These pages for past special events are maintained for archival interest.
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
12:10 pm
- 01:00 pm
Stephen Bennett: Harp Guitar
A native of Oregon, teacher, composer, and performer Stephen Bennett is a master of the harp guitar, a 12-stringed instrument with an extended sound chamber and 6 sub-bass strings. Based in Milford, he has released 25 albums and is the founder of the Harp Guitar Gathering, an annual event that brings together players, luthiers, scholars and fans for performances and workshops in Connecticut since 2003.
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
07:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Hartford Steel Symphony
This concert will take place in Memorial Chapel, located at 221 High Street.<br/><br/>Dance to the island rhythms of the Hartford Steel Symphony! Founded in 1989, this premier Connecticut steel pan group performs calypso, reggae, pop, classical, and jazz tunes under the musical direction of Kelvin Griffith and Curtis Greenidge, and has shared the stage with artists such as the great panist Len "Boogsie" Sharpe of Trinidad.
Memorial Chapel, 221 High Street
Monday, May 13, 2013
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Students of Stan Scott: Vivaldi, Irish, American and Hindustani Music for voice, mandolin, banjo, tabla and guitar
Vivaldi, Old-time, Irish, Bluegrass, and Hindustani Music for Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar, Voice and Tabla
Music Seminar Room 301
Saturday, May 11, 2013
02:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
MiddletownRemix: Hear More, See More - A Festival of Art and Sound
After a year of exploring, sharing, and remixing the sounds of Middletown on the MiddletownRemix website, celebrate the city's acoustic identity at a festival featuring live sets by DJ Arun Ranganathan and Wesleyan student DJs Coral Foxworth '15 and William Brewster Lee '13; the world premiere of the sound installation "Lighthouse, beside the point" by Wesleyan University Professor of Music Ronald Kuivila; the world premiere of "MTRX" (2012) by Jason Freeman of UrbanRemix performed by Wesleyan's Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble, directed by Assistant Professor of Music Paula Matthusen; a recreation of David Tudor's "Rainforest IV" (1973); a commissioned flash mob dance, choreographed by Wesleyan student Kelsey Siegel '13 to a hip-hop soundtrack incorporating sounds from MiddletownRemix; a North End Gallery Walk including exhibitions at Green Street Arts Center, MAC 650 Gallery, Middletown Framing, The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts and Cultural Center, and Ursel's Web; the commissioned art/sound installations "Camera Obscura" by Joe McCarthy and Peter Albano, and "Projected World Experience" by Marc Pettersen with Cheryl Elliott and Matt Weston; improvised sketches and scenes using sounds collected from MiddletownRemix by The Great Make Believe Society; Connecticut graffiti artist Ryan Christenson of RC Murals creating and demonstrating graffiti artwork; and food trucks from NoRA's Cupcake Company, The Whey Station, Lucky Taco, High Tide Gourmet.<br/><br/>
For more information about the festival, please visit www.middletownremix.org.<br/><br/>Presented by Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts and Green Street Arts Center; made possible with support from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Middletown Commission on the Arts; and in partnership with the City of Middletown, Middletown Public Schools, WESU 88.1FM, Community Health Center of Middletown, It's Only Natural Market, MAC 650 Gallery, Middletown Framing, North End Action Team, NoRA Cupcake Company, and The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts and Cultural Center. The festival is also part of the year-long campus and community-wide exploration Music and Public Life.
Festival Information Center: 575 Main Street, Middletown, CT (in front of It's Only Natural Market)
Friday, May 10, 2013
03:00 pm
- 04:00 pm
West African Drumming and Dance
An invigorating performance filled with the rhythms of West Africa. Choreographer Iddi Saaka and Master Drummer Abraham Adzenyah will perform with their students in West African Dance courses, as well as guest artists and drummers.
CFA Green
Friday, May 10, 2013
08:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble
The debut concert by the Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble, directed by Assistant Professsor of Music Paula Matthusen, begins with a series of works for live electronics, including premieres of new works written for the group by Professor of Music Ronald Kuivila and Carl Testa '06.
World Music Hall
Thursday, May 09, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
Javanese Gamelan and Dance
Experience the culture of Java with beginning students of Javanese gamelan and dance. The concert will include a prelude by the Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble.<br/>
World Music Hall
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
12:00 pm
- 01:00 pm
Wesleyan Chamber Music Concert
Students from the Wesleyan Chamber Music program perform works by various composers on a variety of instruments.
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
South Indian Music Student Recital
Students of Adjunct Assistant Professor B. Balasubrahmaniyan and Artist in Residence David Nelson will perform their annual recital of music from the Karnatak tradition of South India. Performances will feature vocal and instrumental music, percussion, and solkattu (spoken rhythm).
World Music Hall
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
WesWinds Spring Concert
The Wesleyan Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Sarah Bouchard Stockton, performs the works of Grainger, Ticheli, Stamp, Whitacre, and Leemans.
Crowell Concert Hall
Monday, May 06, 2013
08:00 pm
- 09:45 pm
Ebony Singers Spring Concert
Your spirits will be lifted by the Wesleyan <br/>University Ebony Singers, conducted by one of <br/>New England's leading authorities on gospel music, <br/>Dr. Marichal Monts '85.
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, May 05, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
Power to the WesKorean Drumming Beats
The Wesleyan Korean Drumming Ensemble, directed by Kyunghee Kang, performs a variety of traditional Korean drumming music and dance.
World Music Hall
Saturday, May 04, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
Chinese Music Concert
Wesleyan's Chinese Music Ensemble, directed by Huan Li, performs a variety of Chinese instrumental music--traditional, modern and hybrid.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, May 03, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
WesTaiko Spring Concert
Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Taiko students under the direction of Kaoru Watanabe perform the thunderous and exhilarating rhythms of Japanese Taiko drumming. Several dynamic styles will be showcased, demonstrating both traditional and contemporary Taiko repertoire.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, May 02, 2013
10:00 pm
- 12:00 am
Annual Organ Romp
The annual late, great organ concert features student performers as organists, pianists, and percussionists; new music and non-standard organ repertoire. Check the poster for the costume theme, and updated performer information.
Memorial Chapel
Sunday, April 28, 2013
05:00 pm
- 06:30 pm
Opera and Oratorio Ensemble Class
Students in the Opera and Oratorio Ensemble perform a variety of selections from its repertory under the direction of Priscilla Gale.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 27, 2013
07:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Wesleyan University Orchestra Spring Concert
The Wesleyan University Orchestra, under the direction of Noah Horn, performs symphonic repertoire from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 27, 2013
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Indonesian Performing Arts and Public Life Symposium: Sundanese and Javanese Puppet Plays
The Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble, under the direction of I.M. Harjito, and guest musicians will accompany two genres of Indonesian puppet play: Sundanese wayang golek and Javanese wayang kulit. Using three-dimensional rod puppets from the West Javanese puppetry tradition, guest puppeteer Kathy Foley will tell stories drawn from the epic Mahabharata. Sumarsam will tell a story from the same epic, using two-dimensional puppets from the Central Javanese puppetry tradition.
World Music Hall
Friday, April 26, 2013
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Indonesian Performing Arts and Public Life Symposium: Talk by Sarah Weiss and Ronald Jenkins
Sarah Weiss, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Yale University, will speak about past and present hybridity in gamelan and wayang. Wesleyan Professor of Theater Ronald Jenkins, the discussant, will identify issues and approaches that the presenter offers, and relate them to his own work on Balinese wayang.
World Music Hall
Thursday, April 25, 2013
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Indonesian Performing Arts and Public Life Symposium: Indonesian Puppetry Lecture Demonstration
Sundanese three-dimensional rod-puppet plays (wayang golek) and two-dimensional Javanese shadow-puppet plays (wayang kulit) are two of the well-known cultural performances in Indonesia. Kathy Foley, Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Institute of Sacred Music Fellow at Yale University, and Wesleyan University Professor of Music Sumarsam will talk about performance technique and musical accompaniment of the plays. The lecture demonstration will be followed by a wayang and gamelan rehearsal by the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble, under the direction of Artist in Residence I.M. Harjito.
World Music Hall
Saturday, April 20, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:00 pm
Senior Recital: Brewster Lee
Brewster Lee's senior recital, "Virtuality: Myths of Future Imaginations."
World Music Hall
Sunday, April 14, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:00 pm
Senior Recital: Adam Brudnick
"Adam and Adam's Magical Mystery Tour" will feature delectable ditties ranging from raucous rock to funky funk, suave soul to eclectic electronica, and everything in between. Satisfaction guaranteed, or your money back!
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, April 12, 2013
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Senior Recital: Sam Friedman
Sam Friedman and friends perform his senior recital.
Crowell Concert Hall
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
08:00 pm
- 09:15 pm
Graduate Recital: Rafael Romo-Tavizon
Rafael Romo-Tavizon's "Noise Sculptured" is a set of new works with different configurations, including orchestra, solos, fixed media, live electronics with multichannel arrangements and automated organ and video, all combined into one single piece.
Memorial Chapel
Thursday, April 04, 2013
09:00 pm
- 11:30 pm
Senior Recital: Henry Robertson
Henry Robertson's "Transitive Nightfall of Diamonds" will feature original compositions for exploring the cosmos. The songs have elements of rock, jazz, bluegrass, folk, funk, and Hindustani music and are influenced by the philosophies of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, March 30, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
Senior Recital: Zachary Sulsky
"Easy to Love: The Songs of Cole Porter" will feature Zachary Sulsky's mid-sized jazz ensemble performing a selection of original songs, and new arrangements of the songs of Cole Porter.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, March 30, 2013
09:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Senior Recital: Robert Burvant
"The Melting Pot: A Practice in Variation" is in partial fulfillment of Robert Burvant's Senior Thesis.
World Music Hall
Friday, March 29, 2013
04:00 pm
- 05:30 pm
Senior Recital: Alex Lough
Alex Lough's "Reshaping Traditions" draws on traditions from sacred harp singing and Hindustani music while performing with mixed digital media, and aims to create an entirely new sonic experience. Alex will improvise melodies found in the Sacred Harp.
CFA Hall
Thursday, March 28, 2013
09:00 pm
- 10:30 pm
Senior Recital: Tobias Butler
A senior music recital by Tobias Butler.
200 Church Street, Middletown, CT
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Senior Recital: Ashlin Aronin
Ashlin Aronin's senior music recital, "L'Orgue: A Dialogue with the French Modernists."
