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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.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
04:00 PM
- 05:00 PM
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February Organ Fete
A mini-festival of organ music featuring some of the top players at Wesleyan. On Friday evening, Brian Parks MA '09 will perform University Organist and Artist in Residence Ronald Ebrecht's editions of works by Maurice Durufle (1902-1986), including the Prelude Adagio and Choral Varie sur le Veni Creator Op. 4, and the monumental Suite Op. 5. On Saturday afternoon Wesleyan organ students will perform.
Location: Memorial Chapel
Admission: FREE!
Sponsor: Music Department
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
03:00 PM
- 05:00 PM
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Music of Bresnick and Bruce
Flutists Helene Rosenblatt and Peter Standaart (Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher), and pianist Neely Bruce, Professor of Music, will perform a program that includes premieres by Mr. Bruce and composer Martin Bresnick.
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: FREE!
Sponsor: Music Department
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
07:00 PM
- 09:00 PM
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Musical Madness IV
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Contact: 860-685-2758, lsbrown@wesleyan.edu
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Friday, February 17, 2012
09:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
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Graduate Recital: Maxwell Tfirn - Pieces from Nature
"Pieces from Nature" is an experimental graduate music recital by Maxwell Tfirn that explores how plants grow throughout music. Music will include works for the piano, cello, computer and video.
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: FREE!
Sponsor: Music Department
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
08:00 AM
- 02:00 AM
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Mao: The Musical
A realization of Alan Rodi's Senior Music Composition.
Location: Patricelli 92 Theater
Admission: Free tickets available at box office the day of performance.
Sponsor: Music Department, Second Stage
URL: http://www.2ndstage.org/mao-the-musical.html
Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
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Friday, February 24, 2012
08:00 AM
- 02:00 AM
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Mao: The Musical
A realization of Alan Rodi's Senior Music Composition.
Location: Patricelli 92 Theater
Admission: Free tickets available at box office the day of performance.
Sponsor: Music Department, Second Stage
URL: http://www.2ndstage.org/mao-the-musical.html
Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
08:00 AM
- 02:00 AM
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Mao: The Musical
A realization of Alan Rodi's Senior Music Composition.
Location: Patricelli 92 Theater
Admission: Free tickets available at box office the day of performance.
Sponsor: Music Department, Second Stage
URL: http://www.2ndstage.org/mao-the-musical.html
Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
07:15 PM
- 07:45 PM
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Pre-Concert Talk: Lionel Loueke Trio
Pre-concert talk for Lionel Loueke Trio at 7:15pm.
Benin-born jazz guitarist and vocalist Lionel Loueke combines harmonic sophistication, soaring melodies and grounding in West African music to create a warm, intimate sound with his trio, which features Swedish-born bassist Massimo Biolcati and drummer Marcus Gilmore. Praised by mentor Herbie Hancock as "a musical painter," Loueke was featured on Hancock's album "River: The Joni Letters" (2007), which won Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Grammy Awards.
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: $23 general public; $19 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students
Sponsor: Music Department, Center for the Arts, Center for African American Studies, Office of Diversity and Institutional Partnerships
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
08:00 PM
- 10:00 PM
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Lionel Loueke Trio
Benin-born jazz guitarist and vocalist Lionel Loueke combines harmonic sophistication, soaring melodies and grounding in West African music to create a warm, intimate sound with his trio, which features Swedish-born bassist Massimo Biolcati and drummer Marcus Gilmore. Praised by mentor Herbie Hancock as "a musical painter," Loueke was featured on Hancock's album "River: The Joni Letters" (2007), which won Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Grammy Awards.
There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:15pm.
Location: Crowell Concert Hall
Admission: $23 general public; $19 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students
Sponsor: Music Department, Center for the Arts, Center for African American Studies, Office of Diversity and Institutional Partnerships
URL: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Contact: 860-685-3355, boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
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