Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University
Granoff Colloquium: Listening to Ballet
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThis month's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University will feature Maeve Sterbenz, assistant professor of Music at Smith College, presenting the program "Listening to Ballet." Sterbenz will speak about a contemporary ballet called Seven Sonatas, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky to keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. In connection with this piece, the talk will consider …
Granoff Colloquium: Sean Williams
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents Evergreen State College professor of music Sean Williams speaking on the topic, "Irishness, Celtic Culture and Magical Whiteness in the 21st Century." Williams teaches ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, and Asian Studies at Evergreen State, located in Olympia, Washington. She is teaching “Ireland in History and Memory” …
Jason Yeager Lecture: New Songs of Resistance
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesNew York-based pianist and composer Jason Yeager presents a lecture about the music from his newest album, "New Songs of Resistance" (Outside in Music), which features electrifying arrangements of classic nueva canción repertoire from Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, as well as original compositions that speak to the troubling socio-cultural moment we are living through. An …
Granoff Colloquium: Timothy Cooley
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents UC Santa Barbara Professor of Music Timothy Cooley speaking on his recently published book, “Cultural Sustainabilities: Music, Media, Language, Advocacy.” The work focuses on the connection between environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability, and examines the potential for reversal of negative human impact on the …
Granoff Colloquium: John McDonald
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents Tufts professor of music John McDonald for the talk, "What Do I Always Do?" McDonald will explore how composers often get stuck reproducing the same parts of themselves as a result of musical habits/impulses. He'll examine how these get compounded with external expectations, and will …
Granoff Colloquium: Music Theory at the Movies
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents Vassar College Assistant Professor of Music Tahirih Motazedian speaking on “Music Theory at the Movies: Interpreting Sound Track Tonality.” Lunch to be served after the lecture. Free; no tickets required. Guest parking passes can be purchased at the Tufts University Police Department, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford. This colloquium …
Granoff Colloquium: Suzannah Clark
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents Harvard University Professor of Music Suzannah Clark on the topic “Heine, Liszt, and Commerce and Religion on the Rhine.” Clark is a Canadian-British musicologist and music theorist specializing in the music of Franz Schubert, the history of music theory, and medieval music. Free; no tickets required. Guest parking …
Film and Discussion: Othello in the Seraglio
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University presents a noontime screening of the film "Othello in the Seraglio: The Tragedy of Sümbül the Black Eunuch." Set in a 17th-century Istanbul coffeehouse, “Othello in the Seraglio” reimagines Shakespeare’s Othello as a former African slave, a powerful but aging Ottoman Eunuch who for years was overseer of the Sultan’s harem. The story is …
All Black People Are Not The Same: A Musical Discussion
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University presents an interactive panel discussion about the similarities and differences of African diasporic music and its respective cultures. The discussion will feature Tufts Department of Music faculty Emmanuel Attah Poku (Ghana), Joel LaRue Smith (United States), and special guest Kimani Bishop (Trinidad and Tobago). This event is co-sponsored by the Tufts Bridging Differences Grant, …
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Granoff Colloquium: Megan Kaes Long
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series at Tufts University presents Oberlin College Assistant Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long on the topic “What do Signatures Signify? The Curious Case of 17th-Century English Key.” Free; no tickets required. Guest parking passes can be purchased at the Tufts University Police Department, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford. This colloquium is …