Memorial Chapel
Sunday, March 03, 2013
03:00 pm
- 04:30 pm
Connecticut College Faculty Reed Trio: Americans & Paris
The Connecticut College Faculty Reed Trio, featuring Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher Libby Van Cleve on oboe, Thomas Labadorf on clarinet, and Rebecca Noreen on bassoon, perform a recital featuring pieces by 20th-century French composers such as Darius Milhaud and Joseph Canteloube, and American music, including the new work "Lines of Desire" by Connecticut composer Jack Vees.
The Russell House
Saturday, March 02, 2013
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Senior Recital: Mark Bennett & Andrew Pfeiffer
Mark Bennett & Andrew Pfeiffer's "Branching Out: In Search of a Sound" attempts to capture various points along a timeline of important musical evolutions in the Americas. The seniors will explore these evolutions of the music within both a full-band context and in an acapella vocal context.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, March 01, 2013
09:00 am
- 05:00 pm
The New Transnationalisms of Music Symposium
Beverly Diamond (St. John's Memorial University, Newfoundland), Anne Rasmussen (The College of William & Mary), Aram Sinreich '94 (Rutgers University), Joshua Tucker (Brown University) and Marc Perman '94 PhD (Brown University) will engage with Wesleyan faculty and ethnomusicology graduate students on the ways that today's international systems, circuits, and grassroots activists are changing music globally.<br/>
The Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown, CT
Thursday, February 28, 2013
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Orlando Consort
25 years of The Orlando Consort. A celebration of medieval music, featuring Machaut's "Le Voir Dit" and the sacred works of Dunstaple, Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin Des Prez and Gombert. Co-sponsored by the Thomas and Catharine McMahon Fund, Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Medieval Studies, College of Letters, Music Department, and the Center for the Arts.<br/><br/>
Memorial Chapel
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Q & A Session with Ian Mackaye
Ian MacKaye from the Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Fugazi, and the Evens, will answer your questions on Wednesday, February 27th. He is the owner of Dischord Records and is very prominent in the hardcore/post-hardcore music scene.
CFA Hall
Sunday, February 24, 2013
02:00 pm
- 06:00 pm
Senior Recital: Shauna Pratt
Shauna Pratt's "Sacred Voices" sound installation seeks to highlight and unite the musics of many faiths in one space.
World Music Hall
Thursday, February 21, 2013
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
Senior Recital: Brian Goodell
Brian Goodell's senior recital, "Music of the Night Chorus."
Memorial Chapel
Sunday, February 03, 2013
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Violin & Piano: Dramatic Partners
Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher Erika Schroth maintains a multi-faceted career as a pianist, performing as a solo and collaborative artist across the United States and Europe. She has worked on several productions as Music Director for Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as at the Yale Institute for Music Theatre and the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute. Violinist Netta Hadari was born in London to Israeli parents, and has performed solo engagements all over the world. He conducts the Greater New Haven Youth Orchestra, and composes music for children's stories. At Wesleyan, the duo will perform masterpieces of the repertoire--Violin Sonatas by Claude Debussy and Edvard Grieg (No. 3 in c minor)-- as well as other gems, including Jascha Heifetz's arrangement of "It Ain't Necessarily So."
Russell House All Rooms
Friday, February 01, 2013
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Music at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
New England Premiere<br><br/>Pre-concert talk at 7:15pm Wesleyan Professor of Music Neely Bruce<br><br/>"Music is the passion of my soul." --Thomas Jefferson<p><br/>Curated by violinist Paul Woodiel, the New England premiere of "Music at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello" features what might have been heard after-hours in the Charlottesville, Virginia home of the third U.S. president (the European concert music of Corelli, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart), as well as in the slaves' quarters (African American and European American traditional musics). This concert features performances by singer, guitarist and banjo player Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, Dennis James on glass harmonica, singer Jennifer Hope Wills, violinists Robert Mealy and Mazz Swift, cellist Katie Rietman, Christopher Layer on bagpipes and flutes, and Wesleyan Professor of Music Neely Bruce on harpsichord.<br><br>A Crowell Concert Series event presented by the Music Department and the Center for the Arts. This performance is part of "Music & Public Life", a year-long campus and community-wide exploration, celebrating and studying the sounds, words, and spirit of music at the local, national, and transnational levels through concerts, workshops, gatherings, and courses, all designed to cross disciplines.<br/><br><br><br/>There will also be a free lecture/demonstration of the instruments played during the concert, including fiddle, fife, banjo, harpsichord, and glass harmonica, on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 11am in Crowell Concert Hall.<br/>
Crowell Concert Hall
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
04:15 pm
- 06:00 pm
Reception to Celebrate Alvin Lucier's Book, Music 109
Please join us for light refreshments and good conversation, to celebrate the release of Alvin Lucier's Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music. Wednesday, December 12, at 4:15, in Music Rehearsal Room 003 / The Daltry Room. Sponsored by Wesleyan Music Department and Wesleyan University Press.
Rehearsal Hall 003 (Daltry Room)
Saturday, December 08, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
John Cage & Public Life: "Song Books" by John Cage
David Barron and Wesleyan Professors of Music Ron Kuivila and Neely Bruce perform "Song Books" (1970) by John Cage. Vocalist Anne Rhodes MA '06 will be featured, recreating the role performed by Phyllis Bruce numerous times between 1978 and 1987.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, December 07, 2012
04:30 pm
- 05:30 pm
John Cage & Public Life: Richard Kostelanetz Lecture
Richard Kostelanetz, the noted literary artist and author of the first biography of John Cage, will discuss the social dimension of John Cage's work. The lecture will be followed by a performance of John Cage's "Lecture on the Weather" (1975), which was commissioned for the U.S. bicentennial and intended to be performed by Americans who have renounced citizenship. The piece is comprised of texts drawn from the writings of Henry David Thoreau, a sequence of environmental recordings by Maryanne Amacher, and a film of fragments from the drawings of Thoreau by Luis Frangella. The work is prefaced with the statement of a political credo read by the composer that seems astonishingly contemporary in its concerns, and concludes with the following dedication: "to the USA, that it may become just another part of the world, no more, no less."
CFA Hall
Friday, December 07, 2012
08:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
John Cage & Public Life: Etcetera & HPSCHD
The Wesleyan University Orchestra will perform John Cage's "Etcetera" (1973), which was commissioned by Wesleyan University for the inauguration of the Center for the Arts. This orchestra piece calls for three conductors who stand before stations of two, three, and four chairs. Orchestra members, seated around these stations and gently playing cardboard boxes, may elect to move to a station and submit to the direction of one of the conductors. In this way, the piece presents the orchestra not as a factory of sound unified by the baton of its conductor, but as a heterophonic play of individual freedoms and group commitments.<br/><br/>Following the performance of "Etcetera" will be an extended performance of "HPSCHD" (1969) by the Wesleyan New Music Alliance in Fayerweather Beckham Hall. "HPSCHD" was composed collaboratively by John Cage and Lejaren Hiller as an attempt to enact the possibilities of computer music in terms of abundance and variety rather than singular control. First performed at the University of Illinois, the work is presented as an open environment in which the audience freely moves between up to seven harpsichord soloists while enveloped in a environment of up to 51 distinct channels of sound generated via tape playback systems.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, December 06, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Javanese Gamelan and Dance
Experience the culture of Java with beginning students of Javanese gamelan and dance. The concert will include a prelude by the Wesleyan Youth Gamelan Ensemble.
World Music Hall
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
04:00 pm
- 06:00 pm
World Guitar Ensemble Concert
This concert features the World Guitar Ensemble performing a variety of world music under the direction of Carver Blanchard.
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
WesWinds presents Sacred Harp
The Wesleyan Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Peter Hadley, will perform music inspired by hymns, carols and more with works by Jay Bocook, Alfred Reed and Morten Laurdisen. Special guests Neely Bruce and other shape note singers.
Crowell Concert Hall
Monday, December 03, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Ebony Singers Winter Concert
Your spirits will be lifted by the Wesleyan University Ebony Singers, conducted by one of New England's leading authorities on gospel music, Dr. Marichal Monts '85. Be prepared to clap, dance, and sing along.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, December 01, 2012
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
Candlelight Concert
Experience the Wesleyan Singers performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Israel in Egypt", which is famous for choruses composed with passages from the Book of Exodus about "The Plagues of Egypt" with soloists Jane Abolafia, Maggie Feldman-Piltch, Alexandra Fireman, Rachel Fox, Justin Greene, Andrew Hove, Jason Sheng Jia, Olakumbi Kuti, Katie Lindeman, Teresa Paterson, Gabriel Rosenberg, Borworn Satayopas, and Jeremy Senie; accompanied by Brian Parks, organ. Directed by Artist in Residence and University Organist Ronald Ebrecht.
Memorial Chapel
Saturday, December 01, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble and Javanese Dance
The Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble, an orchestra of bronze gongs, xylophones, drums, string and voices under the direction of Artist in Residence I.M. Harjito and Professor of Music Sumarsam, presents classical music of central Java, and dance directed by Artist in Residence Urip Sri Maeny.
World Music Hall
Friday, November 30, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Music from East Asia
This concert features Wesleyan's East Asian Music Ensembles presenting a variety of musical styles and repertories from East Asian cultures.
World Music Hall
Thursday, November 29, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Ghanaian Drumming and Singing
A festive concert featuring the drumming music of Ghana with Adjunct Professor of Music Abraham Adzenyah and his advanced drumming class, with performances by guest dancers Vida Mawufemor and Mama Yaa McCoy as well as alumnus Rob Lancefield '82, MA'93, PhD'05. The beginning class features a chorus singing traditional songs.
