December 10, 2025 • 25 mins
Larry Brown and his Quintet are back in Vero Beach! See them perform Friday, January 16th at 7pm at the Vero Beach Theatre Guild. Enjoy performances of music made famous by the likes of by Miles Davis, George Gershwin, and Cole Porter. Kids are welcome, and in fact, encouraged to attend. Get tickets and info at VeroBeachTheatreGuild.com. We also talk about the Summer Jazz Camp in June; find details online at JazzSociety.org.
Sara Klein of Vero Beach Museum of Art joins us to discuss Holidays at the Museum, a free event this Saturday, December 13th, 2025, from 10am-3pm, with artistry, fun and food trucks. We also discuss the 44th season of the International Lecture Series. This year's theme is "American Made" showcasing 250 years of American art. Get memberships, registration and details online at VBMuseum.org.
Sara Klein of Vero Beach Museum of Art joins us to discuss Holidays at the Museum, a free event this Saturday, December 13th, 2025, from 10am-3pm, with artistry, fun and food trucks. We also discuss the 44th season of the International Lecture Series. This year's theme is "American Made" showcasing 250 years of American art. Get memberships, registration and details online at VBMuseum.org.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Arts Blast on the Air. It's a podcast,
it's a radio show and an Alexis skill presented by
Ballet Vero Beach and Riverside Theater. They are the arts
supporting the arts in Florida. I'm Willie Miller and every
week I get to talk to people in the arts
about the arts on the Treasure Coast and beyond. Arts
(00:23):
Blast on the Air is proud to be supported by
Ballet Vero Beach. Subscriptions and single seats are available online
now for your holiday giving, and don't miss evening performances
of The Nutcracker on the Indian River through December thirteenth,
Riverside Theater with a special Nutcracker for all on the fourteenth.
(00:43):
Learn about everything at Balletverobeach dot org and now on
with the show. My guest today Sarah Kline from Vero
Beach Museum of Art and Larry Brown. Hey, Larry, how
are you?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good morning? I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You're looking well. You're looking perky for early morning.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I am perky. It's not that early.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It depends on who.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You are here because you are doing something with the
Vero Beach Theater Guild.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is that right, so excited to be having my quintet
come back to Vero Beach. We don't usually get to
play in Florida. Normally the Northeast where they have jazz
clubs and jazz festivals, but they don't have a lot
of jazz in Florida. But this is this is something
we get so excited about because we come down here
(01:36):
and the place is packed. The Vero Beach Theater Gold
the last two years sold out as two hundred and
twenty seats. So it's very exciting to have jazz here
on the Treasure Coast.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You know what, let's talk about you. Let's talk about
your history and your quintet. But you have I've been
exploring on YouTube and listening and having a good time,
and yesterday with my headphones on my computer, let's talk
about your history, how you got into it, and the
(02:09):
people you play with.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So I grew up in Washington, d c. The son
of a jazz drummer who played in the big band
era and used to travel with a big band called
Clyde McCoy whose hit tune was a Snowfall. It was
a Christmas tune. But my father exposed me to jazz
at a young age, which is so here. I am
(02:33):
not at a young age a professional jazz touring jazz musician.
And I got in it because my parents took me
to see live music. This is why I always encourage
people to bring your kids to see live acoustic music.
It's so important to expose them to different kinds of music,
(02:54):
and this jazz is something for the whole family. Kids
love jazz, so bring your kids. It's Ride Day, January sixteenth. Anyhow,
I grew up in Washington, d C. My quintet is
very similar to the traditional Miles Davis and John Coltrane quintets,
with trumpet, sas piano, bass and drums, and the bass
(03:17):
is an upright bas not an electric bass. Piano is
an acoustic piano, not a keyboard. And it's just it's
just very exciting music that doesn't get played today as
much as we would hope.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And do you think you could change that? Are you
doing anything education wise?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know, it's funny you mentioned the one thing I
can do to change that that it doesn't get played
much is to bring it to local audiences, which we
are doing on January sixteenth, and encouraging people to come
out and then as far as education. As a matter
of fact, I've just been appointed the director of the
Florida Summer Jazz Camp. So and yes, where it's going
(04:00):
to be next June right here in Vero Beach at
the Indian River Charter High School, the Florida Summer Jazz Camp.
