"An Instrument of Unity"
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| Table of Contents Index Los Angeles Music Week LAMW 2006 Honorees City Council Honorees Local 47 Honored World Festival of Sacred Music 2005 Honorees Press Conference City Council Day Opening Ceremony Children's Day Closing Ceremony Awards Luncheon Introduction
About LAMW Honorees Music Links Calendar of Events Commemorative Caches Souvenir Journal Events Highlights Music History Synopsis Through the Years Historical Highlights A Musical Panorama Contact Sign our Guestbook Educational Links: Jazz & Blues History Black History Index Black History Classical Music Musicology Kids Domain Music History Asian History & Culture Latin History & Culture Gospel and Southern Gospel Folk & Country Music Classical Music and History    |
LOS
ANGELES
MUSIC WEEK
December 3 to 10, 2006 THIRTEEN YEARS OF CELEBRATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICE To donate instruments to the fifteen council district schools and the five county supervisory schools through Los Angeles Music Week, which LAMW annually services, please email melamw@earthlink.net or dial 310-670-6898. Your contributions are greatly appreciated and recognized. Please help students receive instruments and music education through your Ralphs Club Card purchases on behalf of Los Angeles Music Week, a 501c(3) non-profit organization that is now in its thirteenth year of operation. See our Honorees Page for those who have been blessed through this service. Through your purchases, 4% will be donated to Los Angeles Music Week to raise funds for the children. Please mail us your Ralph Club Card number, your name, address, city and phone number so that Ralphs can process this information. For security reasons, please mail this information to Los Angeles Music Week, P.O. Box 451146, L.A., CA 90045. With your help, the injustices of inequitable arts education can continue to be addressed. Your cooperation and timely response are dearly appreciated. Thank you so much!    The Artistic Mission of Los Angeles Music Week Fulfilling the motto, "An Instrument of Unity, " Los Angeles Music Week serves all the residents of the Greater Los Angeles area, including its surrounding basins. The performances, projects and events impact people of diverse cultures, ages, ethnicities, religions and socioeconomic groups. The scope of events offers Angelenos opportunities to hear musical genres that they have never experienced and invites them to explore venues in various parts of the city. The educational activities of LAMW are enabled in elementary, middle and high schools by donatng instruments, music instruction, mentoring, field trips and/or school supplies. LAMW takes an active role in Los Angeles' cultural tourism industry by offering a wide variety of performances that showcase the city's musical heritage. Due to the drastic
cutbacks in music curricula in schools over the past decade, the
majority
of the city's children know little or nothing about the rich musical
heritage
of the city they live in and have no scope of the musical genres
available
to them, from classical to jazz to ethnic musics. Many children
have
very few musical skills or lack the resources for acquiring them.
LAMW's program elements, such as field trips, in-school presentations
and
opportunities to interface with living musical legends, broaden musical
understanding and have created musical bridges between the communities
over the past twelve years. The sponsors and
partnerships
listed on this page dutifully enable LAMW to accomplish the
educational
goals and facilitate field trips for the school children in order to
link
music with other aspects of culture and learning. The children
derive
so much pride and motivation from learning how many famous musicians
from
all aspects of the music business grew up in their own
communities.
Face-to-face dialogue with successful living legends gives them the
impetus
to explore their own God-given talents and capabilities, inspiring them
to learn. The Children's Day field trips open up a world of
amazing wonder and possibility. Will you place an Ad in our Souvenir
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Oliver W. Wilson has served as a highly esteemed full professor of Political Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills for nearly 30 years. Prior to his position at Dominguez, he served as a professor at California State University at Bakersfield, holding numerous awards and commendations of distinction for his landmark business, political, and community service ventures. He is lauded by many for his respect for music history and its promotion among local residents through his ownership and maintenance of the 5-4 Ballroom and Supper Club, the landmark of historic blues preservation through his valiant efforts. This ballroom holds special significance as the birthplace of Los Angeles Music Week, where the legendary Charles Brown performed at LAMW's spectacular inception, for which the Honorable Richard Riordan, then Mayor of Los Angeles, proclaimed December 12, 1994 as Los Angeles Music Week. It is no secret that Los Angeles was the uncontested center of Rhythm & Blues in the late 1940's. Most of the major independent record labels were here, as were most of the era's major artists: T-Bone Walker, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Big Joe Turner, Jack McVea, Charles Brown, Amos Milburn, Nellie Lutcher, Helen Humes, Roy Milton and countless others. Thanks to the efforts of Executive Director Margie Evans, Los Angeles Music Week was founded. Although the location is now a dear memory, Dr. Wilson's inimitable dedication lives on through his recognition by L.A. Music Week. A tenacious native of Louisiana, Dr. Wilson is also a catalyst for impacting the society postively having served in and administratively directed various school districts, in addition to providing leadership in several professional organizations, writing and conducting many historic research projects as well as participating in nearly a dozen political and educational associations. His work for businesses, as a general building contractor, president and founder of Data Automation Services Inc, as well as serving as president of Global Investors and Associates, enabled him to hold contracts with noteworthy businesses and construct many buildings and homes in the affected communities. Dr. Wilson's auspicious consultancies further demonstrate these facts, as his life's work has influenced numerous people who applaud the professor for his timely impact in their lives. Dr. Wilson and his
wife Edna, both professors, have two children,
Oliver Jr. and Kathy. All reside in Los Angeles. The
Wilsons
are remembered for the application of this historic quote by Juliuis
Nyere,
1968, in their endeavors:
"The purpose and responsibility of educators is to transmit from one generation to the next, the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the socieity and to prepare the young people for their future membership in society and their active participation in its maintenance and development." |
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Samaritans' Purse
Salvation Army USA
Feed The Children
Soldiers' Relief Fund
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Los
Angeles Music Week
has Rare
Commemorative
Limited Edition Postal Caches:
Sets of the previous Celebrations
Now on Sale for
$5.00
a set!
Orders
based on
availability.
Place orders by mailing requests to:
Contact:
Margie
Evans, Executive Director
Los Angeles Music Week, Inc.
Email: melamw@earthlink.net
Post Office Box 451146
Los Angeles, CA 90045-8511
Phone: (310) 670-6898
Fax: (310) 670-6908
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