February 3: Ben Klein (MA program) : All Together Now - Possibilities in LArge Scale, Participant BAsed, and Object Oriented Composition Projects

David Fossum (MA program) : Rhythmic thought and style in the Ahal School of dutar performance

February 10: Garrett Field (PhD program) : From Untouched by Colonialism to Reinvented in the Colonial Encounter: The History of Indian Classical Music 1980-2006

Aaron Paige (PhD program) : Subaltern Sounds: Fashioning Folk Music in Tamil Nadu

February 17: Marcelo Rilla (MA program) : On strings writing

Eoin Callery (MA program) : ..... Based on a True Story

 

March 3: Daniel Albright (Harvard) : Debussy, Maeterlinck, and Modernism: New Perspectives on Peleas et Melisande (CFA HALL)

 

March 24: Mari Dumett (Luther Gregg Sullivan Fellow, Department of Art and Art History) : George Maciunas's Systems for Living (CFA Hall)

 

March 31: Tom Johnson (Paris) : The Road to the Four Note Opera, and where it led later (CFA HALL)

Associated events:

March 30, Memorial Chapel: performance under the direction of Helen Pridmore (Mount Allison University) of the Four Note Opera

March 31, South Church: performance by Neely Bruce of Organ and Silence

April 7: Brenda Romero (University of Colorado at Boulder) : Approaching music theory through world music (CFA HALL)

 

April 15: Greg Kot and Jim Deragotis (Chicago Public Radio) : Sound Opinions: a presentation by the noted pop music radio commentators and writers. (CFA HALL)

April 21: Neely Bruce (Wesleyan) : How Flora, or Hob in the Well, became Flora, Flora, An Opera: Charleston 1735 and Charleston 2010

April 28: Su Zheng (Wesleyan) : Shen Yun's Global Mission: A Tool of Falun Gong or Rediscovering the True Cultural Heritage?