It's going to be there June ah through the twelfth.
I'm the director. We have nine fantastic faculty members, wonderful
jazz musician educators teaching students of all ages, anywhere from
(04:23):
ten to ninety years old. We had last year twelve
working professional jazz musicians come to the camp as students.
So that's a lot of fun education wise.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yes, how long has the camp been going on? Is
this a new thing?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
This is a camp that has been going on for
I think it's the twelfth year now, but it's the
fifth year that I've been involved. And now as the director,
I get to set the whole agenda and pick the faculty.
And this year. Last year we were also at the
Indi River Charter High School, we had forty eight students
(05:03):
and this year we're expecting sixty.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, how do people sign up?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So to sign up for the Summer jazz Camp. You
go to Jazz Society dot org. Jazz Society dot org.
The information is there. It's June eight through the twelfth.
I'm not sure the registration is up yet, but make
a note of it. After the first of the year,
it should be up. But the first and foremost thing
(05:29):
we want to do is you want to go to
the Vero Beach Theater Guild website and get tickets for
January sixteenth. Yeah, that's the that's the first order of business.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And bring your kids, bring your kids.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Why not? Indeed, Okay, maybe maybe I'm going to ask
you a question, and I believe there is no real
answer for this. What is jazz?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So? Jazz is a unique, uniquely American art form that
came from the cotton fields of the South in the
seventh in the nineteenth century and evolved as an art
form in New Orleans in the late eighteen nineties in
(06:16):
the body houses. When they got closed. In the early
twentieth century, the whole jazz scene moved to Chicago. It
moved into Kansas City and then to New York City
and then spread around the United States. But it is
definitely of African American origin. We have, I mean, all
(06:39):
of my musical heroes raw for African America. My favorite
musician is Miles Davis, and we're going to be doing
some Miles Davis on January sixteenth, as well as some
George Gershwin and some Cold Porter and some a little
bit more modern. Earn a smooth jazz. But it's it's
(07:02):
going to be it's going to be a very exciting program.
If you came last year, if you bought tickets last year,
it's a completely different show. So you haven't seen it
until you until you come.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
How do you teach jazz?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So one thing to teach jazz? The first thing when
you when you're teaching jazz, if somebody is new to
jazz and they have a classical background, excuse me, the
first thing you want to do is make sure that
they know who to listen to. I had a jazz
instructor in college and I was sitting in his office
and somebody knocked on the door and it was a
(07:40):
classical violinist, this young Asian woman, and she said, I
want to learn jazz. And he says, who have you
been listening to? She goes, well, I don't know what
you mean. She ses I want you to go listen
to jazz for a year and come back and knock
on my door in a year. You need to listen
because once you once you listen to a lot of jazz,
you start getting a basis for improvisation and then you
(08:06):
can take the next step and the next step. But
you have to have some basis to start with. And
then to teach jazz improvisation is so fun to see
these students. I'm talking about a fifty year old pianist,
somebody that plays piano, been playing for fifty years and
(08:27):
just wants to learn how to improvise. To teach that
person how to improvise is so fun. I base a
starting with chord structure. So we make sure we have
a good understanding of chord structure. And then where is
the jumping off point? How do we start and how
do we practice? Problem with learning to improvise is people
(08:49):
don't want to feel, you know, foolish, so they're intimidated.
And so to overcome that intimidation, we make a very
very safe place for them. So we we we we
talk about hears some notes, try this notes, try these notes,
and and and and people get so excited. The difference
(09:11):
between Monday morning and the concert on Friday night at
this jazz camp. You would not believe, Willie, You would
not believe the difference in these these these these students. Oh,
and they're so excited.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's that is amazing to me. I personally cannot imagine
letting myself be that free. Is that something that you
can teach or it is?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It is something you can teach. What you can't teach
is the inspiration and the ideas. Those come between your
own ears. Okay, so once and everybody has them. The
key is to unlock them and how to translate those
ideas through your instrument. That's the key, and that and
that conduit is what we teach. How to open that up,
(09:57):
how to free that up so that it then can
have It's so exciting, it's it's so fun, and it's
so rewarding as as an instructor to see the fruits
of your labor.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Wow, you're inspiring me.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You should come. What's your instrument, Willy, I don't have one.
