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The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation - Author Event

  • Holt-Atherton Library, University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Avenue Stockton, CA, 95211 United States (map)

The University of Pacific Library welcomes author and Professor Emeritus Keith Hatschek back to campus for a conversation about his research into Dave and Iola Brubeck’s ground-breaking jazz musical, The Real Ambassadors. His new book telling the story of the Brubecks’ five-year struggle to bring the musical to the stage demonstrates how artists can use their voices to stand up to inequality and take a stand for human rights. Bay Area artist, Gina Musser, will also exhibit an original wire-frame artwork of Iola Brubeck as she performed as narrator in the show’s triumphant 1962 premiere at the Monterey Jazz Festival.

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