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24 WINTER 2017 TAKING NOTES Trenton Makes Music is writing the city's musical history measure by measure. In 2009 JACQUI AND STERICK IVEY open Conservatory Mansion in the same building that once housed the Trenton Conservatory of Music. It's now home to the Thomas Grice Academy of Music. 2000–present "I would say music is coming back to Trenton." —Thomas Grice 1920s BIG BAND COMES TO TRENTON Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Fats Waller (above) each perform at the Carver Center. 1770s FIFE AND DRUM CORPS helps direct 2nd New Jersey Regiment troops on the battlefield and in Trenton's Old Barracks during the Revolution. 1860s TAYLOR OPERA HOUSE — named for the founder of the Taylor Ham company — opens and hosts Yankee Doodle Dandy's George M. Cohan. 1900–1910s Lyric tenor and Metropolitan Opera star RICHARD CROOKS is born in Trenton in 1900 and sings as boy soprano in local church. WILLIAMS AND WALKER perform their minstrel hit "In Dahomey" in 1902 at the Taylor Opera House before moving to Broadway. Songwriter and producer ADAM BLACKSTONE works with Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, and Kanye West. MATT ROBERTSON, LAKEWOOD CREATIVE CO./ BASSIC BLACK ENTERTAINMENT, 2016 TRENTON MAKES MUSIC begins documenting in 2014 what makes Trenton a hidden treasure of the music world. WWW.DAVIDSHIMCHOCK.COM