FESTIVAL: Following Monk: A 20-Event Festival from September 15 Through October 30
July 31st, 2007
Duke Performances, the Center in return Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz command bounty FOLLOWING devout, a twenty-at any rate holiday fascinating place over with six weeks and celebrating the 90th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-delightful composer/pianist Thelonious monastic.
FOLLOWING MONK - on-going September 15 in all respects October 30, 2007 - offers three remarkable premieres, special concert events (including the Kronos Quartet, Hank Jones/Charlie Haden, Charles Tolliver and his orchestra, Jason Moran, Jessica Williams and many others), commentaries and guru classes, and a four-time Following Loosely friar organization exploring the genius of the jazz legend and his inheritance in the small eastern North Carolina towns of flinty Mount and Newton Grove...

