Nikita Braguinski - Schillinger House - Berklee talk - 2020

Nikita Braguinski: “Schillinger House: When Berklee Built a Bridge to the Russian Avant-Garde” Berklee College of Music / February 26, 2020 Keywords: Joseph Schillinger, Berklee College of Music, Schillinger House, George Gershwin, Glenn Miller, Moonlight Serenade, Quincy Jones, Russian avant-garde, Music theory Description: “Join us for a presentation on Russian American composer Joseph Schillinger, whose methods were taught at Berklee College of Music in its early years. When the college opened in 1945, it was called Schillinger House. Schillinger, who taught George Gershwin, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Lawrence Berk, and many others, had a musical background in the Russian avant-garde. This makes his influence on American popular music intriguing. How did he bridge the gap between two types of music that often are seen as opposed to each other? How did he use his methods to teach students the creation of popular melodies? And did Miller’s signature tune, “Moonlight Serenade,