Crossover; An American Bio

Excerpt from Carman’s Autobiography: ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carman Moore is a world-renowned Composer and Conductor, Author, and Music Critic. A dedicated educator, Moore has taught at the Yale University School of Music, Queens and Brooklyn Colleges, Carnegie-Mellon University, Manhattanville College,  and New School University.  He is presently creating a pop music album based in Outer Space and featuring Dante and Beatrice for the new SKYBAND.  He has recently completed CONCERTO FOR ORNETTE AND ORCHESTRA for jazz legend and 2006 Pulitzer prize award winner Ornette Coleman.  Particularly interested in reaching out to children, he spent several years in the 1960,s 70,s and 80’s as a teaching artist for Lincoln Center and Jazzmobile and at The Dalton School.  Moore conducted hiswork and lectured in New York public schools with the Lincoln Center Institute, which commissioned his The Magic Turn Around Town and Save the Dragon.  In 1995 he served as consultant to Wynton Marsalis on his popular PBS-broadcasthome video series for children, Marsalis On Music.  Moore is also the author of two youth-oriented books: Somebody’s Angel Child: The Story of Bessie Smith (Dell) and Rock-It (a music history and theory book for Alfred Music Publishers).  With celebrated jazz vocalist Janet Lawson he has written GRANDMA SAGE AND HER MAGIC MUSIC ROOM, an adventure story for children that is also a history of jazz.  He has served as Board member and adjudicator for severalmajor organizations, including Composers Forum, the Society of Black Composers, the N.Y. State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  In addition he has been music critic and columnist for the Village Voice and has contributed to The New York Times, The Saturday Review of Literature, Vogue, and Essence among others.”

In Carman’s fascinating life’s journey he has met many interesting and wonderful people, including:

  • Marion Cumbo
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Pauline Oliveros
  • Jerry Wexler
  • David Baker
  • Billielee Mommer
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • Tania Leon
  • Leroy Jenkins
  • Alvin Singleton
  • Ray Barretto
  • Trisha Brown
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Alvin Ailey
  • Philip Glass
  • Steve Reich
  • T.J. Anderson
  • Renee Longy
  • Morton Feldman
  • Dr. David Globus
  • Elaine Summers
  • Michael McGrady
  • B.B. King
  • Yoko Ono
  • John Lennon
  • Erroll Garner
  • La Lupe
  • Felix Cavaliere
  • Virgil Thomson
  • Ornette Coleman
  • Robert Redford
  • W.H. Auden
  • George Balanchine
  • Earl “The Pearl” Monroe
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller
  • Frank Zappa
  • Anna Sokolow
  • Lincoln Kirstein
  • John Hammond
  • Mavis Staples
  • Tina Turner
  • Jack Gee
  • Louis Armstrong