Crowell Concert Hall
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Braxton Ensemble Concert
Professor of Music Anthony Braxton's student ensemble performs his compositions.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, November 17, 2012
02:00 pm
- 03:30 pm
"The Last Days of the Old Wild Boy" by Rinde Eckert
An inaugural recipient of a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (2012), Rinde Eckert has built a dynamic theatrical logic that is fiercely interdisciplinary. The Grammy Award-winning musician, writer, composer, librettist, and director will perform the world premiere of a new work developed during his residency at Wesleyan. "The Last Days of the Old Wild Boy" is about a man raised by wolves who finds himself toward the end of his life at the top of the food chain. Powerful and erudite, he longs for a return to the wildness of the wolf he was--but how does one recover one's original, less conditioned or acculturated self? What is gained in the effort? What is lost in translation? This work is commissioned by the Center for the Arts, and is made possible by the Creative Campus Initiative and leadership support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
CFA Theater
Saturday, November 17, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Wesleyan Orchestra Winter Concert
The Wesleyan University Orchestra under Music Director Peter Hadley presents symphonic repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, November 16, 2012
07:15 pm
- 08:00 pm
Dither Electric Guitar Quartet: Pre-Performance Talk
Pre-performance talk by Wesleyan Assistant Professor of Music Paula Matthusen<br/><br/>Dither, an electric guitar quartet formed in 2007 by Taylor Levine, David Linaburg, Joshua Lopes, and James Moore, is dedicated to an eclectic mix of experimental repertoire which spans from new commissions and original compositions to improvisation, electronic manipulation, and multimedia works. With sounds ranging from clean pop textures to heavily processed noise, from tight rhythmic unity to cacophonous sound mass, Dither's music wholeheartedly embraces the beautiful, engulfing, and often gloriously loud sound of electric guitars. A Crowell Concert Series event presented by the Music Department and the Center for the Arts.<br/><br/><br/>"The electric guitar quartet Dither, typifying this nebulous twenty-first century, brings massive chops with an egalitarian sense of purpose to every piece of music."<br/>--Free Music Archive
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, November 16, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Dither Electric Guitar Quartet
Dither, an electric guitar quartet formed in 2007 by Taylor Levine, David Linaburg, Joshua Lopes, and James Moore, is dedicated to an eclectic mix of experimental repertoire which spans from new commissions and original compositions to improvisation, electronic manipulation, and multimedia works. With sounds ranging from clean pop textures to heavily processed noise, from tight rhythmic unity to cacophonous sound mass, Dither's music wholeheartedly embraces the beautiful, engulfing, and often gloriously loud sound of electric guitars. A Crowell Concert Series event presented by the Music Department and the Center for the Arts.<br/><br/><br/>"The electric guitar quartet Dither, typifying this nebulous twenty-first century, brings massive chops with an egalitarian sense of purpose to every piece of music."<br/>--Free Music Archive
Crowell Concert Hall
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
04:15 pm
- 06:00 pm
Music and Public Life: A Talk by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times
Ben Ratliff has been a jazz and pop critic for <i>The New York Times</i> since 1996. He has written three books: "The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music" (2008); "Coltrane: The Story of a Sound" (2007) a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings" (2002).
Rehearsal Hall 003 (Daltry Room)
Friday, November 09, 2012
08:30 pm
- 10:00 pm
Music & Public Life: 11th annual Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns - Merita Halili & The Raif Hyseni Orchestra
Ethel Raim, Artistic Director of New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance, curates an evening of performances by Merita Halili & The Raif Hyseni Orchestra and La Cumbiamba eNeYe. Merita Halili is one of Albania's top performers, renowned for her stunning voice, prodigious range and technique. Raif Hyseni, originally from the Republic of Kosova, leads the most sought-after Albanian music ensemble in the United States. Together their performances thrill with masterful interpretations of instrumentals and urban folk songs from both Albania and the Republic of Kosova. Martin Vejarano is a multipercussionist and the director of the powerfully rhythmic ensemble La Cumbiamba eNeYe. Taking its name from traditional openair gatherings, La Cumbiamba explores the Colombian musical styles of cumbia, puya and mapale with the use of traditional instruments from the African diaspora, as well as those of the Indians of Colombia and the European settlers.
Fayerweather 202 (Beckham Hall)
Thursday, November 08, 2012
07:30 pm
- 10:00 pm
Music and Public Life: 11th annual Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns Keynote Address by Anthony Seeger; Performances by Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem; Cross Street A.M.E. Zion Church Unity Choir
Distinguished professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Ethnomusicology Archive at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Anthony Seeger has published numerous articles focused on issues of land and human rights for Brazilian Indians, archiving and intellectual property, and ethnomusicological theory and method. Mr. Seeger was the Executive Producer of all recordings issued on the Smithsonian Folkways label between 1988 and 2000. His keynote address will be followed by performances by two Middletown groups: Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem, a gleeful string band with sparkling original songs as well as a repertoire that spans 150 years of American music; and the Cross Street A.M.E. Zion Church Choir, singing contemporary gospel, praise and worship music under the direction of Wesleyan University Adjunct Professor of Music and vibraphonist Jay Hoggard.
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, November 04, 2012
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Dead Cat Bounce: Chance Episodes
Founded 15 years ago by Matt Steckler '97, the jazz group Dead Cat Bounce invokes Charles Mingus and the World Saxophone Quartet, featuring four saxophonists-- Mr. Steckler, Jared Sims, Charlie Kohlhase, and Terry Goss--plus bassist Dave Ambrosio and drummer Bill Carbone (Ph.D. candidate). The band will perform Mr. Steckler's compositions from their fourth album Chance Episodes (2011), which was praised in Downbeat and Jazz Times magazines.
Russell House All Rooms
Friday, November 02, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
B. Balasubrahmaniyan: Vocal Music of South India
Vocalist B. Balasubrahmaniyan, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, is joined by Artist in Residence David Nelson on mridangam and violinist L. Ramakrishnan in a concert dedicated to the memory of T. Viswanathan. The concert will open with a performance by their students.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, November 01, 2012
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Music & Public Life: Kumori Kagura
Experience a centuries-old folk music and dance tradition from northern Japan that even the ferocious earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 could not destroy. Hailing from Tohoku, a region often referred to as a "treasure chest" of folk arts, the practice of Kuromori Kagura can be traced back to the 17th century when it began in honor of the divine spirit of the Kuromori Shrine in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture. Designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Asset by the Japanese government, the group will perform a selection of dances from their vast repertoire which includes furious jumps, brisk turns and whimsical moves accompanied by percussion and fue (Japanese flute), revealing a whole new dimension of Japan's traditional performing arts. The four-city North American tour of Kuromori Kagura is produced and organized by Japan Society, New York, and is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in the fiscal year 2012, The Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program, and the Asahi Shimbun Foundation.
Crowell Concert Hall
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
04:15 pm
- 06:00 pm
Music & Public Life: Instrumental Influence - A Discussion of Musical Trends in Political Advertising
Using data from the Wesleyan Media Project, this presentation will analyze the content of current political ads and the types of music they contain. The discussion will highlight music's role in political advertising today and the emotions they help convey, and will include numerous audio/visual examples from the 2010 midterm elections and the 2012 presidential election.<br/>
Rehearsal Hall 003 (Daltry Room)
Sunday, October 28, 2012
05:00 pm
- 07:00 pm
Music & Public Life: Los Trovadores de America
Hartford-based mariachi band Los Trovadores de America will perform in an early celebration of the Mexican holiday, Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead). This event includes dinner with the concert. Reservations are required - please call 860-983-7963 or email jcormack@wesleyan.edu.<br/><br/>This event is co-sponsored by Iguanas Ranas and the Middletown House Concert Series, a local not-for-profit organization presenting local, nationally-based, and internationally renowned musicians. The event will be family-friendly and will include a dinner made with ingredients that are typically used for the holiday. There will be both meat and vegetarian options. Desserts especially prepared for Dia de los Muertos will be offered, and goodie bags celebrating Halloween will be distributed to attending children. There will also be a raffle to help support the Middletown House Concert Series, which is now in its 10th year. Items will include all things Mexican or Mexico-themed.
Iguanas Ranas, 484 Main Street, Middletown
Sunday, October 21, 2012
11:00 am
- 01:00 pm
Navaratri Festival: Saraswati Puja (Hindu Ceremony)
This religious service, led by A. V. Srinivasan, marks the most auspicious day of the year for beginning new endeavors. The audience may participate and bring instruments, manuscripts and other items for blessing.
World Music Hall
Sunday, October 21, 2012
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Navaratri Festival: Rama Vaidyanathan: Bharata Natyam
For the past twenty years, Rama Vaidyanathan has been considered one of the finest interpreters of the South Indian dance form "bharata natyam," having trained intensively under the legendary dancer Yamini Krishnamurty and the eminent Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan. "The New York Times" described Rama's New York debut last October as "keenly focused," "vivid" and "exciting."
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, October 20, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Navaratri Festival: T.V. Sankaranarayanan
T.V. Sankaranarayanan is one of the most sought-after and widely acclaimed Carnatic vocalists. Performed with his rich and vibrant tone, his singing recaptures the beautiful phrases and "brikas" (ornaments similar to trills) of his uncle and guru, Madurai Mani Iyer. Mr. Sankaranarayanan is particularly noted for his emotional expressiveness and technical virtuosity.
Crowell Concert Hall
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
04:15 pm
- 06:15 pm
Navaratri Festival: Colloquium: The Wesleyan Legacy of T. Viswanathan (1927-2002)
The internationally renowned musician and teacher T. Viswanathan taught at Wesleyan from 1975 to 2002 and founded Wesleyan's Navaratri Festival. A panel of his students will discuss aspects of his profound legacy at Wesleyan to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his passing. Wesleyan Music Department faculty members B. Balasubrahmaniyan and David Nelson will be joined by Josepha Cormack Viswanathan Ph.D. '92 and Douglas Knight '70. A reception will follow.
CFA Hall
Sunday, October 07, 2012
03:00 pm
- 04:30 pm
Neely Bruce & Constance Gee: "New & Recent Music for Viola and Piano"
Wesleyan Professor of Music and pianist Neely Bruce and violist Constance Gee (Assistant Professor of Viola at the University of South Carolina) will perform Mozart's Sonata in F Major arranged by Henry Brant, Mr. Bruce's "Grand Duo," David Jaffe's "Cluck, Old Hen" Variations for Solo Viola, and Paul Hindemith's first Viola Sonata.
