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Hank Levy Legacy Band: Annual Birthday Celebration at An Die Musik Live
Courtesy of Nicole Connelly | Posted on September 25, 2016
Where
An Die Musik Live
409 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
Map
410-385-2638
When
Sun, October 9, 2016
6:00 pm
At Door
Save the date
Musicians
Hank Levy Legacy Band
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
Hank Levy Legacy Band: Annual Birthday Celebration
Hank came of age in the 1940s, when big bands crisscrossed the country playing one-nighters, and when people in Baltimore and other cities regularly went out dancing in nightclubs and ballrooms. Levy was part of this milieu (he attended the Navy School of Music during his three-year hitch) and took full advantage of it in his later career as a teacher, composer, and bandleader. A Baltimore native, Hank graduated from Baltimore City College, where he led his first band, then attended several colleges, including an unhappy year at the Peabody Conservatory. Hank didn't receive a university degree until he arrived at Towson State College in 1968, where he was forced to earn one in order to teach there. He was mostly a musical autodidact, schooled in experience. In 1953, Hank played baritone saxophone in the legendary Stan Kenton Orchestra for for six months, which led to a lifelong friendship with Kenton....