By City of Alliance
Alliance, NE – The Alliance Public Library will host the Humanities Nebraska presentation “And all that Jazz,” by Randall Snyder on Thursday, April 24 th at 5pm in the Community Room.
Snyder will present a survey of the development of American jazz from the late nineteenth century to the present, with special emphasis on its African American origins and the stylistic idioms of individual performers, incorporating historic recordings and live demonstrations using piano and other instruments.
Speakers are available to any non-profit organization in Nebraska. Each program lasts 30 minutes to an hour, plus a question-and-answer period. The most frequent users of the HN Speakers Bureau are primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries, museums and historical societies, agencies for the elderly, rural organizations, churches, arts organizations and ethnic organizations. Humanities Nebraska sponsors the largest Speakers Bureau program in the U.S. according to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For information detailing the available speakers and guidelines for booking them, please access our website at www.humanitiesnebraska.org (Speakers section) or contact Humanities Nebraska at 215 Centennial Mall South, Suite 330, Lincoln, NE 68508, phone (402) 474-2131, fax (402) 474-4852 or e-mail [email protected].
For more information about the presentation, contact Adult Services Librarian, Nalani Stewart, at [email protected] or call 308.762.1387.