You don't have one, Well, you've got a few months
to pick one up.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
All right, what do you suggest?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I don't suggest violin, that's one.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
If it doesn't have a front. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The piano is easy. The piano is easy because all
the notes are right there, They're all they're all they're
all right there, right in front of you. It's so easy.
Or or guitar.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Okay, I used to play guitar, very good, go pick
it up. No, I don't have it anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
There there are. There are guitars available for you, right,
I think right here.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Okay, we have a very little time left. Let's talk
one more time about the special appearance of the Larry
Brown Quintet at the Vero Beach Theater Guild. This is
a fundraiser who's going to be there with you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So I'm going to have my regular quintet. Dan Jordan
is on tenor sacks, Scott Dickinson is on trumpet, Doug
Matthews is on base. What a wonderful basis he is.
And we have a new addition to the band, a
local from Vero Beach, Sam Moss. Sam is a sophomore
(11:24):
at Berkeley College and ball in Boston, and he's going
to be traveling here to Vero Beach to his home
to perform with my band. I can't say enough about
mister moss on drums on drums, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And to get tickets, people go to the Jazz Society
or to the you.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Know, they go to the Vera Beach Theater Guild. Theater
is th h e a t r E not e
r but r E Vera Beach Theater Guild. Go online
and you can get tickets easy for January sixteenth. Larry
Brown quintet.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay at Vero Beach Theaterguild dot com. And what time
seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Seven o'clock in there they're doing theater. They're doing stage seating,
so they have tables and seats up on the stage
right near the band, which kind of simulates like a
New York jazz club. And those seats are usually the
first to go. I think they've already sold over eighty seats.
There are still some stage seats available.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Okay, out of time. Larry Brown. Looking forward to seeing
you and hearing you on January sixteenth at the Vero
Beach Theater Guilden.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Thank you, Willie, thanks for everything you do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Thank you. Okay, let's take a break now. That was
Larry Brown. And in case you didn't know, we're looking.
Are you looking?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I know?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I am. I'm looking for some coming down the home stretch.
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
And we are back with Arts Blast on the air.
I'm Willie Miller talking with Sarah Klein. Now, Sarah, you
are the director of Education and visitor Experience at the
Vero Beach Museum of Art Es. How long have you
been there.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Now it'll be almost eight years.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
No, yes, I guess you've settled in. We want to
talk well. First of all, very briefly, holidays at the museum.
Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I know a lot about Holidays at the Museum. This Saturday,
at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, We're hosting our
annual Holidays at the Museum, which is a free, festive
celebration of the arts for families. We'll have multiple local
performance by school groups and other organizations. We'll have art
making in the studio and in the atrium. Food trucks
(16:07):
and gallery activities and a whole lot more. And the
date is December Saturday, December thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yep, So I hope we're not listening to somebody's not
listening to this.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
After that and the hour you missed it, yep, ten
am to three pm and completely free.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And that's holidays at the museum. Yes, we want to
talk about the International Lecture Series though, don't we? Yes,
Wow Wow. Tell me about the history of the series.
Have you been involved with it in all your eight years?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yes, So this is our forty fourth season of the
International Lecture Series, and since I've been at the VBMA,
I've been involved in selecting the speakers and coordinating them
with our major exhibitions. So we theme these speakers around
the major exhibition at the museum at the time.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So this is a full picture. So you have to
know far in advance what exhibitions are coming so that
you can book the speakers for those that kind of
revolve around. Wow exactly. Yes, so we have a lot
of coordination there. Yes.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
So this season we have a wonderful show of American Art,
which will showcase two hundred and fifty years of art
made by American artists, which coincides nicely with the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence. So the show is called American Maid and
we're getting it from the Mint Museum in North Carolina.
(17:41):
And again we've themed the speakers around uniquely American themes.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, I'm going to go back just a second. When
the speakers come here, have found that they are, I
don't know, taken by our small town, but our big museum.
