music

The CWRU Spartan Marching Band (SMB) will host the inaugural SMB Invitational Saturday, Oct. 22, during the Spartan football game versus Geneva College. The Lakewood High School Ranger Marching Band will join CWRU’s Spartan Marching Band for a joint performance titled “Vintage Cartoons: Themes…

Want to sing with a group of dynamic people? Join Case Concert Choir and share in the excitement of making music together. Auditions will be held today (Aug. 29) and Wednesday, Aug. 31, from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Harkness Chapel Classroom. The ensemble is open to all undergraduate and graduate…

Greg Banaszak, a music instructor with a whimsical air about him, explained his desire to master the saxophone as pure instinct. After hearing Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are” at 10 years old, he said, something clicked. He didn’t even know the instrument being played. But he instantly told his…

The Oxford University Press published an excerpt from Ross Duffin’s chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare. Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, wrote a chapter titled “Music and the Stage in the Time of Shakespeare.” He explained the history of instruments from…

When Ryan Anthony first felt sharp pains in his ribs while blowing into his trumpet, he never imagined he’d be diagnosed with multiple myeloma—a cancer of the cells formed in his bone marrow—and given two to three years to live. Anthony was just 43, with an extremely rare and incurable disease…

Susan McClary, professor and head of musicology, will receive an honorary Doctor of Music honoris causa from McGill University May 31. McClary was selected for her reputation as one of the world’s leading feminist musicologists. She is known for publishing Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and…

Shake out your mid-semester slump with tonight’s Spot Night event, featuring garage-pop band Yuck, with opener Big Thief. The show will begin tonight (April 8) at 9 p.m. at Leutner Commons. Learn more about the musicians.

It’s been a whirlwind of a year—complete with international travel—for Case Western Reserve University students and saxophonists Matthew Castner, Leah Feitl, Collin Kemeny and Ryan Rose, who comprise the Ingeniare Quartet (named for their backgrounds in engineering). Next up: Performing at the…

After a brief hiatus for spring break and the Spring Comedian Show, Spot Night, University Program Board’s weekly free concert night, is back. Punk band Screaming Females and opener Surf Deer, will perform tonight to get things moving again. The event is free and open to the public. Learn more…

Case Men's Glee Club, Solstice, Speakeasy and Case in Point will come together to perform the Spring a Capella Festival Saturday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.