Russell House All Rooms
Friday, September 28, 2012
07:15 pm
- 07:45 pm
Music & Public Life: Voices of Afghanistan: Pre-Performance Talk
Pre-performance talk by Wesleyan Professor of Music <br/>Mark Slobin<br/><br/>Vocalist Ustad Farida Mahwash, the only woman to receive the title of "master" in Central or South Asia, is celebrated around the globe for her exquisite approach to poetic ghazals (folk songs). Artistic Director and rubab (double-chambered lute) virtuoso Homayoun Sakhi creates an acoustically rich crossroads for sawol-jawab (an interplay of questions and answers), exploring traditional and contemporary Afghan melodies on the inaugural tour of "Voices of Afghanistan," which includes the musicians of The Sakhi Ensemble on tabla, harmonium, and tula (flute). A Crowell Concert Series event presented by the Music Department and the Center for the Arts.<br/><br/>"The ensemble's music, alive with cyclic tabla rhythms and spiraling rubab phrases, somehow echoed the sounds and intensity of the times."<br/>--The New York Times
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, September 28, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Music & Public Life: "Voices of Afghanistan"
Vocalist Ustad Farida Mahwash, the only woman to receive the title of "master" in Central or South Asia, is celebrated around the globe for her exquisite approach to poetic ghazals (folk songs). Artistic Director and rubab (double-chambered lute) virtuoso Homayoun Sakhi creates an acoustically rich crossroads for sawol-jawab (an interplay of questions and answers), exploring traditional and contemporary Afghan melodies on the inaugural tour of "Voices of Afghanistan," which includes the musicians of The Sakhi Ensemble on tabla, harmonium, and tula (flute). A Crowell Concert Series event presented by the Music Department and the Center for the Arts. <br/><br/>"The ensemble's music, alive with cyclic tabla rhythms and spiraling rubab phrases, somehow echoed the sounds and intensity of the times."<br/>--The New York Times
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, September 27, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
The Musical Singularity
Wesleyan composers premiere organ works to be played by the Wesleyan University pipe organ's computerized systems. There will also be a performance of a work for all three of the Chapel's organs.
Memorial Chapel
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
04:15 pm
- 05:30 pm
Music Department Colloquium: "Voices of Afghanistan"
Ustad Farida Mahwash, "the Voice of Kabul," will discuss her music and life as a female vocalist in Afghanistan. Rubab virtuoso Homayoun Sakhi and members of The Sakhi Ensemble will talk about the group's instrumentation and performance practice.
CFA Hall
Friday, September 07, 2012
08:30 pm
- 10:00 pm
Bach to School
Antonio Soler wrote concertos for two organs, which will be performed downstairs in Memorial Chapel on two pipe organs in separate rooms by Alex Kelley '13 and Jason Sheng Jia '13, using their smartphones to coordinate their performance. Segue upstairs, where Artist in Residence and University Organist Ronald Ebrecht will perform works by Bach, Bruce, Mozart, Scott and Sowande.
Memorial Chapel
Thursday, July 19, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Dave Liebman Quartet
Grammy-nominated saxophonist David Liebman has performed with artists including Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Bob Moses, Chick Corea, John Scofield, and Billy Hart over the past four decades. Since 2002, Mr. Liebman's quartet has featured guitarist Vic Juris, bassist Tony Marino and drummer Marko Marcinko, and has explored a wide variety of contemporary styles ranging from bebop and free jazz to fusion and Brazilian. Mr. Liebman was named a National Endowment for the Arts "Jazz Master" in 2011. <br/><br/>"The intimacy of expression they achieved and the nimbleness of line they articulated attested to the versatility of this band, one of the most accomplished in jazz today."
<br/>--Chicago Tribune
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, July 19, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
David Liebman Quartet
Grammy-nominated saxophonist David Liebman has performed with artists including Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Bob Moses, Chick Corea, John Scofield, and Billy Hart over the past four decades. Since 2002, Mr. Liebman's quartet has featured guitarist Vic Juris, bassist Tony Marino and drummer Marko Marcinko, and has explored a wide variety of contemporary styles ranging from bebop and free jazz to fusion and Brazilian. Mr. Liebman was named a National Endowment for the Arts "Jazz Master" in 2012.<br/><br/>"The intimacy of expression they achieved and the nimbleness of line they articulated attested to the versatility of this band, one of the most accomplished in jazz today."
<br/>Chicago Tribune
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
12:10 pm
- 01:00 pm
Rinde Eckert: Performance Musings
Grammy Award-winning musician, writer, composer, librettist, performer and director Rinde Eckert has built a dynamic theatrical logic that is fiercely interdisciplinary. An inaugural recipient of a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (2012), this fall Mr. Eckert will be presenting a new play entitled "The Last Days of the Old Wild Boy" at Wesleyan. Mr. Eckert will perform excerpts of his work and discuss his creative process. <br/><br/>Rinde Eckert is a 2012 Danspace / Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance Artist in Residence.<br/><br/>"[Rinde Eckert is] an artist who travels regularly into the upper strata of myth, philosophy, classical music and world literature."
<br/>New York Times
CFA Hall
Thursday, July 05, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Alma Moyo
Founded 10 years ago in the South Bronx by lead singer and percussionist Alex LaSalle, the intergenerational band Alma Moyo performs Afro-Puerto Rican bomba folk music featuring dynamic drumming, dancing, and rich vocals.<br/><br/>"With the heart and soul of Puerto Rican music, Alma Moyo generates life, heat and love."<br/>
My Latino Voice<br/><br/>(Rainsite: Crowell Concert Hall)
CFA Green
Saturday, May 26, 2012
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Exhibition: <i>work divided by time</i> -- A Sound Installation by Assistant Professor of Music <b>Paula Matthusen</b>
HOURS:<br>Friday, May 25 & Saturday, May 26: 7-10pm<br><br/><br/><p><i>work divided by time</i> engages with the cultural concepts of power, energy, and time. The installation derives its inspiration in part from the intricate work of the Bily Brothers, who, having never left a 35-mile radius of their home nestled within the Czech community of Spillville, Iowa, constructed enormous mechanical clocks depicting the world reflected to them by newspaper and other printed publications. <i>work divided by time</i> creatively evokes the work of the Bily Brothers--clearly of a different era--to form a reflective space. The installation features a series of handmade, wooden instruments modeled after Christmas pyramid toys. The space, the instruments, and the sounds emanating from within them pay humble homage to the work of the Bily Brothers, using recordings of the music boxes within the clocks as the basis for the sounds within the space. <i>work divided by time</i> was commissioned by the Center for the Arts as a part of Feet to the Fire: Fueling the Future, made possible by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and with support from The Bily Clocks Museum in Spillville, Iowa.
Van Vleck Observatory, 96 Foss Hill Drive
Friday, May 11, 2012
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
West African Drumming and Dance
An invigorating performance filled with the rhythms of West Africa. Choreographer Iddi Saaka, World Dance Artist in Residence, and Master Drummer Abraham Adzenyah will be performing with their students in West African Dance Courses I, II and III, as well as guest artists and drummers.<br/><br/>Rain site: Crowell Concert Hall
CFA Green
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
South Indian Music Students Recital
Students of B. Balasubrahmaniyan and David Nelson will perform their annual end-of-year recital of Karnatak singing, instrumental music, solkattu and percussion.
CFA Hall
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
WesWinds Spring Concert
The Wesleyan Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Private Lessons Teacher Peter Hadley, will perform an exciting array of pieces for winds and percussion.
Crowell Concert Hall
Monday, May 07, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Ebony Singers Spring Concert
Your spirits will be lifted by the Wesleyan University Ebony Singers, conducted by one of New England's leading authorities on gospel music, Dr. Marichal Monts '84.
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, May 06, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Power to the WesKorean Drumming Beat
This concert by the Wesleyan Korean Drumming Ensemble showcases the dynamic mixture of traditional drumming dance of Korean p'ungmulnori.
World Music Hall
Sunday, May 06, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Dream of the Red Chamber
The Wesleyan Chinese Music Ensemble, in collaboration with the Wesleyan Orchestra and Chorus, will present works associated with the classic Chinese novel "Dream of the Red Chamber", and music in various regional styles. Vocalist Yang Min will sing some of the most famous pieces composed by Wang Liping.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, May 05, 2012
09:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Collegium Musicum: 17th Century Funeral Music
The Wesleyan University Collegium Musicum performs the diverse vocal and instrumental repertories of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods of European music history under the direction of Associate Professor of Music Jane Alden.
Memorial Chapel
Friday, May 04, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
WesTaiko Spring Concert
The Introductory and Advanced Taiko students under the direction of Kaoru Watanabe perform the thunderous and exhilarating rhythms of Japanese Taiko drumming. Several dynamic styles will be showcased, demonstrating both traditional and contemporary Taiko repertoire.<br/><br/>Watch a video of the performance by the Wesleyan Taiko Ensemble from WTNH's "Connecticut Style" <a href="http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/ct_style/stage-8-the-wesleyan-taiko-ensemble" target="_blank">here</a>.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, May 03, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
An Evening of Javanese Gamelan and Dance
Experience the culture of Java with students of Wesleyan Javanese Gamelan and Dance under the direction of Professor of Music Sumarsam and Dance Artist in Residence Urip Sri Maeny. <br/>
World Music Hall
Thursday, May 03, 2012
10:00 pm
- 12:00 am
Annual Organ Romp
The annual closing of the organ concert series features Wesleyan student organists, pianists and percussionists performing new music and non-standard organ repertoire. Check www.wesleyan.edu/cfa for the costume theme, as well as updated performer and program information.
Memorial Chapel
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Anthony Braxton Large Ensemble
Professor of Music Anthony Braxton's student ensemble performs his compositions.
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Balinese Gamelan and Dance
An evening of traditional and contemporary Balinese music and dance.
World Music Hall
Sunday, April 29, 2012
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Piano Music of Neely Bruce: Part I
Professor of Music Neely Bruce begins a ten-concert cycle of his complete piano works. Each of the concerts in the cycle will feature seventy minutes of music.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 28, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Senior Recital: David Barach
A senior music recital by David Barach, featuring solo piano and chamber music.