I remember Isabella Roussolini when she do you remember when
she was here?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I wasn't here when Isabella was here, but her legend
lives on.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
She was very kind. My granddaughter's name is Isabella. I
braved it and asked her if she would record a
Hide Isabella for me, and she did. Oh my god,
she was so gracious. I think the museum has a
special atmosphere, not just for us, the people who go,
(18:36):
but for the people who come to inform, entertain whatever
you bring in, whoever you bring in, I think they
get the feeling that it's a special place.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I would agree with that one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Okay, let's talk about the series in general. People can
come in where are the speakers in the auditorium, So.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Live is available in Holmes Great Hall, okay. And then
we have a simulcast option so people can sit in
the Leonhardt Auditorium which was which is adjacent to Holmes
Great Hall. Another great option we have is to stream
it from the comfort of your home. If you're not
able to make it to the museum, you can register
and we'll send a link out on the day of
(19:20):
the lecture and you can click that link and see
and hear the lecture on your couch and your jammies
with the glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
What a wonderful thing is that new?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
No, that was a that we created that during COVID okay,
and our audiences liked it so much we kept it
for all of these years. And we have people streaming
the International Lecture Series all over Vero Beach, all over Florida,
all over the United States, all over the world.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Really wow. Now people have to register right in.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Advance, and they can register on our website VB Museum
dot org.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay, And if you want International hyphen Lecture Hyphen Series, yes, anyway,
just go to the website Bbmuseum dot org and you
will be led not only to the international lecture series,
but a lot of wonderful pages. You can see the
exhibit exhibitions they are there that are coming, more about
(20:20):
the children's program, more about the education wing.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Yeah, we have a robust schedule of programs coming up
this season, wonderful partnerships with Ballet Vero, Beach, Atlantic Classical Orchestra,
and information and tickets are all available on the website.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, so exciting, and not only that, you're going to
be dodging the bulldozers and am I correct?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yes, our campus is starting to look a little different
for our upcoming expansion. We just had a wonderful groundbreaking
ceremony with over two hundred local dignitaries and people in attendance.
And as you mentioned, we will have some machinery and
equipment on campus very soon, all in the hopes of
(21:07):
a beautiful new building in the next couple of years.
We're very excited.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I just got my quarterly magazine from the museum with
I guess artists rendering, the architects rendering.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Yes, our special quarterly. Shout out to our deputy director
Suzanne Seldez for putting that together. That is one of
the first glimpses our public will have into what our
new building will look like, and we're very proud of it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Does the quarterly go out to members? Yes? And how
does one become a member?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
You can also go to our website vbmuseum dot org
and click the membership tab. There we have memberships starting
at fifty dollars for individuals, seventy five for families and up.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay, do you want to talk about any of these programs?
And I was fascinating, fascinated by the finding per American
whiskey leave only footprints, my journey through every national art
My god, oh, I want to be that person.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
So we kick off on February twenty third with Fred Minnick,
who's a Wall Street Journal Journal best selling author and
he is the foremost bourbon critic in the United States,
and he's going to talk about bourbon whiskey, which is
uniquely American, again macking off of our American Maid exhibition.
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He will have released his new book one week before
his Viureau Beach appearance, so we are we will be
our audiences will be among the first to get to
see his new book.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, will he be? Will he have them there available?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Will have them available for sale in our shop, in
our store. Okay, I do want to talk about Connor Knighton,
who is a CBS Sunday Morning correspondent. Connor has been
doing I love watching CBS Sunday Morning, and he will
be taking us through, as you mentioned, his journey through
the American National Parks.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, one more minute.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Ashley Rose Young is a food historian. We found out
recently that our audiences are really into food and wine,
so she's coming to us from the Smithsonian to talk
about American food. And we will close out with doctor
Regina Palm, who's just driving up the beach to us
from the Norton Museum of Art. She was the curator
(23:30):
when American Maid was in Houston, so she'll be offering
art historical insights and giving us some context into individual
works of art and artists.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, we are just about out of time. One more time.
