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The Case Western Reserve University Baroque Orchestra Concert will perform “Angelic Cascades and Devilish Flourishes” Monday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. The orchestra, directed by senior instructor of music Julie Andrijeski, will perform pieces by Jean-Marie LeClair and Pietro…

Ed Caner vividly remembers the first time he took the stage with Smokey Robinson. It was 1990, and Caner was playing violin for Robinson’s fans on a floating stage in the Cuyahoga River. The crowd, Caner recalled, was “overwhelmingly supercharged.” After that first night, Caner was hooked. Since…

Join Case Western Reserve University choirs and orchestras to perform winter holiday favorites and Christmas carols at the 2015 University Circle Carol Sing Sunday, Dec. 6, at 4 p.m. at the Church of the Covenant. No audition is required, but members should be able to read music and participate…

The Case Western Reserve University Department of Music will host a performance titled “Voice Dance,” as part of the Fall Chorus Concert. The concert will be held Friday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. University Singers, directed by Marshall Haning, and the Case Concert Choir, directed…

Dave Marsh, rock critic and historian, anticensorship activist and talk show host, will present “You Really Got a Hold on Me,” the keynote lecture for the 20th Annual Music Masters (AMM) series presented by Case Western Reserve and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Marsh’s lecture is…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…