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Good evening.

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Charlie Parker once said
there's is no boundary to art.

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Marilyn Crispell is a pianist,
an improviser, a composer.

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She's a graduate of the New
England Conservatory of Music,

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where she studied classical
piano and composition.

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After discovering jazz through
the music of John Coltrane,

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Cecil Taylor, and other
contemporary musicians,

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she began to create music
of extraordinary range.

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For 10 years, she was active in
the legendary Anthony Braxton

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Quartet.

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In addition, she was a member
of the Reggie Workman Ensemble,

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Barry Guy New
Orchestra and his trio,

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a member of the Henry Grimes
Trio, and Quartet Noir.

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In 2006, she was co-director
of the Vancouver Creative Music

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Institute and a faculty
member at the Banff Centre

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International Workshop in Jazz.

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She has played with an
extraordinary roster of artists

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involved in new
music of all kinds,

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including people like Pauline
Oliveros and Anthony Davis.

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Marilyn has also collaborated
with videographers, filmmakers,

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dancers, and poets, as
you will hear tonight.

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She has given lecture
demonstrations

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in the United States, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, and all

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over Europe.

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Marilyn has been the recipient
of three New York Foundation

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for the Arts fellowship grants,
a Mary Flagler Cary Charitable

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Trust composition commission,
and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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In 1996, she was given an
Outstanding Alumni Award

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by the New England Conservatory.

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And in 2004, was
cited as being one

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of their 100 most outstanding
alumnae of the past 100 years.

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Among her recordings,
the album Nothing

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Ever Was, Anyway, featuring
the music of Annette Peacock,

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is widely regarded as a classic
and expanded the audience

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for her music.

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So many of us look forward to
whatever is the next Marilyn

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Crispell recording.

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The recent solo piano Vignettes,
also on the ECM label,

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is a treasure.

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She has made an instructional
video DVD, A Pianist's Guide

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to Free Improvisation, Keys
to Unlocking Your Creativity.

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One quality I admire about
Marilyn Crispell's music

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is that I have no expectations.

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Unlike pianists whose work
has predictable pleasures

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or structures, every
performance of hers is unique.

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She is a creative
force in music today.

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The last time I heard
Marilyn play solo piano

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was in San Francisco.

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I was with two friends, one
with a background in jazz

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and the other who knew
only classical music.

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Both were ecstatic
after the concert.

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You're in for a treat.

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Please welcome Marilyn Crispell.

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[APPLAUSE]