Memorial Chapel
Saturday, April 28, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Jay Hoggard Quartet
Vibraphonist Jay Hoggard will be performing with pianist and organist James Weidman and drummer Yoron Israel, who have performed and recorded as an ensemble with Mr. Hoggard for more than fifteen years. The group will be joined by special guests, including Wesleyan Professor of Music and saxophonist Anthony Braxton, percussionist Kwaku Kwaakye Martin Obeng, bassist Santi Debriano, woodwind player Marty Erlich, and harpist Brandee Younger, to perform Mr. Hoggard's compositions. This concert will feature the world premiere of Mr. Hoggard's multi-part suite Sonic Hieroglyphs from Wood, Metal, and Skin, dedicated to the inspiration of Wangari Maathai, the late Nobel Peace Prize recipient from Kenya.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, April 27, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Concert
The Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra, directed by Adjunct Professor of Music Jay Hoggard, and the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jazz Ensemble Coach Noah Baerman, perform an exciting program of classic jazz compositions as part of the 11th annual Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, April 26, 2012
09:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Senior Recital: Abaye Steinmetz-Silber
Abaye Steinmetz-Silber
's senior music recital will feature an exploration and performance of several original pieces in a solo and small ensemble setting. <br/>
Memorial Chapel
Sunday, April 22, 2012
07:00 pm
- 08:30 pm
Senior Recital: Claire Randall "Heavy Sugar"
Vocalist Claire Randall '12 performs with a small ensemble the compositions of jazz legends including Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Cole Porter. This project offers a retrospective portrait of the female vocalist and bandleader as she has been shaped by jazz music.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 21, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Wesleyan University Orchestra
The Wesleyan University Orchestra under Music Director Angel Gil-Ordonez presents symphonic repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, April 20, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Javanese Shadow Puppet Play
Dhalang (puppet master) and Professor of Music Sumarsam presents a Javanese shadow play accompanied by the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Artist-in-Residence I.M. Harjito and guest musicians.
World Music Hall
Thursday, April 19, 2012
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Cello-bration
The Wesleyan Cello Ensemble and Private Lessons Teacher Julie Ribchinsky present music for solo and multiple cellos.<br/>
Russell House All Rooms and Back Garden
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Film Screening: Rachel Thompson's "Extinction Number Six"
An eccentric narrator's quixotic search for the material traces of Java's colonial, mystical, and paleontological past, a journey haunted in equal measure by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora and the still murky events of the 1965 Indonesian coup d'etat.<br/><br/>Written/Directed/Edited by Rachel Thompson<br/>with Sound Design/Composition by Jonathan Zorn
CFA Hall
Sunday, April 15, 2012
05:00 pm
- 07:00 pm
Opera/Oratorio Ensemble Class
Students in the Opera/Oratorio ensemble perform selections from its repertory under the direction of Priscilla Gale.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 14, 2012
03:30 pm
- 04:30 pm
Lecture Demonstration: Fernando Otero Quartet
A lecture demonstration by Argentine composer and pianist Fernando Otero and his ensemble, which features Pablo Aslan on acoustic bass, violinist Gabrielle Fink, and cellist Adam Fisher.
Rehearsal Hall 003 (Daltry Room)
Saturday, April 14, 2012
07:15 pm
- 07:45 pm
Pre-Concert Talk: Fernando Otero Quartet
Pre-concert talk at 7:15pm. <br/><br/>Argentine composer and pianist Fernando Otero evokes the tango sounds of Buenos Aires with his rhythmically vibrant works. Mr. Otero won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Album for "Vital" (2010). His quartet features Pablo Aslan on acoustic bass, violinist Gabrielle Fink, and cellist Adam Fisher.<br/><br/>"The expressive drama of tango animates his compositions, which also involve aspects of classical chamber music and jazz improvisation."<br/>-The New York Times
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 14, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Fernando Otero Quartet
Argentine composer and pianist Fernando Otero evokes the tango sounds of Buenos Aires with his rhythmically vibrant works. Mr. Otero won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Album for "Vital" (2010). His quartet features Pablo Aslan on acoustic bass, violinist Gabrielle Fink, and cellist Adam Fisher.<br/><br/>There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:15pm.<br/><br/>"The expressive drama of tango animates his compositions, which also involve aspects of classical chamber music and jazz improvisation." <br/>--The New York Times<br/><br/>
Media Sponsor: La Voz Hispana
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 07, 2012
02:00 pm
- 03:30 pm
Senior Recital: Lana Lana - Piano Sketches of Indonesia
Performing 20th century piano works of Amir Pasaribu (1915-2010), Jaya Suprana (b. 1949), Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938), and some of her original compositions, Lana Lana '12 will explore how the western musical styles and techniques are used to express the traditional sounds of Indonesia. This recital is in partial fulfillment of Lana's Honors Thesis in Music.
Memorial Chapel
Thursday, April 05, 2012
07:00 pm
- 08:00 pm
Senior Recital: Noah Heau - Black Ice, Bach & Beethoven
Noah Heau '12 will play pieces by three different composers, each from a different historical time period: Beethoven's Sonata in A Major (Op. 69), Bach's Suite II for unaccompanied violoncello, and three short pieces from Erik Friedlander's album "Black Ice & Propane". Alan Rodi will be the piano accompanist for the Beethoven Sonata.
Memorial Chapel
Thursday, April 05, 2012
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Sonagi Project: Korean Percussion Group
Sonagi Project is a Korean percussion group consisting of five musicians, led by Chang Jae Hyo, that creates modern, original music based on traditional Korean rhythms and chants. Drawing from Korea's shamanic culture and the vocal art of pansori, Sonagi's performances carry a strong relation to the emotion and energy of Korean traditional music, offering a contemporary link to Korea's past.
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
08:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
On Silence - Juraj Kojs
<p><i>On Silence</i> is a project conceived, produced and performed by Juraj Kojs to celebrate the centennial of John Cage (September 5, 1912 ' August 12, 1992). The project consists of 13 new commissioned compositions, each 4 minutes and 33 seconds long. The duration references Cage's infamous 1952 opus with the title <i>4'33"</i>, which was premiered by David Tudor sitting at the instrument for the assigned time, occasionally turning score pages and performing nothing.<br/><br/><p>Thirteen young and up-and-coming composers from the US, Europe, South America and Japan were invited to reflect on what John Cage means in their creative life. They were asked to compose a work with duration of 4 minutes and 33 seconds, drawing sources from grand piano, software and hardware technologies, everyday objects and musical toys.</p><br/><br/><p>The commissioned composers are Christopher Cerrone (USA), Natacha Diels (USA), Kasia Glowicka (Poland), Andrew Greenwald (USA), Adrian Knight (Sweden), Juraj Kojs (Slovakia/USA), Jessie Marino (USA), Paula Matthusen (USA), Chikashi Miyama (Japan), Spencer Topel (USA), Chester Udell (USA), Jorge Variego (Argentina) and Henry Vega (Venezuela/USA).</p>
Russell House All Rooms
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
06:30 pm
- 07:30 pm
March Organ Fete
Wesleyan organ students perform works of Bach, Mendelssohn and Widor. Featuring performances by Jason Jia Sheng, Vivien Lung, Olivia May, Daniel Parcell, and Rain Tianyu Xie.
Memorial Chapel
Sunday, March 04, 2012
03:00 pm
- 04:00 pm
Taylor Ho Bynum and Tomas Fujiwara
Composers Taylor Ho Bynum '98 MA '05 (cornet) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums) have been regular collaborators for nearly two decades, documenting their duo on the recordings "True Events" (2007) and "Stepwise" (2010). Both are veterans of the groups of Wesleyan Professor of Music Anthony Braxton. Mr. Bynum has also performed with Myra Melford's Happy Whistlings, the Tyshawn Sorey Quartet, and Cecil Taylor; Mr. Fujiwara has performed with Ravi Coltrane, Amir ElSaffar, and Mary Halvorson '02, among others.
Russell House All Rooms
Saturday, March 03, 2012
09:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Senior Recital: Nathaniel Leich
Nat Leich's senior music thesis concert, "Kaleidoscope", featuring 15 Wesleyan musicians, the Mixtape Orchestra, fusing pop, funk, and rock with the magnificence and versatility of the classical orchestra.
Memorial Chapel
Thursday, March 01, 2012
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
American Berserk: Lisa Moore Piano Concert
Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher Lisa Moore, the founding pianist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, performs a program of American masterpieces by John Adams, Martin Bresnick, Henry Cowell, Philip Glass, Jerome Kitzke, Missy Mazzoli and Frederic Rzewski.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, February 25, 2012
07:15 pm
- 07:45 pm
Pre-Concert Talk: Lionel Loueke Trio
Pre-concert talk for Lionel Loueke Trio at 7:15pm.<br/><br/>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 Hugarian drummer Ferenc Nemeth. 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.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, February 25, 2012
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
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 Hugarian drummer Ferenc Nemeth. 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. <br/><br/>There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:15pm.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, February 17, 2012
09:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
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.
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, February 12, 2012
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
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.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, February 11, 2012
04:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
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.
Memorial Chapel
Sunday, February 05, 2012
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Karas String Quartet: Afternoon with Chamber Music
The Karas String Quartet--violinist Cyrus Stevens, pianist Ruriko Kagiyama, violist Michael Wheeler--and guest cellist Julie Ribchinsky, Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher, will perform the world premiere of the Wesleyan Concertante by William Zinn, as well as Mozart's Piano Quartet in g minor and other works.
Russell House All Rooms
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Judy Dunaway
A concert of music by composer and conceptual artist Judy Dunaway. Featuring "On the Air" for saxophone and musique concrete streamed over Ustream, performed by Owen Callahan '12; and Balloon Symphony No. 2, performed by the audience. For more information about Judy Dunaway, please visit http://emedia.art.sunysb.edu/judydunaway/
CFA Hall
Friday, December 09, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Phyllis Bruce Memorial Concert
A commemoration of the life of Phyllis Bruce (1940-2010) through the music of Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Neely Bruce, performed by sopranos Kalia Kellogg and Johana Arnold, baritone David Barron, and assisting instrumentalists. Music direction by Neely Bruce. With special guests Jane Lehman and Diane Terry, of The Girlfriends.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, December 08, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Javanese Gamelan and Dance II
Experience the culture of Java with beginning students of Javanese gamelan and dance.
World Music Hall
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
08:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Anthony Braxton Large Ensemble
Professor Anthony Braxton's student ensemble performs his compositions.
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
WesWinds Winter Concert
The Wesleyan Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Peter Hadley, will perform an exciting array of pieces for winds and percussion.
Crowell Concert Hall
Monday, December 05, 2011
07:30 pm
- 09:30 pm
Ebony Singers Winter Concert
Your spirits will be lifted by the Wesleyan University Ebony Singers, under the direction of Marichal Monts, as the choir's voices soar. Be prepared to clap, dance, and sing along.
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, December 04, 2011
04:00 pm
- 05:30 pm
Classical Guitar Ensemble/WesGuitars Concert
Students in the Classical Guitar Ensemble class as well as accomplished Wesleyan guitarists present the results of their work during the semester under the direction of Cem Duruoz.