How to get information online? What is the website.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Again, vbmuseum dot org.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And we're talking today about the international lecture series at
the museum and so looking forward to what's going to
be happening to the building and the future of euro
beachmu Zi Art. I thank you Sarah Kline. Great to
see you again. Thanks Willie, my pleasure. Oh wow, Okay,
(24:08):
thank you Sarah Kline, thank you Larry Brown, and thank
you listeners as always for joining us again this week
for Arts Blast on the Air. It's a podcast, a
radio show, Alexis Skill, and they're all presented by Riverside
Theater and Ballet Vero Beach covering the arts online and
an Arts Blast, the free emailed weekly Florida arts news magazine.
(24:33):
Join us again next week for another edition of Arts
Blast on the Air. I'm Willie Miller. Thanks for listening.
Welcome to Arts Blast on the Air. It's a podcast,
it's a radio show and an Alexis skill presented by
Ballet Vero Beach and Riverside Theater. They are the arts
supporting the arts in Florida. I'm Willie Miller and every
week I get to talk to people in the arts
about the arts on the Treasure Coast and beyond. Arts
(00:23):
Blast on the Air is proud to be supported by
Ballet Vero Beach. Subscriptions and single seats are available online
now for your holiday giving, and don't miss evening performances
of The Nutcracker on the Indian River through December thirteenth,
Riverside Theater with a special Nutcracker for all on the fourteenth.
(00:43):
Learn about everything at Balletverobeach dot org and now on
with the show. My guest today Sarah Kline from Vero
Beach Museum of Art and Larry Brown. Hey, Larry, how
are you?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Good morning? I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
You're looking well. You're looking perky for early morning.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I am perky. It's not that early.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It depends on who.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You are here because you are doing something with the
Vero Beach Theater Guild.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is that right, so excited to be having my quintet
come back to Vero Beach. We don't usually get to
play in Florida. Normally the Northeast where they have jazz
clubs and jazz festivals, but they don't have a lot
of jazz in Florida. But this is this is something
we get so excited about because we come down here
(01:36):
and the place is packed. The Vero Beach Theater Gold
the last two years sold out as two hundred and
twenty seats. So it's very exciting to have jazz here
on the Treasure Coast.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You know what, let's talk about you. Let's talk about
your history and your quintet. But you have I've been
exploring on YouTube and listening and having a good time,
and yesterday with my headphones on my computer, let's talk
about your history, how you got into it, and the
(02:09):
people you play with.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So I grew up in Washington, d c. The son
of a jazz drummer who played in the big band
era and used to travel with a big band called
Clyde McCoy whose hit tune was a Snowfall. It was
a Christmas tune. But my father exposed me to jazz
at a young age, which is so here. I am
(02:33):
not at a young age a professional jazz touring jazz musician.
And I got in it because my parents took me
to see live music. This is why I always encourage
people to bring your kids to see live acoustic music.
It's so important to expose them to different kinds of music,
(02:54):
and this jazz is something for the whole family. Kids
love jazz, so bring your kids. It's Ride Day, January sixteenth. Anyhow,
I grew up in Washington, d C. My quintet is
very similar to the traditional Miles Davis and John Coltrane quintets,
with trumpet, sas piano, bass and drums, and the bass
(03:17):
is an upright bas not an electric bass. Piano is
an acoustic piano, not a keyboard. And it's just it's
just very exciting music that doesn't get played today as
much as we would hope.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And do you think you could change that? Are you
doing anything education wise?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know, it's funny you mentioned the one thing I
can do to change that that it doesn't get played
much is to bring it to local audiences, which we
are doing on January sixteenth, and encouraging people to come
out and then as far as education. As a matter
of fact, I've just been appointed the director of the
Florida Summer Jazz Camp. So and yes, where it's going
(04:00):
to be next June right here in Vero Beach at
the Indian River Charter High School, the Florida Summer Jazz Camp.
It's going to be there June ah through the twelfth.
I'm the director. We have nine fantastic faculty members, wonderful
jazz musician educators teaching students of all ages, anywhere from
(04:23):
ten to ninety years old. We had last year twelve
working professional jazz musicians come to the camp as students.
So that's a lot of fun education wise.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yes, how long has the camp been going on? Is
this a new thing?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
This is a camp that has been going on for
I think it's the twelfth year now, but it's the
fifth year that I've been involved. And now as the director,
I get to set the whole agenda and pick the faculty.
