January 2023
Tufts Sunday Concert: Les Caractères de la Danse
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Les Caractères de la Danse," music and dance from France's "Ancien Règime" and starring dancers Camilla Finlay and Ken Pierce. The program will feature ballroom and theater dances reconstructed from Beauchamps-Feuillet dance notation, as well as original choreography in period style. As music for solo dancers, the program will include a selection of Marin Marais' Couplets de Folies for viola da gamba and harpsichord, and arrangement of Jean-Fery Rebel's Caractères for Baroque flute, recorder,…
Find out more »February 2023
Tufts Sunday Concert: Brahms and the Schumanns
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Brahms and the Schumanns— A Liederabend with Poetry and Letters," a program of chamber music, poetry, and excerpts from the letters of Clara, Robert, and Johannes. With mezzo-soprano Kathleen Flynn, cellist Miriam Eckelhoefer, pianist Edith Auner, and actor Joy Lamberton Arcolano. Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have been vaccinated and boosted.
Find out more »Granoff Colloquium: Kyra Gaunt – Uttered Silence
The new semester's first Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features SUNY-Albany assistant professor and ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt on the topic, "Uttered Silence: A Black Feminist Ethnomusicology as Care and Repair." Gaunt will speak on anti-Blackness and the particular f*ckery Black girls face online and in real life around twerking and voice. She is a digital ethnomusicologist known for her work on kinetic orality and the gendered twist of music-making from girls to men in Black popular music since…
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Musical Rainbows
For the first time in four years, the Tufts University Department of Music's Family and Children's Concert Series "Musical Rainbows" performance is back live at Distler Hall. "Listen to Lincoln," "Musical Megan" and "Rainbow Jeff" will lead classic singalong songs and originals for children, their parents, and the monsters under their beds! Note: Due to university COVID regulations, live audience attendees at Tufts Music events must be prepared to present a Tufts ID or COVID vaccination card showing that they have…
Find out more »Leo Eguchi: Unaccompanied
The Tufts University Department of Music welcomes cellist Leo Eguchi performing “Unaccompanied,” featuring eight short new works by immigrant and first-generation American composers for solo cello. Inspired by his experience growing up in a mixed-race Japanese American family in the Midwest and questioning how he fit in the communities he inhabited, Eguchi commissioned composers whose own work draws from their unique immigrant and mixed-race experiences to answer the question, “What does your American-ness sound like?” Composers include James Diaz, Frank…
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