World Music Hall
Saturday, December 03, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Candlelight Concert
Under the direction of Artist in Residence Ronald Ebrecht, the Wesleyan Singers perform George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Part 1, with soloists Naakai Addy, Connor Bennion, Emma Daniels, Maggie Feldman-Piltch, Tess Jonas, Paulina Jones-Torregrosa, Chloe Lalonde, Chun Kit Ng, Alan Rodi, Borworn Satayopas, and Jeremy Senie, accompanied by Brian Parks.
Memorial Chapel
Saturday, December 03, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Javanese Gamelan and Dance
The Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble, an orchestra of bronze gongs, metallophones, xylophones, drums, string and voices under the direction of I.M. Harjito and Sumarsam, presents classical music of central Java, and dance directed by Urip Sri Maeny.
World Music Hall
Friday, December 02, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Music from East Asia
This concert features Wesleyan's East Asian ensembles presenting a variety of musical styles and repertories from East Asian cultures.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, December 01, 2011
08:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Anthony Braxton Small Ensemble
Saxophonist, composer and professor Anthony Braxton, known for his groundbreaking experimental music, performs in an intimate, small ensemble setting.
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, November 20, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Opera/Oratorio Ensemble Class
Students in the Opera/Oratorio Ensemble perform selections from its repertory under the direction of Priscilla Gale.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, November 19, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Wesleyan University Orchestra
The Wesleyan University Orchestra under music director Angel Gil-Ordonez performs <i>Finlandia</i> by Sibelius, Symphony No. 8 by Dvorak, and Piano Concerto No. 23 by Mozart featuring Sean Curtice on piano.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, November 18, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Joshua Roman
At 27, Oklahoma City native Joshua Roman has covered a wide range of repertoire in his performances, from two seasons as the principal cellist for the Seattle Symphony to his collaboration with DJ Spooky to cover Radiohead. Mr. Roman, accompanied on piano, will perform sonatas by Claude Debussy and Johannes Brahms (No. 2 in F Major), Astor Piazzolla's <i>Le Grand Tango</i>, and Dan Visconti's <i>Americana</i>, which Mr. Roman premiered in 2010.
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, November 13, 2011
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Music at The Russell House: The Jolly Beggars
The Connecticut-based six-piece band The Jolly Beggars sing traditional stories from Irish folklore with tight vocal harmonies and play arrangements of Celtic reels and jigs on guitars, mandolins, tin whistles, banjo, double bass, bodhran, spoons and more.<br/>
Russell House All Rooms
Friday, November 11, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Ghanaian Drumming and Singing
A festive concert featuring the drumming music of Ghana with Adjunct Professor of Music Abraham Adzenyah and his advanced drumming class. The beginning drumming class features a 35-member chorus singing traditional songs.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, November 10, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Water is Rising: Music and Dance from the Pacific Atolls of Kiribati, Tokelau, and Tuvalu
Performance and purpose collide in this powerful New England premiere that illuminates the plight of the Pacific Islands. Scientists report the vulnerable coral atolls of Kiribati, Tokelau and Tuvalu are already experiencing rising sea levels as result of global warming and climate change. In their first-ever U.S. tour, 36 dancers and musicians express their deep connection to nature and their ancestral past through multi-part harmonies, poetry, and gracious movement that cascade over dynamic rhythms inspiring us all to be better stewards of our shared planet. Water is Rising harnesses the power of performance art in an impassioned plea for global awareness and social change. For more information, please visit www.waterisrising.com
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, November 05, 2011
10:00 am
- 11:30 am
Lucier Celebration Symposium: Performance
Panel to include Charles Curtis, Ronald Kuivila and Richard Lerman. Moderated by Mark Slobin, Professor of Music.
CFA Hall
Saturday, November 05, 2011
12:00 pm
- 04:00 pm
Lucier Celebration Film: Tribute to John Cage
Alvin Lucier played a central role as a performer/actor in projects of Charlotte Moorman, George Manupelli, and Nam June Paik. Mr. Lucier's extraordinary contribution to Mr. Paik's "Tribute to John Cage" (1972) captures the wit, verve, and aggression of those performances. This screening will be introduced by John Hanhardt who, as a curator at the Whitney Museum, pioneered the introduction to the museum of sound works, including those of Mr. Lucier. Mr Hanhardt is currently senior curator for Media Arts at the Nam June Paik Media Arts Center of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
CFA Hall
Saturday, November 05, 2011
02:00 pm
- 04:00 pm
Opening Reception: "Alvin Lucier (and his Artist Friends)"
"Alvin Lucier (and His Artist Friends)" is a broad overview of the composer's distinguished career over nearly six decades. This exhibition will explore the nature of Mr. Lucier's engagement with artists such as John Cage, Sol LeWitt, John Ashbery, Italo Calvino and Lee Lozano. Related works by some of these figures will be juxtaposed with the compositions they inspired. The exhibition will also make the first in-depth exploration of the broad influence of Mr. Lucier's work "I Am Sitting in a Room" (1970). Nearly two dozen audio presentations of his compositions, along with a number of performance videos and an interview with Robert Ashley will be featured. Numerous notated and text-based scores, a select group of artifacts from earlier performances, and an extensive variety of archival memorabilia documenting Mr. Lucier's career to date will be on display. An installation version of Mr. Lucier's "Chambers" (1968) realized as a tribute by former students and colleagues will complete the exhibition.<br/><br/>There will be a Walk-Through at 2pm on Saturday November 5 with Guest Curator Andrea Miller-Keller.
<br/><br/>Extended Zilkha Gallery hours during Homecoming / Family Weekend: are as follows: <br/><br/>Saturday, November 5, noon-6pm. <br/>Sunday, November 6, 10am-6pm.
Zilkha Main Gallery
Saturday, November 05, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Lucier Celebration Concert II: Ensembles
The Wesleyan University Orchestra, Gamelan Ensemble and Collegium Musicum perform Alvin Lucier's ensemble works "Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers" (1994), "Six Geometries" (1993), "Panorama 2" (2011), "Exploration of the House" (2005), and "Shadow Lines" (2008).
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, November 05, 2011
10:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Lucier Celebration Concert III: A Concert of Electronic Theatre Music, May 3, 1968
Alvin Lucier's first concert at Wesleyan, "A Concert of Electronic Theatre Music" on Friday, May 3, 1968, will be reconstructed and performed by Mr. Lucier and the original student performers: "Carwiddwen" (1968) by John Fullemann, John Pemberton, and Douglas Simon; "Vespers" (1967) by Mr. Lucier; "Flying, or Possibly Crawling or Sitting Still (Burdocks)" (1971-72) by Christian Wolff; "Distance" (1961) by Toshi Ichiyanagi; and "Rozart Mix" (1965) by John Cage.
Memorial Chapel
Friday, November 04, 2011
12:15 pm
- 02:00 pm
Lucier Celebration Symposium: Notations
Panel will include Anthony Burr, Volker Straebel and Daniel Wolf. Moderated by Jane Alden, Associate Professor of Music.
CFA Hall
Friday, November 04, 2011
02:30 pm
- 04:00 pm
Lucier Celebration Symposium: Processes
Panel to include Nicolas Collins, Andrew Dewar and Ed Osborn. Moderated by Neely Bruce, Professor of Music.
CFA Hall
Friday, November 04, 2011
04:30 pm
- 06:00 pm
Lucier Celebration Film: No Ideas But In Things
The documentary on Alvin Lucier's work and teaching, "No Ideas But In Things" (2012), will be premiered in Berlin next spring. This special preview screening will be introduced by the filmmakers Viola Ruche and Hauke Harder.
CFA Hall
Friday, November 04, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Lucier Celebration Concert I: Solos
A concert featuring Alvin Lucier's works for solo performers, including "Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra" (1988), "A Tribute to James Tenney" (1986), "Still Lives" (1995), "Charles Curtis"(2002), "In Memoriam Jon Higgins" (1985), and "Panorama" (1993).
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, October 29, 2011
05:00 pm
- 07:00 pm
Navaratri Festival Dinner and Concert: T.M. Krishna
Haveli India will present a bountiful meal, from appetizer to dessert, in World Music Hall, located at 40 Wyllys Avenue, at 5pm before the T.M. Krishna concert at 7pm in Crowell Concert Hall, located at 50 Wyllys Avenue.
World Music Hall Lower Lobby
Saturday, October 29, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Navaratri Festival Concert: T.M. Krishna
Vocalist T.M. Krishna is at the forefront of classical Carnatic vocalists in India, having studied with Sri Semangudi Srinivasa Iyer. He will be accompanied by violin, mridangam, ghatam/kanjira, and tambura.
Crowell Concert Hall
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
04:15 pm
- 07:00 pm
Navaratri Festival Talk by Niko Higgins: Fusion and "Confusion" - Problems with Musical Hybridity in South India
Niko Higgins '97 studied Karnatak vocal music with T. Viswanathan at Wesleyan. A PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia University, he is finishing his dissertation on the contemporary practice of Karnatak fusion in Chennai, India (where he studied with Smt. Rama Ravi). Drawing from his research and literature about cultural and musical hybridity, Mr. Higgins will analyze <br/>the socio-cultural impact of ideas from South Indian classical music, film music, Western rock and jazz.
CFA Hall
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
07:30 pm
- 09:00 pm
Navaratri Festival: Henna and Chaat hosted by Shakti
Experience South Asian culture through henna art and sampling of chaat (savory snacks). Hosted by Shakti, Wesleyan's South Asian Students' Association.
Olin Library Lobby
Sunday, October 16, 2011
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Music at The Russell House: Noah Baerman Trio Plays the Music of Kenny Barron
Pianist Noah Baerman's trio with bassist Henry Lugo and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza presents a musical tribute to Mr. Baerman's mentor, National Endowment for the Arts "Jazz Master" Kenny Barron, who performed at the CFA in July 2011. The group will interpret Mr. Barron's compositions as well as standards that Mr. Barron frequently played by Victor Lewis, Billy Strayhorn, and Richard Rodgers.