And this year. Last year we were also at the
Indi River Charter High School, we had forty eight students
(05:03):
and this year we're expecting sixty.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Okay, how do people sign up?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So to sign up for the Summer jazz Camp. You
go to Jazz Society dot org. Jazz Society dot org.
The information is there. It's June eight through the twelfth.
I'm not sure the registration is up yet, but make
a note of it. After the first of the year,
it should be up. But the first and foremost thing
(05:29):
we want to do is you want to go to
the Vero Beach Theater Guild website and get tickets for
January sixteenth. Yeah, that's the that's the first order of business.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And bring your kids, bring your kids.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Why not? Indeed, Okay, maybe maybe I'm going to ask
you a question, and I believe there is no real
answer for this. What is jazz?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So? Jazz is a unique, uniquely American art form that
came from the cotton fields of the South in the
seventh in the nineteenth century and evolved as an art
form in New Orleans in the late eighteen nineties in
(06:16):
the body houses. When they got closed. In the early
twentieth century, the whole jazz scene moved to Chicago. It
moved into Kansas City and then to New York City
and then spread around the United States. But it is
definitely of African American origin. We have, I mean, all
(06:39):
of my musical heroes raw for African America. My favorite
musician is Miles Davis, and we're going to be doing
some Miles Davis on January sixteenth, as well as some
George Gershwin and some Cold Porter and some a little
bit more modern. Earn a smooth jazz. But it's it's
(07:02):
going to be it's going to be a very exciting program.
If you came last year, if you bought tickets last year,
it's a completely different show. So you haven't seen it
until you until you come.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
How do you teach jazz?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So one thing to teach jazz? The first thing when
you when you're teaching jazz, if somebody is new to
jazz and they have a classical background, excuse me, the
first thing you want to do is make sure that
they know who to listen to. I had a jazz
instructor in college and I was sitting in his office
and somebody knocked on the door and it was a
(07:40):
classical violinist, this young Asian woman, and she said, I
want to learn jazz. And he says, who have you
been listening to? She goes, well, I don't know what
you mean. She ses I want you to go listen
to jazz for a year and come back and knock
on my door in a year. You need to listen
because once you once you listen to a lot of jazz,
you start getting a basis for improvisation and then you
(08:06):
can take the next step and the next step. But
you have to have some basis to start with. And
then to teach jazz improvisation is so fun to see
these students. I'm talking about a fifty year old pianist,
somebody that plays piano, been playing for fifty years and
(08:27):
just wants to learn how to improvise. To teach that
person how to improvise is so fun. I base a
starting with chord structure. So we make sure we have
a good understanding of chord structure. And then where is
the jumping off point? How do we start and how
do we practice? Problem with learning to improvise is people
(08:49):
don't want to feel, you know, foolish, so they're intimidated.
And so to overcome that intimidation, we make a very
very safe place for them. So we we we we
talk about hears some notes, try this notes, try these notes,
and and and and people get so excited. The difference
(09:11):
between Monday morning and the concert on Friday night at
this jazz camp. You would not believe, Willie, You would
not believe the difference in these these these these students. Oh,
and they're so excited.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That's that is amazing to me. I personally cannot imagine
letting myself be that free. Is that something that you
can teach or it is?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It is something you can teach. What you can't teach
is the inspiration and the ideas. Those come between your
own ears. Okay, so once and everybody has them. The
key is to unlock them and how to translate those
ideas through your instrument. That's the key, and that and
that conduit is what we teach. How to open that up,
(09:57):
how to free that up so that it then can
have It's so exciting, it's it's so fun, and it's
so rewarding as as an instructor to see the fruits
of your labor.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Wow, you're inspiring me.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You should come. What's your instrument, Willy, I don't have one.
You don't have one, Well, you've got a few months
to pick one up.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
All right, what do you suggest?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
I don't suggest violin, that's one.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
If it doesn't have a front. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The piano is easy. The piano is easy because all
the notes are right there, They're all they're all they're
all right there, right in front of you. It's so easy.
