FRIDAY, NOV. 4, 2011 • 7:30 PM
$10 / $5 / Seating Chart

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The award-winning College of the Canyons Jazz Ensemble and Lab Combo Studio will present a very special show celebrating the musical arrangements, songs and projects of Dirk Fischer, the legendary College of the Canyons music professor who retired in 2005. Fischer -- who began his teaching career in 1977 as the college’s first instructor of jazz studies and director of the college’s jazz band -- arrived at a time when most academic institutions had yet to fully incorporate jazz studies programs into their curricula. During his 28 years at COC, Fischer helped build the Music Department and worked to establish several of the college’s most endeared and longstanding musical traditions, including the annual RK Downs Jazz Festival. Fischer has also worked extensively with professional orchestras and student musical groups, eventually seeing his compositions and arrangements performed by jazz ensembles in high schools, colleges and professional bands and orchestras throughout the U.S., the Netherlands, Nova Scotia and Japan.