Dec 07
SSU Jazz Orchestra Featuring World Premier of

SSU Jazz Orchestra Featuring World Premier of "I Can Dream: A Jazz Suite"

at Weill Hall

Join the SSU Jazz Orchestra in Weill Hall for a night of socially-conscious music featuring the world premiere of SSU alumna Alison Poteracke's I Can Dream: a Jazz Suite, a multi-movement work featuring impressions of sorrow and hope in today's society.

"How often do we as people forget the impact we can have on each other? Each decision has a consequence, and that consequence leads to another, then another, then another until there’s a collision. An impact that, for better or worse, alters the perception of the world around us. Now the world feels that impact. The “I Can Dream Suite” is a conversation, a reminder of lives lost, lives taken, and the consequences of those losses. It is a call for peaceful, organized, intentional change that lifts not only our communities but our global society at large. The conversation doesn’t end when a case is concluded, when arrests are made, or when lives go on because then change will never happen. It is up to us, as individuals of a greater system, to talk and listen, to teach our children, to open our understanding and rise together." -Alison Poteracke
 

More information about composer and SSU alumnus, Alison Poteracke HERE.

This concert will feature two faculty as soloists:

Ian Carey

Raffi Garabedian

AND will open with "The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife are Some Jive-Ass Slippers" by Charles Mingus, transcribed by student, Estella Zea. Mingus was also known for his activism through music.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 7:30pm
$12 Admission, Free Parking, SSU Students FREE

Green Music Center, Weill Hall 

Learn more HERE

Dates & Times

2022/12/07 - 2022/12/07

Location Info

Weill Hall

1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928

Parking Info

As you enter campus from Rohnert Park Expressway, there are multiple parking lots immediately to your right. Parking in Lots L, M, N, and O is included for all ticketed performances at the Green Music Center. Parking Map

*Parking expands to further lots during highly attended summer performances.  These lots are also included in your ticket purchase.