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Attend concert featuring Italian music of the late middle ages
The Case Western Reserve University Collegium Musicum will perform “The Beginning of Joy: Italian Music of the Late Middle Ages” Saturday, Oct. 31, at 7:30 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. The concert will feature guest artist Shira Kammen. Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music and head of t...
Historical Performance Program to hold concert Oct. 25
The Historical Performance Program will give its first concert of the year Sunday, Oct. 25, at 3 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. The performance is titled “Rhetorical Virtuosity: The ‘New Music’ of 17th-Century Italy.” Julie Andrijeski, senior instructor of music, and Christopher Bagan, lecturer in music...
CWRU to award honorary degree to legendary singer-songwriter-producer, Smokey Robinson
Presentation opens 20th Annual Music Masters tribute concert on Nov. 7, presented with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Case Western Reserve University will award an honorary degree to William “Smokey” Robinson to open the 20th Annual Music Masters Series tribute concert at 7:30 p.m. on Sat...
Learn more about the early history of cartoon music at next Baker-Nord Center event
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Faculty-Work-in-Progress lecture with Daniel Goldmark, associate professor in the Department of Music, Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Goldmark will present “UPA and Modernist Cartoon Music.” The United Productions of Am...
Visit newly opened Maltz Performing Arts Center at Department of Music concerts Oct. 11-12
The Department of Music will host its first concerts at the newly opened Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center Oct. 11-12. The CWRU Symphonic Winds, conducted by Ryan Scherber, and the CWRU Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Paul Ferguson, will perform Sunday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. The Case/Univers...
Attend Center for Popular Music Studies conference Oct. 2-3
The Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University will present a graduate student conference, “Popular Music and Communities,” Oct. 2-3. During the two-day conference, speakers will explore how popular music works to establish and complicate constructions of community. The ev...
Maltz Performing Arts Center to open with historic Violins of Hope Concert
Sold-out opening concert featuring The Cleveland Orchestra on Sunday, Sept. 27, to be televised, live-streamed online Following 11 months of careful renovation, the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple – Tifereth Israel opens this Sunday, Sept. 27, with an extraordinary conc...
Next Baker-Nord Center event to feature talk on early street music in Paris
As a Fulbright Scholar in Paris during the 2014-2015 academic year, John Romey, a graduate student in the Department of Music, undertook an enormous archival project that catalogued and analyzed manuscript chansonniers and print sources, documenting song texts that circulated in street culture. Det...
CWRU musicologist is first to identify Leonardo da Vinci in 1505 engraving, solves mystery in Shakespeare comedy
Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University, recently solved not one, but two mysteries in the arts world. First, he figured out a puzzle about Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour's Lost. Weeks later, he discovered what appears to be a depiction of Leonar...
Two students selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2015-16
Two Case Western Reserve University students will spend the next year abroad as recipients of Fulbright Scholarships. Michael Bane, a fifth-year PhD candidate in music, is the third Fulbright Scholar from the music department in the last three years; he’ll study French musical history in Paris. Yilu...