Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University
Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #2: Book of February
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University faculty composer Michael McLaughlin’s "Book of February" ignites new out-of-season response pieces by Tufts Composers in today's New Sounds Now series concert. Free to the public with no tickets required. The program also will be viewable online via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Joel LaRue Smith Jazz Trio
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Department of Music's Family and Children's Concert Series welcomes the Joel LaRue Smith Trio for a performance titled "Testimony." Smith and guests performers Evan Palmer, bass, and Yoron Israel, drums, will provide an introduction for children and families to hear toe-tapping rhythms and melodies. They'll play the “blues,” “bosa nova,” “mambos,” and …
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Tufts Composers: New at Noon #1 – Who is Bob?
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts Composers begins a new season of New at Noon, one-hour collaborative dance/music events at Distler Hall. Who is Bob? Discover the answer and more by joining Tufts composers for this afternoon of unexpected musical partnerships. This concert may also be viewed online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Tufts Composers: Might As Well, Now That We’re Back
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesBack from summer, back from sabbatical, alumni, grad students and undergrads back to the Tufts University campus, guest composers and performers return to the Distler Hall stage for the concert "Might As Well, Now That We're Back." Curated by John McDonald, this "variety evening" features myriad new works by guest composer Julia Werntz, faculty guest …
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Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Wind Ensemble
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Sunday Concert season presents the Tufts Wind Ensemble in a performance titled "Pax et Lux" (Peace and Light), the university's motto, which was adopted in 1857 and inspires this program. The repertoire includes Frank Ticheli's "Lux Perpetua" and David Maslanka's "Hymn for World Peace." TUWE will also present music written for Tufts …
Tufts Sunday Concert: The Renewal Series
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Department of Music begins the 2023-24 Tufts Sunday Concert season with "The Renewal Series — Concerts in Dialogue with Art and Audience." This pioneering event strives to create a sense of community, connection, and belonging through interactive discussion-concerts. Featuring the world premiere of a new work by Tufts faculty composer Kareem Roustom …
Celebrating Tufts Professor Emeritus David Locke
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesJoin the Tufts University Music Department, distinguished guest performers and speakers for a daylong series of events marking Ethnomusicologist David Locke’s influential tenure. Take in an 11 a.m. roundtable marking Locke’s impact on African music studies and performance in the North American academy; a 1:45 p.m. hour of performances and testimonials; a 3:30 p.m. symposium …
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Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #1: Why Write for Students?
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Composers begin the fall semester series of New Sounds Now with "Why Write for Students"? In a bi-institutional exchange, 10 Tufts composers attempt to answer this question by fulfilling commissioned pair-ups — making new pieces specifically for Rivers School Conservatory students as part of the Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young. …
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Simone Dinnerstein with Emmanuel Music
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesFollowing an immensely successful performance in June 2022, pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to perform with Emmanuel Music at Tufts University's Distler Hall. Described by The New York Times as "an utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation," Dinnerstein will perform with Emmanuel Music conducted by Artistic Director Ryan Turner in three piano concertos: …
Tufts Youth Philharmonic Auditions
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Department of Music invites advanced middle school and high school students ages 13 and up to audition for the Tufts Youth Philharmonic for the 2023-24 school year. Applications are due one week prior to auditions and can be completed on the TYP website, which also has additional information about audition requirements. Led …