2011-12 Music Department Calendar of Events

Monday February 13 at 4:15 pm
Davison Room
Loeb Library 2nd floor, Music Building

BARWICK COLLOQUIUM

Arthur Kampela
composer

"Timbre, Ergonomics and Micro-Metric Modulations: A Compositional Assessment"

Free and open to all.

NOTE: Free parking for this event in BROADWAY garage

LISTEN to the Chiara [Brahms String Quartet C minor]

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Friday February 17 at 8:00 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

BLODGETT CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SERIES
The Chiara Quartet

Program
Schubert: Quartet No. 13 in A minor “Rosamunde”
Schubert: Quartet No. 12 in C minor “Quartettsatz”
Schubert: Quartet No. 14 in D minor “Death and the Maiden”

FREE and open to all.

The concert is free but tickets are required. Free tickets can be picked up at Harvard Box Office, Holyoke Center, beginning February 3rd.
FREE PARKING will be available for this concert at the BROADWAY GARAGE (Felton Street, opposite Broadway Market)

Harvard Box Office

Saturday, February 18 at 8:00 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

Harvard Group for New Music

With Ensemble Nikel
[audio samples]

Free and open to all.

Saturday February 18 at 8:00 pm
Sanders Theatre

HOLDEN CHORAL MUSIC AT HARVARD

Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum
40th Anniversary Concert
Rachmaninoff: Vespers
Andrew Clark, Conductor

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Box Office

Tuesday February 21 at 12:15 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

Olivier Messiaen: Visions De L'Amen, for two pianos (1943)

DAN SEDGWICK and MILES WALTER, pianos

Free and open to all! This lunchtime concert will conclude at 1:05 pm.

Wednesday February 22 at 7:00 pm
Dance Center, Studio 2

Humanities Center Seminar: Music, Sensory Ecologies and the Body

Michelle Bach-Coulibaly
(Brown University)
"Empathy and Presence in the Body"

Thursday February 23 at 5:00 pm
Harvard Humanities Center Opera Seminar
Barker Center, Room 133

Heather Wiebe
University of Virginia

"Performing Encounter: Britten’s Asian Travels, Cold War Exchange, and Curlew River."

Wiebe is a noted Tippett and Britten scholar, and will speak on Britten's Curlew River in the context of his Asian tours in the Cold War.



Free and open to the public.

"We are convinced that this work should become recognized as an important part of America's music history. For complex part writing, beautiful melodic content and a mastery of classical forms, this work demonstrates why a young lad of 16 from Portland, Maine, was to become
through his dedicated career at Harvard 'the dean of American music"'
--Portland String Quartet

Friday February 24 at 5:00 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

CELEBRATING PAINE!
A concert and reception in celebration of the renovation and reopening of Paine Hall, the music classrooms, and our new practice rooms

The Portland Quartet
John Knowles Paine: String Quartet in D Major, Op.5
Walter Piston: Quartet No. 1

With two brief talks by Professors Evan MacCarthy and Anne Shreffler on the legacy and music of John Knowles Paine

Free and open to all.

Renovation of the music building this past year has resulted in new, state-of-the-art practice rooms, upgraded classrooms, and modernized heating and cooling of John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.

In celebration, the Music Department is hosting a performance of a recently-premiered work by its founder and Portland, Maine native, John Knowles Paine. The manuscript score of Paine's String Quartet in D Major, Op. 5, was made available to the Portland String Quartet by Houghton Library, and premiered in 2011. Also on the program is a work by Harvard composer and former Music Department chair, Walter Piston. [read more]

Saturday February 25
Beginning at 10 am

GRADUATE MUSIC FORUM CONFERENCE

Music Technology Media


Keynote address by Mark Katz

Room 9, Music Building

On Facebook

Monday February 27 at 4:15 pm
Davison Room
Loeb Library 2nd floor, Music Building

COLLOQUIUM

Barbara Milewski
Swarthmore College

"Camp Mementos from Krystyna Żywulska, and the Making of a Satirist-Songwriter in Auschwitz-Birkenau."


