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Calendars, press releases, mailers, and other promotional material for event series as well as individual performances at The New School as well as at other venues. Includes a 1965 press release promoting a New York Art Quartet concert.

Scope and Contents The Beacons in Jazz Gala was a fundraiser and award ceremony hosted by the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School from 1987 until 2006. The gala served as a ceremony for the “Beacons in Jazz Awards,” an award presented to living jazz musicians whose careers and achievements were taken to be of historical and artistic significance to the genre. The gala featured a concert, and was likely modeled on the long-running Parsons Table Award presented at the annual Parsons Fashion Benefit, a fundraiser for The New School’s art and design college, Parsons School of Design. In 1984, concert promoter Paul J. Weinstein was asked by jazz saxophonist Zoot Sims to throw a party after his death. In 1986, following Sims’ death in 1985, Weinstein became the first chair of the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at The New School. The same year, in collaboration with New School donor and Zoot Sims’ widow Louise Sims, Weinstein held “A Party For Zoot,” which became an...

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Student enrollment statistics, with information about gender, race, and nationality.