The River Campus Jazz Ensemble will perform its annual spring semester concert tonight at 8 p.m. in lower Strong Auditorium.

The ensemble will be performing pieces by jazz legends Bob Brookmeyer and Gil Evans.

Matt Mealey, a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music, will be directing the ensemble.

The concert will also feature several original compositions by Eastman School graduate student Jamey Simmons, who will perform with the ensemble as well.

Also joining the ensemble will be special guests the UR Jazz Combo and the Stingers Trombone Choir, both student groups on the River Campus.

The concert is free and open to the public, so head on down to Strong Auditorium and spend the evening listening to some excellent jazz.



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People should look to other cultures to learn the truth of the cliche that holidays are about more than just gifts. 

The ‘wanted’ posters at the University of Rochester are unambiguously antisemitic. Here’s why.

As an educator who is deeply committed to fostering an open, inclusive environment and is alarmed by the steep rise in antisemitic crimes across this country and university campuses, I feel obligated to explain why this poster campaign is clearly an expression of antisemitism

We must keep fighting, and we will

While those with power myopically fret about the volume of speech and the health of grass, so many instead turn their attention to lives of hundreds of thousands of human beings.