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Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University
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Granoff Colloquium: The Modular Synthesizer
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe first Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University for the 2023-24 season features Michael Bierylo, an electronic musician, guitarist, composer and sound designer, on the topic "The Modular Synthesizer, An Improbable Instrument." Bierylo is a former faculty member at Berklee College of Music, where he is chair emeritus of the Electronic Production and Design …
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Author Talk: Melinda Latour – The Voice of Virtue
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesMelinda Latour, associate professor of musicology at Tufts University, discusses her monograph, "The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652" (Oxford, 2023), as part of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts Faculty Books Series. Free and open to the public with no tickets required.
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Music, Poetry, and Moral Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Department of Music is hosting an interdisciplinary conference bringing together an international group of musicologists, literary scholars and historians to consider how poetry and music in early modern Europe creatively explored questions of living and dying well. The conference is co-organized by Julien Goeury (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne) and Isabelle His (Université …
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Roundtable with Okyerema Asante
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Department of Music presents a roundtable discussion with Ghanaian percussionist Okyerema Asante featuring guests Michael Veal (Yale University), Ingrid Monson (Harvard University), Maya Cunningham (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Stephan Pennington (Tufts). This event is part of "Jazz Transnationalism and Intercultural Intersections Between Africans and African Americans," a two-week residency at Tufts …
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Granoff Colloquium: Musical Pedagogies in Percussive Dance
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Granoff Music Center Colloquium series at Tufts University features Samantha Jones of Harvard University on her research on musicality in percussive dance. Focusing on the non-competitive and social styles of Old-Style Irish Step and sean-nós dancing, she examines how musical and choreographic knowledge circulates through embodied modes of transmission. Oral mnemonics, hand gestures, notation …
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Granoff Colloquium: Joel LaRue Smith
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Granoff Music Center Colloquium series at Tufts University features Joel LaRue Smith, senior lecturer in the Tufts Department of Music. He will speak on how the intersection of culture, theory and composition open our possibilities for freedom in performance. Through compositions and performance, Smith reveals how social and musical theories give inspiration to change, …
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Granoff Colloquium: Kyra Gaunt – Uttered Silence
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe 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 …
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