Free and open to all.

Monday February 27 at 6:00 pm
Thompson Room, Barker Center, Room 110
Mahindra Humanities Center

MASTER CLASS

Ingrid Monson
Harvard University

John Coltrane's A Love Supreme


Free and open to all.

Tuesday February 28 at 5:15 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall
Music Building

LOUIS C. ELSON LECTURE


Alvin Curran
composer

"The New Common Practice, or, A Life in Unpopular Music"

Free and open to all. READ MORE

[Listen to Curran's work]

Friday March 2 at 4:00 pm
Room Six
Music Building

COLLOQUIUM

Takanori Fujita
Research Centre for Japanese Traditional Music, Kyoto City University of Arts

"Primacy of Corporeality in the Transmission of Japanese Traditional
Music: Repetition and Indifference"

Co-sponsored by the Japan Forum and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

"In the transmission of Japanese music and performing arts,
repetitious practice and performance which discourage the
introduction of any changes and variations is a highly valued form
of learning. This mode of learning forces students and performers
to practice performing arts on a thoroughly corporeal basis, which
stresses repetition and indifference as conventions, and to
disregard theoretical background. The origins of such thought and
conventions may be easily traced to the doctrines and exegetical
texts of Zen Buddhism. On the other hand, one finds that it is not
text so much as the formal manners instituted in everyday life
which disposes learners and performers to maintain the thought and
conventions prevalent in the performing arts."-- Takanori Fujita

Free and open to all.

Friday March 2 at 8:00 pm
Sanders Theatre

HOLDEN CHORAL MUSIC AT HARVARD

Mozart: Requiem
Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society,
Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum
Professional Orchestra & Soloists

Andrew Clark, Conductor

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Box Office

Saturday March 3 at 8:00 pm
Lowell Lecture Hall

HARVARD UNIVERSITY BANDS

The Music of Vincent Persichetti
Harvard Wind Ensemble

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Box Office

Saturday March 3 at 8:00 pm
Sanders Theatre

HARVARD-RADCLIFFE ORCHESTRA
Federico Cortese, conductor

Junior Parents' Weekend Concert
Puccini: Tosca, Acts 2 & 3

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Box Office

Sunday March 4 at 3:00 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

ATELIER
Harvard undergraduate composers premiere works performed by
JUVENTAS ENSEMBLE

[listen to Juventas]

Free and open to the public. For additional information contact the Harvard University Composers Association at zsheets@college.harvard.edu
Made possible by the Einziger Fund.

Tuesday March 6 at 7:00 pm
Davison Room, Library 2nd floor
Music Building

COLLOQUIUM

Richard Widdess
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

"Temple singing in the Kathmandu Valley: performance, structure, meaning"

Cosponsored by the South Asia Initiative at Harvard and the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard..

Free and open to all.

Thursday March 8 at 12:15 pm
Faculty Room University Hall

UNIVERSITY HALL RECITAL SERIES

Olivia Lucas, voice
Samuel Parler, piano

FREE and open to all.

Thursday March 22 at 12:15 pm
Faculty Room University Hall

DEANS NOONTIME CONCERT
The Chiara Quartet


FREE and open to all.

NOTE: Free parking for this event at the BROADWAY garage

Friday March 23 at 8:00 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

BLODGETT CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SERIES
The Chiara Quartet

Program
Haydn: Quartet Op. 76 No. 5
Ann Cleare: Moil*
Bartok: Quartet No. 3
Brahms: Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67

*Blodgett Composition Competition Winner


FREE and open to all.

The concert is free but tickets are required. Free tickets can be picked up at Harvard Box Office, Holyoke Center, beginning March 9..
FREE PARKING will be available for this concert at the BROADWAY GARAGE (Felton Street, opposite Broadway Market)

Harvard Box Office

Thursday March 29 at 5:00 pm
Harvard Humanities Center Opera Seminar
Davison Room, Music Building (2nd floor of the Music Library)

Laurence Senelick
Fletcher Professor of Oratory
Tufts University

Professor Senelick will speak about his current book project on Jacques Offenbach and operetta in end-of-the-century urban culture



Free and open to the public.

