Library Music Workshop: What Makes a Great Rock Musician?

Workshop will be held across the street from the library in the McKenzie Center, Room #2, 308 W. Elm St., Salina, KS 67401
Register at: https://calendar.salinapubliclibrary.org/event/what-makes-great-rock-musician-criteria-66750

Bill Martin and Anita Chase of The Radicles present another library workshop series on rock music from historical, philosophical, and experiential viewpoints.

The winter series is "What Makes a Great Rock Musician?" Each session will examine particular influential musicians in order to explore the criteria by which the two main questions (“What makes for a great rock musician?” and “Is rock music capable of rising to the level of art?) are pursued. We would like participants to offer examples as well.

First Session “Criteria" covers: Comparison of musicianship in rock music with classical music and jazz. Creativity and craft, skill and innovation. The elusive question of musical “power.” Live vs. Studio performance. Can a piece of music, of whatever genre, be considered “great,” when its quality is especially dependent on the production (and producer)? What are other factors that are also not, strictly-speaking, part of the performative aspect?

*Class geared toward adults, but younger ages welcome.