[Dixielandjazz] Joyce Wein, obit

[Norman Vickers]

To: Listmates
Here is obituary from Thursday 8/18 New York Times.  She was a true
partner with husband, impresario George Wein, founder of Newport Jazz
Festival.
 
 
 
 
Joyce Wein, Executive Who Helped Produce Newport Festivals, Is Dead at
76
By PETER KEEPNEWS
Published: August 18, 2005
Correction Appended 
Joyce Wein, a former vice president of the company that produced the
Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals and numerous other events, died on
Monday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on the Upper East Side. She was
76 and lived on the Upper East Side. 
The cause was cancer, said a spokeswoman for the company, Festival
Productions, which was founded by her husband, George Wein 
Mrs. Wein was a biochemist but became professionally involved in music
through her marriage in 1959 to Mr. Wein, the founder of the Newport
festivals and the chief executive of Festival Productions. Mrs. Wein was
a vice president of the company from shortly after it was established in
the early 1960's to the late 1990's, and remained involved in its
operations until her death.
Besides the Newport events, Festival Productions presents the New
Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival in New York
and many other events worldwide. Mrs. Wein had a hand in all of them but
had especially close ties with the folk festival, which her husband
founded in 1959. For several years beginning in 1963, the festival was
run by the nonprofit Newport Folk Foundation, which Mr. and Mrs. Wein
established with the folk singer Pete Seeger and his wife, Toshi. 
Joyce Alexander was born in Boston on Oct. 21, 1928, and majored in
chemistry at Simmons College there. She was the jazz columnist for the
Simmons student newspaper and Mr. Wein was an aspiring jazz pianist when
they met at a jazz concert in Boston in 1947.
Mrs. Wein was a founder of the New York Coalition of 100 Black Women, a
charitable organization, and established the Joyce and George Wein
Professorship Fund in African-American Studies at Boston University and
the Alexander Family Endowed Scholarship Fund at Simmons.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sisters, Eugenia
Manning of San Francisco and Theodora McLaurin of Hingham, Mass.
Correction: 
An obituary yesterday about Joyce Wein, who worked on music festivals
and charities with her husband, George, misstated the name of one of her
projects. It is the George and Joyce Wein Chair in African-American
Studies at Boston University, not the George and Joyce Wein
Professorship Fund. 
 
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