Russell House All Rooms
Friday, October 14, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Joy Harjo with Larry Mitchell
This concert by Joy Harjo with Larry Mitchell has been canceled. The Wesleyan University Box Office will be in contact with ticket holders regarding refunds.<br/><br/>A member of the Mvskoke Nation born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, tenor saxophonist Joy Harjo combines storytelling, poetry and indigenous song in her musical duo with Grammy Award-winning producer/guitarist Larry Mitchell. Ms. Harjo's works blend traditional rhythms and singing with jazz, rock, blues, hip hop and her heartfelt poems, which have been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, October 13, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Music of Gayathri Khemadasa
Pianist Gayathri Khemadasa, cellist Anupa Khemadasa, and guitarist Banning Eyre will perform a concert of selections from "Phoolan Devi", an opera composed by Gayathri, a Sri Lankan composer who is currently a Fulbright Professional Scholar at Wesleyan University (2011-2012). Gayathri studied classical piano at the Prague Conservatory, and has been performing in Prague since 2005. She plays melodic contemporary classical music, enlivened by Sri Lankan folk and classical roots. Gayathri's father, Premasiri Khemadasa, was Sri Lanka's leading composer of classical Sri Lankan music.
Memorial Chapel
Friday, September 23, 2011
08:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
AnDa Union
The ten-piece folk band AnDa Union, started in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China in 2003, performs rarely heard <i>hoomai</i> (guttural throat songs) and <i>urtinduu</i> (songs with clear long notes), with instrumental accompaniment on the <i>morin huur</i> (horse head fiddle) and <i>maodun chaoer</i> (three-holed reed flute), as well as Mongolian lute, mouth harp and percussion. These young virtuosos dig deep into tradition, unearthing forgotten, otherworldly music.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, September 22, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
The Musical Singularity
Composers Carl Testa '06, Brian Parks MA '09, Dean Rosenthal (Massachusetts) and Michael Winter (Los Angeles) present algorithmic compositions as realized by the Wesleyan University pipe organ, designed to be particularly adaptable to computer interaction by Ronald Ebrecht. Co-sponsored by The Uncertainty Music Series (www.uncertaintymusic.com).
Memorial Chapel
Monday, September 19, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Tom Hamilton and Al Margolis
Tom Hamilton and Al Margolis (working under the musical pseudonym If, Bwana since 1984) create an ambient, dream-like, industrial musical narrative with an array of computers, electronic instruments and found objects.
CFA Hall
Sunday, September 18, 2011
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Music at The Russell House: Elite Syncopation - From Joplin to Jelly Roll
The nationally touring quintet Elite Syncopation, featuring double bassist Roy Wiseman, violinist Perry Elliot, cellist Ettie Luckey, pianist Gary Chapman and Liz Baker Smith on flute, clarinet and saxophone, interprets ragtime and early jazz. The group recreates the sounds of an early 20th-century American dance music ensemble, including rare works by composers such as Theodore Northrup and Charles L. Johnson.
Russell House All Rooms
Friday, September 09, 2011
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Bach to School
Artist in Residence and University Organist Ronald Ebrecht returns to campus with a all-Franck program of pieces that he designed for his appearance at the Quattropole festival in October. The festival is held in four cities in the four countries (Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, and France) that now straddle the region where Cesar Franck was born. The concert features Franck's <i>Trois Pieces, Pastorale,<i/> and <i>Grande Piece Symphonique.<i/>
Memorial Chapel
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
12:00 pm
- 01:15 pm
They Might Be Gypsies
"Intense, thoughtful and spirited music."-<i>Times Argus</i> (Vermont)<br/>The high-energy Vermont-based band They Might Be Gypsies, led by the duo of Greg Ryan and his 15 year-old son Aidan, is inspired by the 1930s jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, as well as modern influences from Argentina to Barcelona.
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
07:30 pm
- 09:30 pm
Neely Bruce Plays the Piano Music of William Duckworth
"That [<i>The Time Curve Preludes</i>] isn't more widely recognized as one of the 20th century's major piano works is puzzling."-<i>The New York Times</i><br/>Wesleyan University Professor of Music and American Studies Neely Bruce revisits his 1980 recital of piano music composed by William Duckworth, which included his <i>Walden Variations</i> as well as the premiere of <i>The Time Curve Preludes</i>, considered the first work of post-minimalism.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, July 07, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Kenny Barron Trio
"One of the top jazz pianists in the world."-<i>The Los Angeles Times</i><br/>Grammy-nominated pianist Kenny Barron's elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms have been heard over the past five decades with Dizzy Gillespie, Yusef Lateef, Ron Carter, Stan Getz, Charlie Haden, and many other artists. Barron was named a National Endowment for the Arts "Jazz Master" in 2010.<br/><br/>Kenny's brother, saxophonist Bill Barron (1927-1989), was a professor at Wesleyan University for 14 years, starting in 1975. Bill founded the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra, and performed with numerous artists including Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, and Randy Weston.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, June 30, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Pablo Mayor's Folklore Urbano
"This 12-piece Colombian groove band plays [music] that is at the same time danceable, festive, and intriguing." <br/>—<i>National Geographic </i><br/><p>Composer, arranger, and pianist Pablo Mayor's Folklore Urbano redefines modern Colombian music, fusing the danceable swing of traditional percussion rhythms with the contemporary jazz harmonies of his group's soaring vocalists and blistering horn section. <br/>
CFA Green
Sunday, May 08, 2011
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Mogulesco: A Tale of the Yiddish Theater
A production of Music 297, written by Mark Slobin, directed by Joshua Margolin '11, music direction by Amanda Scherbenske, doctoral student. Co-sponsored by the Music Department and Jewish and Israel Studies.<br/>
World Music Hall
Friday, May 06, 2011
03:00 pm
- 06:00 pm
West African Drumming and Dance
An invigorating performance filled with the rhythms of West Africa. Choreographer Iddi Saaka, World Dance Artist in Residence, and Master Drummer Abraham Adzenyah will perform with their students in West African Dance Courses I, II and III as well as guest artists and drummers.
CFA Green
Thursday, May 05, 2011
10:00 pm
- 12:00 am
Annual Organ Romp
Annual closing of the organ series by Wesleyan organ students will feature wacky pieces, original videos, dance, masquerades and much more. Who knows this time!
Memorial Chapel
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
WesWinds Spring Concert
WesWinds, under the direction of Peter Hadley, will perform an exciting array of pieces for winds and percussion.
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
08:30 pm
- 09:30 pm
Sam's Senior Sounds (Rain Date)
Sam's Senior sounds will be an exploration of just that. Pairing an investigation of ambience with the natural symphony of ???. This performance will revitalize the limbial continuum of your perceptual schamiticivitivy.
DAC Courtyard
Monday, May 02, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
South Indian Vocal Recital
Sharing their work with one another and the community, the annual end-of-the year Karnatak music concert by students of B. Balasubrahmaniyan, David Nelson and Aaron Paige will feature singing and solkattu performances by individuals and groups.
CFA Hall
Sunday, May 01, 2011
01:00 pm
- 02:00 pm
Wesleyan Steel Band Concert
The Wesleyan Steel Band presents a concert of the tunes they've been shedding all semester. Expect some calypso and soca bangers, some funky stuff, and a few reworked pop gems. Most of all, come ready to have some fun and dance!
Usdan Huss Courtyard + Lawn
Sunday, May 01, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Power to the WesKorean Drumming Beat
This concert, presented by the Wesleyan Korean Drumming Ensemble, showcases the dynamic mixture of traditional drumming and dance of Korean p'ungmulnori.
World Music Hall
Sunday, May 01, 2011
08:30 pm
- 09:30 pm
Sam's Senior Sounds
Sam's Senior sounds will be an exploration of just that. Pairing an investigation of ambience with the natural symphony of ???. This performance will revitalize the limbial continuum of your perceptual schamiticivitivy.
DAC Courtyard
Saturday, April 30, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Wesleyan Chinese Music Ensemble: Sound of Nature
This concert features the Wesleyan Chinese Music Ensemble. Formed by Wesleyan students, faculty members and friends, the ensemble presents a variety of music styles from China and Taiwan, including folk and contemporary and solo and ensemble repertoires.
World Music Hall
Saturday, April 30, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Sherrie Maricle and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra
DIVA, led by Sherrie Maricle, is an all-female concert jazz orchestra in the tradition of the classic bands of Buddy Rich, Mel Lewis, Count Basie, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman. Formed in 1993 by Stanley Kay, DIVA maintains itself as one of few "intact" touring jazz ensembles in the world, exuding the excitement and force found in the tradition of the historic big bands but with an eye toward today's progressive sound of originality and verve. The repertoire is filled with exciting, mainstream jazz composed and arranged specifically for DIVA by band members and some of the country's most notable composer/arrangers. In 2006, DIVA was voted one of the best big bands in the world in <i>DownBeat</i> magazine's annual Critic's and Reader's Polls. Co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Institutional Partnerships. This performance is part of the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend.<br/> <br/>
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, April 29, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
WesTaiko Spring Concert
The concert features the thunderous and exhilarating rhythms of Japanese taiko drumming, as presented by the Introductory and Advanced Taiko students. Several dynamic styles demonstrating both traditional and contemporary taiko repertoire will be showcased.
World Music Hall
Friday, April 29, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Concert
The Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra, directed by Adjunct Associate Professor Jay Hoggard, and the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble, directed by Noah Baerman, perform an exciting program of classic jazz compositions including works by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Oliver Nelson and Wayne Shorter. This event is part of Wesleyan's Jazz Orchestra Weekend.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, April 28, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Javanese Gamelan and Dance
Student members of Javanese Gamelan-Beginners and Javanese Dance will present their works, under the direction of Sumarsam and Urip Sri Maeny.
World Music Hall
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Anthony Braxton Small Ensemble
Saxophonist, composer and professor Anthony Braxton, known for his ground-breaking jazz and experimental music, performs in and intimate, small-ensemble setting.
Crowell Concert Hall
Monday, April 25, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Anthony Braxton Large Ensemble
Professor Braxton's student ensemble performs his music compositions 175, 100, 306, and 307.<br/><br/>
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, April 24, 2011
06:00 pm
- 06:30 pm
Senior Recital: Rebecca Choi
Rebecca Choi's senior recital "Conga Rhythms".
Usdan 210 East Wing (Mink Dining Hall)
Sunday, April 24, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Ebony Singers Spring Concert and Reunion
Come and experience the reunion of one of the country's finest college choirs and the 25th anniversary of Dr. Marichal Monts as its conductor. It will be an evening of clapping, singing and dancing. You are certain to leave uplifted and inspired!
