by Kathleen ChaykowskiStaff writer

If you’ve ever wondered what Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall might feel like as a jazz-club, Bassoon in the Wild’s performance at 4 p.m. today, the last concert in the Logan Chamber Music Series, is one you don’t want to miss.

Michael Rabinowitz (bas-soon), Diana Herold (vibra-phone and percussion), Gri-sha Alexiev (drums), and Joe Fonda (bass) will be bring-ing chamber with a jazz-im-provisation twist to Lenna

today, performing “There Will Never Be Another You” by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, “Toward Beauty” by Rabinowitz, “Cen” by Herold, “Yearning Curve” by Alexiev, “Pastorale” by

Rabinowitz, “Joy Spring” by Clifford Brown, “How In-sensitive” by Antônio Carlos Jobim, and “Bassoon Speak” by Rabinowitz.

The “band,” as Rabi-nowitz refers to it, origi-

nally formed in 1999 with Alexiev, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music; Herold, a graduate of the New England Con-servatory and Rice Univer-sity; and Fonda, a graduate of Berklee College of Music.

The group performs across genres such as show, classical, blues, world, free jazz, and bebop, and have been recipients of National Endowment for the Arts grants and Meet the Com-poser awards.

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by Kelly Petryszyn | Staff writer

Jazz once dominated the airwaves. The music made popular during the fi rst half of the 20th century has since faded into the background, replaced in time by swing, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll and

pop music. The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra hopes to bring jazz music back to

the musical forefront. “I think it’s very important for Americans to understand that this

is our music and a big part of our culture,” said Jack Schantz, trum-pet player and former artistic director.

The group hopes to preserve and celebrate classic jazz music of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. At the same time, the jazz orchestra also aims to showcase new music in the jazz community.

The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra will play at 8:15 p.m. tonight at the Amphitheater. Musicians who had been playing with the North Coast Jazz Orchestra founded the CJO in 1984, and it has been performing ever since. CJO’s unique sound comes from many of its members such as Paul Ferguson, Chas Baker, Rich Shanklin and Howie Smith who write music and arrange charts for their concerts, board president Dan Leibundgut said in an e-mail.

They will play a mixed program at Chautauqua, including jazz songs by George Gershwin; an eight-minute melody of Gershwin songs put together by Associate Artistic Director Paul Ferguson; an-other arrangement by Ferguson, titled “Just in Time”; and songs from vocalist Helen Welch’s CD, titled “One Dream.”

by Sara TothStaff writer

In a week focused entirely on the Supreme Court and all its facets, a crash course in basic history could be useful.

That’s exactly what Eliza-beth Magill, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, will give during her lecture, “An Introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court,” at 10:45 a.m. today in the Am-phitheater.

Magill will focus her talk on the origins and history of the court — especially the early period, which people know less about, Magill said.

“I want to remind us all that there’s a very long his-tory to this court, and things weren’t always what they are now,” Magill said. “It was very different in the early re-public.”

Magill has worked in two of the three branches of the federal government, fi rst a four-year stint as senior leg-islative assistant for U.S. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and, later, as a clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It’s this time spent on Capitol Hill, Magill said, that furthered her interest in the govern-ment and the relationships among its institutions.

“The separation of power questions seem central to

by Laura McCrystalStaff writer

While many Americans view the Supreme Court as a protector of rights for racial minorities, Michael Klar-man argues that it has been both a friend and a foe in the past 50 years.

Klarman, a Harvard Law School professor, will lec-ture at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy about the Supreme Court and the issue of race. He is the fi rst lecturer in this week’s In-terfaith Lecture Series, “The Supreme Court: Issues of Justice and Personal Rights.”

The relationship between racial equality and the Su-preme Court is Klarman’s area of expertise; he is the author of several books on the subject. He said his inter-est in this area grew from the study of constitutional law, which is closely tied to race throughout history — from slavery and the Civil War to the Jim Crow laws and the

Magill

JAZZING UPIT

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra preserves and celebrates popular music of the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s

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Magill’s lecture to introduce high court

me, and therefore I never tire of thinking of them,” Ma-gill said. “I’m interested in them from a contemporary perspective and from an his-torical perspective. They just endlessly fascinate me —maybe because I’ve worked in two of the institutions of the national government, or because the relationships between those institutions seem so foundational and es-sential to the organization of our democracy.”

For people interested in institutions and law, the Supreme Court is the most important part of the fed-eral government, Magill said. In particular, she said, she is interested in exploring how the court’s practices differed in the past, because it gives a new perspective on the present.

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Klarman examines race and the Supreme Court

Klarman

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civil rights movement.Klarman fi nds the ex-

amination of the Supreme Court’s role in the civil rights movement to be es-pecially relevant. For ex-ample, he said, it is common belief in the U.S. that the 1954 Brown v. Board of Edu-cation decision caused white Americans to reconsider ra-cial issues.

Bassoon in the Wild brings jazz to Lenna

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“I think (audiences) react emotionally to people who are improvising. When you’re improvising, you’re able to pick up on the image of the audience because you’re not caged.”

— Michael Rabinowitzbassoonist

INSIDE, Zachary Lewis reviews theseason’s fi nal two CSO concerts

Photos by Tim Harris