![]() ![]() Every year - the week before Christmas - some 18,000 educators and their students slide into Chicago to meet, greet, share, perform and learn. After 64 years, Midwest, as it’s known, has become one of the largest gatherings of music educators in the world. It’s also time for an annual rite of passage for music education - The Midwest Clinic. ![]() So cold that friend from California shivers crossing Michigan Avenue and asks, “Why, again, do you people live here?” Shoppers bundle up and bustle down State Street in search of last-minute this and that. The tree in Daley Plaza has been decked out and glowing - all 90 feet of it - for weeks. It’s the week before Christmas in Chicago. Saxophonist Kirk Whalum (not shown) also took part in the conversation. Ramsey Lewis takes part in a live DownBeat interview at the The Midwest Clinic in December 2009. ![]()
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