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  • Composer/SOM Graduate Student Eric Brook to have original work performed at Grace University Lutheran Church on Friday, May 9

    Grace University Lutheran Church will present the work of SOM Composer/Graduate student Eric Brook on Friday, May 9 at Grace University Lutheran Church at 7:30 pm. Brook recently completed an eight-month residency at the church. For more information on the final concert of his composer residency, visit the Grace University Lutheran Church website. To read a related feature article on Brook’s composer residency, visit The Minnesota Daily web site.

    (Continue Reading)May 9th, 2008
  • University Opera Theatre students presenting "Opera on Tap" are featured in the Minnesota Daily

    University Opera Theatre students, Katherine Crawford and Brandon Miller, are featured in the Minnesota Daily for their work in the guerilla opera series Opera on Tap. Visit the Minnesota Daily website to read their story. Don't miss Opera on Tap on Monday, May 5 at 7 pm at the 400 Bar (400 Cedar Ave. South) in Minneapolis. This event is free and open to the public.

    (Continue Reading)May 2nd, 2008
  • Doug Geers discusses electronic music in the Minnesota Daily

    Read about and watch Doug Geers discuss electronic music in The Minnesota Daily . To view the story and for a link to a related feature video, visit the Minnesota Daily website. Don't miss the Electronic Music Project Showcase on Sunday, May 4 from 5-8 pm in Ferguson Hall, Room 215. This event is free and open to the public.

    (Continue Reading)May 2nd, 2008
  • "'Kentucky': Erasing and Reinscribing Race and Geography in Post-WWII Country and Bluegrass Music"

    Don't miss the Theory/Musicology/Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series lecture, 'Kentucky': Erasing and Reinscribing Race and Geography in Post-WWII Country and Bluegrass Music, with professors Sumanth Gopinath and Anna Schultz on Friday, May 2 at 2:30 pm in Ferguson Hall, Room 280. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.

    (Continue Reading)May 2nd, 2008
  • University Theatre Opera announces its 2008/2009 Season

    The University Opera Theatre will present The Rape of Lucretia, by Benjamin Britten in the fall of 2008 and Jenufa, by Leoš Janacek (in English) in the spring. Auditions for both operas are scheduled for Friday, April 25 from 7-10 pm and on Saturday, April 26th from 10:30 am-1:30 pm in Room 99. Contact David Walsh for more details.

    (Continue Reading)April 23rd, 2008
  • Canceled: 4/27/08 Faculty Chamber Concert: Timothy Lovelace, Mark Bjork, and Thomas Rosenberg

    The Faculty Chamber Concert featuring Timothy Lovelace, Mark Bjork, and Thomas Rosenberg on Sunday, April 27 at 7 pm has been canceled.

    (Continue Reading)April 18th, 2008
  • Theory/Musicology/Ethnomusicology Colloquium, "Words of Steel: Pete Seeger and the US Navy Steel Band" with Andrew Martin

    Don't miss the upcoming Theory/Musicology/Ethnomusicology Colloquium, "Words of Steel: Pete Seeger and the US Navy Steel Band" with Andrew Martin (Inver Hills Community College) on Friday, April 18 at 2:30 pm in Ferguson Hall Room 280. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.

    (Continue Reading)April 17th, 2008
  • Hear David Walsh featured KFAI Radio on April 10 at 7 pm on Art Matters

    Hear University Opera Theatre Director/Producer David Walsh on Arts Matters in conversation with host Marya Morstad on KFAI Radio (90.3 FM Minneapolis/106.7 FM St. Paul) at 7 pm on Thursday, April 10. Walsh discusses University Opera Theatre and their current production of The Coronation of Poppea, running from April 10 through April 13. Listen to the program online at KFAI's website.

    (Continue Reading)April 10th, 2008
  • Listen to David Walsh and University Opera Theatre on MPR

    Hear Director/Producer David Walsh in conversation with host Alison Young and listen to the cast of The Coronation of Poppea perform short musical segments on Minnesota Public Radio Classical (99.5 FM) starting on Wednesday morning, April 9 through Saturday, April 12. To read the feature and to listen to the story in its entirety visit their website and click on "Listen to feature audio".

    (Continue Reading)April 8th, 2008
  • See Doug Geers in a live webcast of the Sonic Divergence Festival on April 5 at 7:20 pm CST

    "Sweep," Doug Geers' concerto for violin with percussion and laptop orchestra, will be premiered this Saturday night, April 5, on the opening concert of the Sonic Divergence Festival at Northwestern University's Pick Satiger Concert Hall. The concerto will be played by violinist Maja Cerar, percussionist Cameron Britt, and the Princeton University Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). The fifteen laptop performers will play their instruments using Nintendo Wii wireless video game controllers.

    A live webcast of this concert will be broadcast from the Pick Staiger Hall website. Visit www.pickstaiger.org or the Northwestern University School of Music website between 7:20 and 7:30 p.m. CST for a link to the broadcast. You will need the latest version of Real Player. For further information about using Real Player, visit their website

    (Continue Reading)April 4th, 2008
  • Immanuel Davis featured on MPR Classical

    Hear Immanuel Davis featured on Minnesota Public Radio Classical (99.5 FM, KSJN) in conversation with host Alison Young. To read the story and to listen to the audio online, visit the MPR website. For information on Davis' Sunday, March 30th Flute Recital, visit the campus events website.

    (Continue Reading)March 29th, 2008
  • Mark Russell Smith Featured on Morning Edition

    Hear Mark Russell Smith and Jerry Luckhardt interviewed on MPR (91.1 FM, KNOW) on Morning Edition. To read the story and to listen to the audio online, visit the MPR website.

    (Continue Reading)March 20th, 2008
  • Fifth Annual Concert of Balkan Contemporary Music BALKANICUS: Music from Albania, Bulgaria and Romania

    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7:30 pm
    Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
    Free and open to the public

    Noriko Kawai, piano; John De Haan, voice; Nickolai Kolarov, cello; Rudolph Kremer, violin; and graduate students and members of the School of Music New Music Ensemble perform the works of Thomas Simaku (Albania), Ivan Spassov (Bulgaria), Simeon Pironkov (Bulgaria), Roumen Balyozov (Bulgaria), and Sorin Lerescu (Romania).

    (Continue Reading)March 19th, 2008
  • Bach and his Bible

    The Musicology and Theory Divisions are pleased to invite you to join us this Friday, March 14 at 2:30 in Rm. 280 in Ferguson Hall for a very exciting colloquium. Dr. Thomas Rossin, the founder and conductor of the Exultate choir, which is performing Bach's B-Minor Mass around the Twin Cities several times this month, will be exhibiting and speaking about J.S. Bach's personal Bible, its marginalia, etc, which was the topic of his doctoral dissertation.

    (Continue Reading)March 14th, 2008
  • Alex Lubet and Iris Shiraishi at Dreamland Arts

    Music for Japanese Instruments and Guitar
    featuring Alex Lubet (theory/composition) and Iris Shiraishi
    Fri, Mar 7 at 7:30 p.m.
    Dreamland Arts, 677 Hamline Ave. N.
    St. Paul, MN 55104
    651-645-5506
    http://www.dreamlandarts.com/events/detail.php?eventId=98
    Pay what you can at the door, please reserve seats.

    (Continue Reading)March 7th, 2008
  • Art Exhibit: Paradise and Purgatory

    Paradise and Purgatory, an exhibition of new two- and three-dimensional art by graduate students in the Department of Art will be on display in the Music Library and Wilson Library through April 14. For more information, visit the Library Exhibits page.

    (Continue Reading)February 27th, 2008

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