NOTE: Free parking for this event at the BROADWAY garage

Friday March 30 and Saturday March 31 at 8:00 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

FROMM PLAYERS AT HARVARD
With Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Gil Rose, conductor
Concert series curated by Hans Tutschku

Friday March 30 program
Charles Wuorinen Epithalamium
Gerard Grisey Jour, contre-jour
Jonathan Harvey Bhakti

Saturday, March 31 program
Kaija Saariaho Io
Alvin Lucier In Memoriam Jon Higgins 
Roger Reynolds Personae
Charles Wuorinen Epithalamium


FREE and open to all.


FREE PARKING will be available for this event at the BROADWAY GARAGE (Felton Street, opposite Broadway Market)

Tuesday April 3 at 12:15 pm
Faculty Room University Hall

UNIVERSITY HALL RECITAL SERIES

Tess Remy-Schumacher, cello
Valery Kuleshov, piano

FREE and open to all.

Friday April 13 at 8:00 pm
Sanders Theatre

HOLDEN CHORAL MUSIC AT HARVARD

Spring Concert
Harvard Glee Club & Radcliffe Choral Society

Andrew Clark, Conductor

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Box Office

Saturday, April 14 at 8:00 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

Harvard Group for New Music

With Frank Worner, bass-baritone

Free and open to all.

Monday April 16 at 4:15 pm
Davison Room, Music Library

COLLOQUIUM

Gianmario Borio, University of Pavia

The Indeterminate Status of the Audio/Visual Experience

Free and open to all.

Thursday April 19 at 12:15 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

UNIVERSITY HALL RECITAL SERIES

Paavali Jumpanen, piano

FREE and open to all.

Thursday April 19 at 5:00 pm
Harvard Humanities Center
Opera Seminar

Room 133, Barker Center

Workshop on Jacques Rancière's "The Emancipated Spectator," with Martin Puchner (Harvard Universisty), Andrew Sofer (Boston College), and Alessandra Campana (Tufts University)

Rancière's provocative look at spectatorship, its aesthetics and politics, is rapidly attracting a great deal of attention, and we will study and discuss its significance for opera in the company of some of the most interesting and dynamic voices in theatre studies.

Free and open to the public.

Friday April 20 at 8:00 pm
Sanders Theatre

HOLDEN CHORAL MUSIC AT HARVARD

SCHUBERT: Mass in A-flat
Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus

Kevin Leong, conductor

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Box Office

Saturday April 21 at 8:00 pm
Lowell Lecture Hall

HARVARD UNIVERSITY BANDS

Miles Ahead: Music Associated with Miles Davis
Harvard Wind Ensemble

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Box Office

Sunday April 22
2:00 pm -5:30 pm
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard

THE ORGAN IN THE ACADEMY
A Conference in Honor of Fisk Op. 139
Professors Thomas Kelly and Christoph Wolff host a conference in The
Memorial Church celebrating the new Fisk organ, Op. 139, and exploring the role of the organ in American universities. The keynote speaker will be
noted organist and conductor Professor John Butt of Glasgow University.

Saturday April 28 at 8:00 pm
Sanders Theatre

HARVARD-RADCLIFFE ORCHESTRA
Federico Cortese, conductor

ARTS First Concert
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat Suite
Debussy: Iberia
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 1 and 2
in collaboration with the Holden Choirs

Tickets available at Harvard Box Office.

Harvard Box Office

Thursday May 3 at 12:15 pm
Faculty Room University Hall

UNIVERSITY HALL RECITAL SERIES

William Cheng, piano

FREE and open to all.

Sunday, May 6 at 3:00 pm
Harvard University campus, location to be confirmed

REMEMBERING JOHN MILTON WARD, 1917-2011

Words and music in honor of the John Milton Ward, professor emeritus.

Saturday, May 12 at 8:00 pm
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall

Harvard Group for New Music
with MusikFabric
[Listen]

Free and open to all.