen der Aktivierung mehrsprachiger Ressourcen im Rahmen mathematischer Verstehensprozesse im vorrangig monolingualen deutschen Schulkontext. Dazu kombiniert er in einem interdisziplinären Forschungszugriff mathematikdidaktische und linguistische Perspektiven auf die Mehrsprachigkeit, um in qualitativen Fallanalysen individuelle Lernpfade und Sprachnutzungsmuster zu rekonstruieren. Als zentrale Erkenntnis zeigt der Autor, dass sich die mehrsprachigen Ressourcen der Lernenden sukzessive vernetzen und im Lernprozess wichtige Funktionen, wie die Schaffung von konzeptueller Multiperspektivität sowie der Konsolidierung von Vorstellungen, einnehmen.

"From the first three decades of the twentieth century, the music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating. Drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, To Scratch Your Heart crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country-people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system.

One of the most famous African-American sopranos, Kathleen Battle received her vocal training at the Cincinnati College Conservatory, where she studied voice with Franklin Bens and also worked with Italo Tajo. While at Cincinnati she came to the attention of conductor Thomas Schippers who brought her to the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina to sing the Brahms Requiem in 1972. She made her stage debut in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia as Rosina with the Michigan Opera Theater in Detroit in 1975. Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro was her New York City Opera debut role in 1976.