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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

The Bible continues to influence Israeli culture, even in the rock, hip-hop and rap music scene. Learn how pop stars are mining sacred Jewish texts to provide an unexpected window into Israeli art forms, both secular and Jewish, at “Hip-Hoppin’ Jews: on the Bible and Israeli Pop Music.” The talk,…

Community collaboration to offer concerts, exhibitions and educational opportunities centered on the role of music and musicians during the Holocaust More than a half dozen organizations across the community have come together to bring the historic Violins of Hope to Northeast Ohio this fall.…

The Case Western Reserve University Baroque Orchestra will present “Virtuosi à Due: Concertos for Trumpets, Natural Horns, Violins, and Basses” Sunday, April 19, at 8 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. Julie Andrijeski, senior instructor of music, will direct the performance. The concert is free and open…

Two Case Western Reserve University faculty members recently joined the ranks of the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellows. Elina Gertsman, associate professor of art history, and Daniel Goldmark, associate professor of music, were elected to this year’s 70-member class…

The Case Western Reserve University Department of Music will host the “Folly, Shipwrecks and Battles: Early Spanish Music for Voices and Instruments” collaborative concert Sunday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. The concert will feature the Early Music Singers, directed by Ross W.…