music

Celebrate the end of classes with a free night of a cappella music by Solstice and Speakeasy. The two groups will host a winter concert Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Harkness Chapel, where they will showcase new music and perform a joint piece. Cake and other food will be provided. All are…

Photo by Roger Mastroianni Play an instrument? Interested in a chance to perform in the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at the Temple–Tifereth Israel? Consider joining the Case Western Reserve University Symphonic Winds. Next semester, it will feature winners of the Concerto…

Richard F. Thomas—a Harvard University classics professor, teacher since 2004 of the first-year seminar “Bob Dylan,” and a celebrated “Dylanologist”—makes a compelling case for why the music and lyrics of Bob Dylan endure and inspire. At a Baker-Nord Center for Humanities event, Thomas will…

Join the CWRU Symphonic Winds and Spartan Marching Band for a free homecoming-themed concert Sunday, Oct. 8, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple – Tifereth Israel. Patrons will hear tunes from Spartan Marching Band and the groups will join forces…

The Department of Music will host a concert Sunday, Sept. 17, at 4 p.m. in Harkness Chapel, with the Baroque Chamber Ensembles performing music from 18th-century France. The Baroque Chamber Ensembles will present Michel Pignolet de Montéclair's cantata "Pyrame et Thisbé" alongside François…

Hearing a note or chord played perfectly in tune still has the power to send shivers through Ross W. Duffin. “It’s transcendent,” said Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, “precisely because it is such a rare achievement.” Duffin’s life in music could be defined the same way. Ross…

Lisa Koops, associate professor of music, recently had three articles published on early childhood music education. Her article, “‘You Get What You Get?’ Learner Agency in the Early Childhood Music Classroom,” was published in General Music Today. In the article, she suggests that providing…

The university community is invited to the Cleveland BlueWater Chamber Orchestra and the Cleveland Chamber Choir’s performance of the “Emergent Universe Oratorio” by composer Sam Guarnaccia, under the baton of conductor Scott MacPherson. The performance will be held today (June 30) from 7:30 to 9…

Early Music America named Allison Monroe the winner of its Barbara Thornton Memorial Scholarship. Monroe is set to receive her Doctor in Musical Arts in Historical Performance Practice this year. Early Music America gives the award to “an outstanding and highly motivated (and possibly…

Daniel Goldmark, director of the Center for Popular Music Studies, will give a presentation as part of the American Musicological Society and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lecture Series event series. Daniel Goldmark He will present “Anthologizing Rock and Roll: Rhino Records and the Repackaging of…