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San Francisco Bay Area-based music educator and author Keith Hatschek offers a range of lively and informative enrichment talks drawing on his own interests and past experience as a musician, recording engineer, record producer, entrepreneur and educator. He directed the Music Management Program at University of the Pacific for two decades.
Current offerings include:
Singin’ The Blues: A Tour of Mississippi’s Blues Trails
Traveling Tennessee’s Music Trails: An Armchair Tour
Magical Mystery Tour: How the Beatles Revolutionized Sound Recording
Louis Armstrong: American Genius
The Real Ambassadors: Dave Brubeck’s “Lost” Jazz Musical
Honky Tonk Angels to Sweet Home Alabama: Answer Songs in Popular Music
Behind the Motown Sound: How Sound Engineers Shaped the Music of Young America
Freedom Sounds: The Role of the Jazz Ambassadors During the Cold War
BAM! Crunch! Whoosh! – How Sound Effects Changed the Movie Experience
The Music of The Magnificent Seven
Past Engagements
Jazz Festivals
Monterey Jazz Festival
Detroit Jazz Festival
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Sopot Jazz Festival (Poland)
North Texas State University - Willis Conover Centennial
Brubeck Jazz Festivals (Stockton, CA)
Music Career Talks
Butler University
Berklee College of Music
Crane School of Music, SUNY Postdam
Middle Tennessee State University
Anderson University
Las Positas College
Mission College
SAE Institute (Nashville)
McGeorge School of Law
Conferences
Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association
JEN - Jazz Educators Network
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
Society for American Music
Music Library Association
Jazz and Race Conference (UK)
College Music Society
National Association of Music Merchandisers (NAMM)