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SJO Awarded Prestigious NEA Grant

The National Endowment for the Arts has just announced that the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra was awarded one of only 1,057 arts grant the year….
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Pictured above, on Friday, March 9, Neal Paton (left), Yamaha Pro Audio & Combo Division District Manager, Southern California; presented the Deluxe Yamaha Keyboard to Albert Courey (second from right), the opportunity drawing winner from the SJO with Dr. Tony Spano (right), Culver City High School music teacher at Culver City High School and the Creative Director of Music and Co-Director of the CCHS Academy of Visual & Performing Arts with Culver City High School music students.

SJO Drawing Winner Donates Deluxe Yamaha Keyboard to CCHS Music Program

The 67-member Symphonic Jazz Orchestra (SJO), the only ensemble of its kind in the country dedicated to the unique American genre of symphonic jazz – music that blends the American language of jazz with European orchestral traditions – held a special free educational family concert last year which featured the premiere of “Dark Wood: Duke [...]
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SJO expands Music in the Schools program

As part of the California Arts Council’s “Artists-in-Schools” program, the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra began a yearlong pilot music program...
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