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The Wesleyan University Music Department provides a unique and pioneering environment for advanced exploration committed to the study, performance, and composition of music from a perspective that recognizes and engages the breadth and diversity of the world's musics and technologies. As an integral part of one of the nation's leading liberal arts institutions, the department has enjoyed an international reputation for innovation and excellence, attracting students from around the globe since the inception of its visionary program in World Music four decades ago.
The Music, Art and Art History, Dance, Theater, and Film Departments are part of the Center for the Arts (CFA), a complex of studios, classrooms, galleries, performance spaces, departments, and programs that provide a rich and creative interdisciplinary environment for study and performance. Recent annual CFA music festivals have brought to campus a diverse array of artists, including Max Roach, Pete Seeger, Zakir Hussain (India), Thomas Mapfumo (Zimbabwe), Boukman Eksperyans (Haiti), and Boogsie Sharpe (Trinidad).
A recording studio, a computer and experimental music studio, the Center for the Arts media lab and digital video facility, the World Instrument Collection (which includes the David Tudor Collection of electronic musical instruments and instrumentation) and the Scores and Recordings Collection of Olin Library (which includes the World Music Archives) offer many learning opportunities outside of the classroom.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
12:10 PM
- 12:50 PM
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A Talk by Musician/Storyteller Hawk Henries
Hawk Henries is a musician, storyteller, artisan and member of the northeastern Algonquian tribe of Chabuna-gungamaug, Band of the Nipmunk Nation. In addition to composing and performing his own music, Hawk crafts each of his Eastern-style flutes by hand from a single piece of wood. Traveling throughout the United States and internationally, he shares his insights into spirituality through music with powerful performances in schools, museums and workshops. He seeks to give voice to peace and Sacredness with his flute playing and storytelling. Hawk lives with his family, friends and community in the forests near the coast of Maine.
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: Free Admission
Sponsor: Center for the Arts, Center for Creative Youth
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu
Contact: boxoffice@wesleyan.edu, 860.685.3355
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
08:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
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Hendrik Meurkens Samba Jazz Quartet
Meurkens has earned the right to carry the jazz harmonica torch.All About Jazz
From tranquil bossa nova treatments to burning New York samba jazz versions by the way of authentic chorinhos and in-the-pocket sambafunk, Hendrik Meurkens Samba Jazz Quartet explores the wide terrain of Brazilian jazz. The bands unique sound is defined by Hendrik Meurkens' trademark jazz harmonica, plus the swinging rhythm section of Misha Tsiganov on piano, Gustavo Amarante on bass and Adriano Santos on drums. The group explores the great Brazilian songbook from a jazz point of view and also features compositions by Hendrik Meurkens.
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: $18 general; $16 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff; $10 students
Sponsor: Center for the Arts/Center for Creative Youth
URL: www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Contact: boxoffice@wesleyan.edu; 860-685-3355
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
08:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
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Eilen Jewel & the Sacred Shakers
Jewells songs are achingly good, twanged-out elegies to a world of barbed wire, rusty trucks, and a frontier that no longer exists.Boston Globe
Boise-born and Boston-based, Eilen Jewell has quickly distinguished herself as one of the rising stars of a new generation of roots musicians. She will be joined by her band, which includes Jason Beek (drums, harmony vocals), Jerry Miller (electric, acoustic and steel guitars) and Johnny Sciascia (upright bass). Jewell and her band form the heart of the American gospel supergroup The Sacred Shakers, which brings in Daniel Kellar (violin), Eric Royer (vocals and banjo), Greg Glassman (vocals and acoustic guitar) and Daniel Fram (vocals and acoustic guitar). The Sacred Shakers, who will open the concert, offer new life to the gospel genre by revisiting the stripped down country and bluesy gospel material that has inspired them.
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: $17 general; $15 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff; $10 students
Sponsor: Center for the Arts, Center for Creative Youth
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu
Contact: boxoffice@wesleyan.edu; 860.685.3355
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
12:10 PM
- 12:50 PM
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Music from China
Music From China, under the artistic direction of Wang Guowei, is an extraordinary musical ensemble that invokes the delicacy and power of both traditional and contemporary Chinese music. The group commissions and performs innovative works that mix Chinese and Western instruments, as well as combining traditional and modern influences. The percussive strength of drums, gongs, cymbals and woodblocks combined with the sounds of silk strings and bamboo winds summons the spirit of ancient music and invokes the vitality of folk music and traditional opera. Music from China was founded in 1984 and has since performed over 111 new works by 67 composers, of which 36 are competition prizewinners. It is the first Chinese ensemble to receive an Adventurous Programming award from Chamber Music America.
Location: World Music Hall
Admission: Free Admission
Sponsor: Center for the Arts, Center for Creative Youth
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu
Contact: boxoffice@wesleyan.edu, 860.685.3355
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