![\"Marsalis\"](\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/wynton-marsalis-standing-by-clay-mcbride.jpg\" "\\"wynton-marsalis-standing-by-clay-mcbride\\"")
<\/a>Marsalis<\/p><\/div>Accomplished jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, educator and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis has left a lasting pattern in the fabric that makes America.<\/p>\n
Marsalis, an internationally acclaimed musician who has produced more than 70 records that have sold more than seven million copies worldwide, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the Student Union Auditorium for The University of Toledo\u2019s Edward Shapiro Distinguished Lecture Series. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Shapiro Series has been able to bring world-renowned speakers to the University, and Mr. Marsalis certainly belongs in that pantheon,\u201d said Jon Richardson, chair of the Edward Shapiro Lecture Series Committee and an instructor in the Honors College. \u201cWe are very excited that he is coming to our campus and feel that his appearance is a boon not only to the University, but to the whole community. That is exactly what Ed Shapiro envisioned.”<\/p>\n
Seating for the free, public Shapiro Lecture is available on a first-come, first-served basis. <\/p>\n
The lecture series committee has brought scientists, Nobel Prize-winning novelists and historians to campus, but Marsalis is the first musician.<\/p>\n
“When we met this year, we decided to select a speaker from one of the greatest of all the arts \u2014 music,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cThrough his talent and tirelessness, Mr. Marsalis has become a cultural force in his own right.”<\/p>\n
In 1997, the nine-time Grammy Award winner was the first jazz musician to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music with his epic oratorio Blood on the Fields. <\/em><\/p>\n Among Marsalis\u2019 prestigious accolades is the installation of Jazz at Lincoln Center, which is considered equal in stature with the New York Philharmonic or the New York City Ballet, and the opening of the world\u2019s first jazz institution, the Frederick P. Rose Hall, in 2004.<\/p>\n A humanitarian, Marsalis volunteers his time feeding the less fortunate and working with shelters for battered youth and women. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Marsalis organized the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Concert, which raised more than $3 million in relief funds for musicians and cultural organizations impacted by the storm. <\/p>\n Marsalis also is a George F. Peabody Award winner, the most prestigious distinction for broadcast journalism, which he received in 1995 for his radio and television series \u201cWynton Marsalis: Making the Music\u201d and \u201cMarsalis on Music.\u201d <\/p>\n A recognized writer, he has authored seven books, his most recent work being Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life<\/em> (2008).<\/p>\n The Shapiro Lecture Series is named in memory of Dr. Edward Shapiro, UT alumnus and economics professor for 22 years in the College of Arts and Sciences. He donated more the $4 million to the college during his lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jazz icon Wynton Marsalis will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the Student Union Auditorium for The University of Toledo\u2019s Edward Shapiro Distinguished Lecture Series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}