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 23, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Wesleyan University Orchestra and Wesleyan Ensemble Singers Concert
The CFA presents the world premiere of a commissioned work by composer Glenn McClure. The work is a musical model of the bio-mathematics concept of "emerging complexity" using sound to illustrate the common themes of environmental messages collected from children around the world. The oratorio for voices and ensemble will be a collaboration between McClure, Wesleyan students and faculty, Middletown elementary schools and children from across the globe. With the participation of the Wesleyan University Orchestra, the Wesleyan Ensemble Singers and the Middletown All-City Grade 4 and 5 Chorus. Angel Gil-Ordonez, music director. Commissioned for the inaugural year of Wesleyan's College of the Environment and made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.<br/><br/>
Crowell Concert Hall
Sunday, April 17, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Evan Schnoll's Senior Recital
Multi-percussion in diverse styles including Taiko and Gamelan.
World Music Hall
Saturday, April 16, 2011
04:00 pm
- 05:30 pm
Spring Organ Fling
Nora Dumont, Alex Kelley, Brian Parks, Alan Rodi and guest artist Natasha Ulyanovsky perform at 4pm and Parks and Ulyanovsky perform at 8pm. Ulyanovsky will play works of Medins, Korsakov, Glazunov, Bach, Franck, Alain, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and Borodin.
Memorial Chapel
Saturday, April 16, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Opera and Oratorio Ensemble Class
Selections from oratorios and opera scenes under the direction of Priscilla Gale.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 16, 2011
07:30 pm
- 08:30 pm
Ian Coss's Senior Recital:Interlocking
Balinese Kotekan Outside the Gamelan - A presentation of traditional Balinese music and original composition exploring the use of interlocking patterns. The concert will progressively remove this idea from its usual musical context.
World Music Hall
Saturday, April 16, 2011
08:00 pm
- 09:30 pm
Spring Organ Fling
Nora Dumont, Alex Kelley, Brian Parks, Alan Rodi and guest artist Natasha Ulyanovsky perform at 4pm and Parks and Ulyanovsky perform at 8pm. Ulyanovsky will play works of Medins, Korsakov, Glazunov, Bach, Franck, Alain, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and Borodin.
Memorial Chapel
Saturday, April 09, 2011
06:30 pm
- 08:30 pm
Jared Paul's Senior Recital: "Ubeatquitous" Live
Jared Paul and an ensemble play original compositions and arrangements that blend elements of hip hop, rock, classical, and electronic music.
World Music Hall
Saturday, April 09, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Lucy Strother's Senior Recital
Solo cello recital featuring music by Bach and Britten.
Russell House All Rooms
Saturday, April 09, 2011
09:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Elizabeth Gauvey-Kern's Senior Recital
Music and Meaning: A Story With No Words - Music and meaning have always shared a timid relationship with music annalists. While scholars have felt comfortable interpreting poetry, prose, and even visual art to discover its underlying meaning, music scholars have been less willing to do so. Music, many insist, is without definite meaning - it is too abstract. There might be one meaning to a composer, but thousands of others depending on who is listening. In my thesis, I contest that claim. Through close analysis of film music, whose meaning is illustrated on the screen as you listen, I have discovered certainties in music and meaning and tonight tell an epic tale with heroes and villains, fights and chases, comics, seductresses, and true love - though music.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, April 02, 2011
09:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Graham Richman's Senior Recital
Jazz Isn't Dead, it Just Smells Funny: An evening of modern jazz and jazz-influenced music.
Crowell Concert Hall
Friday, April 01, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Emily Weiss's Senior Recital: Ultramega Unknown, A History of Grunge
The dingy clubs of late '80s Seattle brought to CCH w/ live songs honoring our grunge gods. For the songs you never heard, wish you had, and could never forget. A history of grunge performed live for Emily Weiss's Senior Thesis Concert.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, March 26, 2011
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Daniel Henry's Senior Recital: Portraits of Lee Morgan
The concert will showcase original compositions by Dan Henry. The music will be performed by a 9-person ensemble expanding on the traditional jazz and blues vocabulary alluding to the compositional style of Lee Morgan.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, March 26, 2011
09:00 pm
- 10:30 pm
Ryan Rodger's Senior Recital: Torrents
Exploration of interactions of sound and language in space; compositions based on natural and synthetic phasing, and lots of drumming.
World Music Hall
Friday, March 25, 2011
09:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Senior Recital for Paul Linton
An evening of mostly solo pipe organ pieces representing the culmination of Paul Linton's musical experiences at Wesleyan.
Memorial Chapel
Sunday, February 27, 2011
04:00 pm
- 05:30 pm
Senior Recital: Katherine Scahill
This concert will offer both new and ancient music inspired and written by twelfth-century visionary, composer, and author, Hildegard of Bingen. Works will include Hildegard's sacred chants as well as original compositions that take their text from Hildegard's divine visions.
Russell House All Rooms
Saturday, February 26, 2011
06:00 pm
- 08:00 pm
Graduate Recital: Akiko Hatakeyama
<img src="http://condor.wesleyan.edu/bcahill/akiko_recital_sm.jpg" alt="MA Thesis Recital Poster, flower image"/><br/><br/>Akiko Hatakeyama, a graduate student in the Music program, will present her newly composed multimedia pieces with acoustic instruments, analog synthesizer, videos, and interactive systems utilizing SuperCollider and Max/MSP/Jitter. Guest performers are Aleksandra Miglowiec, Joseph Getter, Benjamin Klein and Eoin Callery.
Memorial Chapel
Saturday, February 26, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
A Lou Harrison Celebration
With the participation of the Wesleyan University Gamelan (Sumarsam and I.M. Harjito, directors), the Wesleyan Ensemble Singers, the Wesleyan University Orchestra (Angel Gil-Ordsqez, music director) and Lisa Moore, piano. A singular figure in 20th-century American music, Lou Harrison pioneered in absorbing the fragrance of Indonesian gamelan into Western formats and genres, achieving a seamless cultural synthesis many attempt but few attain. His Piano Concerto is a little-known American masterpiece (it has been called the great American concerto by Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed). His Strict Songs celebrate the spiritual wholeness he discovered on the West Coast upon leaving the stress and noise of Manhattan.
Crowell Concert Hall
Saturday, February 26, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
A Melancholy Play
Melancholy Play, written by Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl, is a contemporary farce on melancholia. The recipient of a MacArthur Genius grant, Ms. Ruhl explains that Tilly's melancholy is of an exquisite quality: she turns her melancholy into a sexy thing and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Created in collaboration with students from the Theater and Music departments and directed by Visiting Artist Michael Rau '05.
CFA Theater
Friday, February 25, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
A Melancholy Play
Melancholy Play, written by Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl, is a contemporary farce on melancholia. The recipient of a MacArthur Genius grant, Ms. Ruhl explains that Tilly's melancholy is of an exquisite quality: she turns her melancholy into a sexy thing and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Created in collaboration with students from the Theater and Music departments and directed by Visiting Artist Michael Rau '05.
CFA Theater
Thursday, February 24, 2011
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
A Melancholy Play
Melancholy Play, written by Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl, is a contemporary farce on melancholia. The recipient of a MacArthur Genius grant, Ms. Ruhl explains that Tilly's melancholy is of an exquisite quality: she turns her melancholy into a sexy thing and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Created in collaboration with students from the Theater and Music departments and directed by Visiting Artist Michael Rau '05.
CFA Theater
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Yiddish Cultural Expression Series: Bessarabian Hop
A special series of performances and talks about Yiddish cultural expression in Europe and America. This event will feature Michael Winograd and Dan Blacksberg from New York. Co-sponsored by the Music Department and the Jewish and Israel Studies Program.
CFA Hall
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
07:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Yiddish Cultural Expression Series: The Philadelphia Klezmer Story
A special series of performances and talks about Yiddish cultural expression in Europe and America. This event will feature Hankus Netsky from the New England Conservatory. Co-sponsored by the Music Department and the Jewish and Israel Studies Program.
CFA Hall
Friday, February 11, 2011
09:00 pm
- 11:00 pm
Donovan Arthen's Senior Recital
Ending at the Beginning: A concert of songs that have played a big role in shaping my love of music that brought me through Wesleyan.
Memorial Chapel
Friday, February 04, 2011
07:00 pm
- 08:00 pm
Nicholas Luby's Senior Recital
Senior Piano Recital<br/><br/>Solo Piano Recital; works of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff.
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, December 09, 2010
07:00 pm
- 09:00 pm
Javanese and Balinese Gamelan and Dance
Experience the music and dance of Java and music of Bali with the Wesleyan Gamelan Ensemble beginners, Wesleyan Balinese Ensemble, Youth Gamelan, and the students of Javanese Dance. Under the direction of I.M. Harjito, Pete Steele, Joseph Getter, and Urip Sri Maeny, respectively.<br/>
World Music Hall
Sunday, November 21, 2010
03:00 pm
- 05:00 pm
Wesleyan University Orchestra
The Wesleyan University Orchestra under the musical direction of Angel Gil-Ordonez performs symphonic repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries.<br/>
Crowell Concert Hall
Thursday, November 18, 2010
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Ghanaian Drumming Ensemble Concert
We invite you to a concert celebrating Adjunct Professor of Music Abraham Adzenyah's 42nd year teaching the drumming musics of Ghana at Wesleyan University. On November 18, 2010, in Crowell Concert Hall, Professor Adzenyah, his Advanced Drumming Ensemble, guest alumni and friends will present ceremonial, recreational, and social dance pieces of the Ashanti, Akan, Ewe, and Yoruban traditions, many of them new versions acquired during his recent sabbatical visit to Ghana and his home village of Gomoa Abosa. His thirty-five strong beginning class will serve as chorus as they accompany the drumming with traditional songs, lead by Visiting Instructor in Music Brian Parks. A drumming and singing extravaganza!
Crowell Concert Hall
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
08:00 pm
- 10:00 pm
Erik DeLuca Concert
Composer and sound artist Erik DeLuca will present a concert of his underwater sound recordings and environmental works, <i>In</i> and <i>Four Days of Winter</i>, featuring Owen Callahan, bass clarinet; Benjamin Klein, tuba; Adam Matlock, accordion; and Katherine Scahill, violin.<br/><br/>Erik DeLuca explores sound, usually through collaboration with our natural environment, and is an aspiring community art organizer. In 2010, Erik served as Artist-In-Residence at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska, and Acadia National Park in Maine. Erik's work reinforces the magnificence of our Earth's inner voice. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.erikdeluca.com./">www.erikdeluca.com</a>.<br/>
CFA Hall
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