Or or guitar.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Okay, I used to play guitar, very good, go pick
it up. No, I don't have it anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
There there are. There are guitars available for you, right,
I think right here.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Okay, we have a very little time left. Let's talk
one more time about the special appearance of the Larry
Brown Quintet at the Vero Beach Theater Guild. This is
a fundraiser who's going to be there with you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
So I'm going to have my regular quintet. Dan Jordan
is on tenor sacks, Scott Dickinson is on trumpet, Doug
Matthews is on base. What a wonderful basis he is.
And we have a new addition to the band, a
local from Vero Beach, Sam Moss. Sam is a sophomore
(11:24):
at Berkeley College and ball in Boston, and he's going
to be traveling here to Vero Beach to his home
to perform with my band. I can't say enough about
mister moss on drums on drums, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And to get tickets, people go to the Jazz Society
or to the you.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Know, they go to the Vera Beach Theater Guild. Theater
is th h e a t r E not e
r but r E Vera Beach Theater Guild. Go online
and you can get tickets easy for January sixteenth. Larry
Brown quintet.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay at Vero Beach Theaterguild dot com. And what time
seven o'clock.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Seven o'clock in there they're doing theater. They're doing stage seating,
so they have tables and seats up on the stage
right near the band, which kind of simulates like a
New York jazz club. And those seats are usually the
first to go. I think they've already sold over eighty seats.
There are still some stage seats available.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Okay, out of time. Larry Brown. Looking forward to seeing
you and hearing you on January sixteenth at the Vero
Beach Theater Guilden.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Thank you, Willie, thanks for everything you do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Thank you. Okay, let's take a break now. That was
Larry Brown. And in case you didn't know, we're looking.
Are you looking?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I know?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I am. I'm looking for some coming down the home stretch.
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
And we are back with Arts Blast on the air.
I'm Willie Miller talking with Sarah Klein. Now, Sarah, you
are the director of Education and visitor Experience at the
Vero Beach Museum of Art Es. How long have you
been there.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Now it'll be almost eight years.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
No, yes, I guess you've settled in. We want to
talk well. First of all, very briefly, holidays at the museum.
Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I know a lot about Holidays at the Museum. This Saturday,
at the Vero Beach Museum of Art, We're hosting our
annual Holidays at the Museum, which is a free, festive
celebration of the arts for families. We'll have multiple local
performance by school groups and other organizations. We'll have art
making in the studio and in the atrium. Food trucks
(16:07):
and gallery activities and a whole lot more. And the
date is December Saturday, December thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yep, So I hope we're not listening to somebody's not
listening to this.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
After that and the hour you missed it, yep, ten
am to three pm and completely free.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And that's holidays at the museum. Yes, we want to
talk about the International Lecture Series though, don't we? Yes,
Wow Wow. Tell me about the history of the series.
Have you been involved with it in all your eight years?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yes, So this is our forty fourth season of the
International Lecture Series, and since I've been at the VBMA,
I've been involved in selecting the speakers and coordinating them
with our major exhibitions. So we theme these speakers around
the major exhibition at the museum at the time.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So this is a full picture. So you have to
know far in advance what exhibitions are coming so that
you can book the speakers for those that kind of
revolve around. Wow exactly. Yes, so we have a lot
of coordination there. Yes.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
So this season we have a wonderful show of American Art,
which will showcase two hundred and fifty years of art
made by American artists, which coincides nicely with the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration
of Independence. So the show is called American Maid and
we're getting it from the Mint Museum in North Carolina.
(17:41):
And again we've themed the speakers around uniquely American themes.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Okay, I'm going to go back just a second. When
the speakers come here, have found that they are, I
don't know, taken by our small town, but our big museum.
