Prestigious Lincoln Center Jazz Award Goes To Lower Merion Junior

Prestigious Lincoln Center Jazz Award Goes To Lower Merion Junior

In February, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced that out of 26 submissions, Leo Steinriede won the award won the 8th Annual Essentially Ellington Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition and Arranging Contest.

Steinreide is currently a Junior at Lower Merion High School.

Leo Steinreide conducts his award winning composition, “The Rhetorical Situation”. with Jamal Jones and The Composers League of Philadelphia at the Painted Bride Art Center on February 1, 2020.

Official Announcement on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Website.

At 102, Alan Tripp Had An Itch To Scratch. So He And Marvin Weisbord (89) Recorded A Jazz CD. It’s Called “Senior Songbook.”

Click here, and listen to Leo Steinriede perform his own compositions.

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Opening Shot Of 1966 Movie ‘The Trouble With Angels’ – At Merion Station

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