I remember Isabella Roussolini when she do you remember when
she was here?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I wasn't here when Isabella was here, but her legend
lives on.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
She was very kind. My granddaughter's name is Isabella. I
braved it and asked her if she would record a
Hide Isabella for me, and she did. Oh my god,
she was so gracious. I think the museum has a
special atmosphere, not just for us, the people who go,
(18:36):
but for the people who come to inform, entertain whatever
you bring in, whoever you bring in, I think they
get the feeling that it's a special place.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I would agree with that one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Okay, let's talk about the series in general. People can
come in where are the speakers in the auditorium, So.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Live is available in Holmes Great Hall, okay. And then
we have a simulcast option so people can sit in
the Leonhardt Auditorium which was which is adjacent to Holmes
Great Hall. Another great option we have is to stream
it from the comfort of your home. If you're not
able to make it to the museum, you can register
and we'll send a link out on the day of
(19:20):
the lecture and you can click that link and see
and hear the lecture on your couch and your jammies
with the glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
What a wonderful thing is that new?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
No, that was a that we created that during COVID okay,
and our audiences liked it so much we kept it
for all of these years. And we have people streaming
the International Lecture Series all over Vero Beach, all over Florida,
all over the United States, all over the world.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Really wow. Now people have to register right in.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Advance, and they can register on our website VB Museum
dot org.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay, And if you want International hyphen Lecture Hyphen Series, yes, anyway,
just go to the website Bbmuseum dot org and you
will be led not only to the international lecture series,
but a lot of wonderful pages. You can see the
exhibit exhibitions they are there that are coming, more about
(20:20):
the children's program, more about the education wing.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Yeah, we have a robust schedule of programs coming up
this season, wonderful partnerships with Ballet Vero, Beach, Atlantic Classical Orchestra,
and information and tickets are all available on the website.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Well, so exciting, and not only that, you're going to
be dodging the bulldozers and am I correct?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Yes, our campus is starting to look a little different
for our upcoming expansion. We just had a wonderful groundbreaking
ceremony with over two hundred local dignitaries and people in attendance.
And as you mentioned, we will have some machinery and
equipment on campus very soon, all in the hopes of
(21:07):
a beautiful new building in the next couple of years.
We're very excited.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I just got my quarterly magazine from the museum with
I guess artists rendering, the architects rendering.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Yes, our special quarterly. Shout out to our deputy director
Suzanne Seldez for putting that together. That is one of
the first glimpses our public will have into what our
new building will look like, and we're very proud of it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Does the quarterly go out to members? Yes? And how
does one become a member?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
You can also go to our website vbmuseum dot org
and click the membership tab. There we have memberships starting
at fifty dollars for individuals, seventy five for families and up.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay, do you want to talk about any of these programs?
And I was fascinating, fascinated by the finding per American
whiskey leave only footprints, my journey through every national art
My god, oh, I want to be that person.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
So we kick off on February twenty third with Fred Minnick,
who's a Wall Street Journal Journal best selling author and
he is the foremost bourbon critic in the United States,
and he's going to talk about bourbon whiskey, which is
uniquely American, again macking off of our American Maid exhibition.
(22:30):
He will have released his new book one week before
his Viureau Beach appearance, so we are we will be
our audiences will be among the first to get to
see his new book.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Okay, will he be? Will he have them there available?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Will have them available for sale in our shop, in
our store. Okay, I do want to talk about Connor Knighton,
who is a CBS Sunday Morning correspondent. Connor has been
doing I love watching CBS Sunday Morning, and he will
be taking us through, as you mentioned, his journey through
the American National Parks.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, one more minute.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Ashley Rose Young is a food historian. We found out
recently that our audiences are really into food and wine,
so she's coming to us from the Smithsonian to talk
about American food. And we will close out with doctor
Regina Palm, who's just driving up the beach to us
from the Norton Museum of Art. She was the curator
(23:30):
when American Maid was in Houston, so she'll be offering
art historical insights and giving us some context into individual
works of art and artists.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, we are just about out of time. One more time.
How to get information online? What is the website.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Again, vbmuseum dot org.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And we're talking today about the international lecture series at
the museum and so looking forward to what's going to
be happening to the building and the future of euro
beachmu Zi Art. I thank you Sarah Kline. Great to
see you again. Thanks Willie, my pleasure. Oh wow, Okay,
(24:08):
thank you Sarah Kline, thank you Larry Brown, and thank
you listeners as always for joining us again this week
for Arts Blast on the Air. It's a podcast, a
radio show, Alexis Skill, and they're all presented by Riverside
Theater and Ballet Vero Beach covering the arts online and
an Arts Blast, the free emailed weekly Florida arts news magazine.
(24:33):
Join us again next week for another edition of Arts
Blast on the Air. I'm Willie Miller. Thanks for listening.
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