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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
How do sacred Jewish texts influence pop culture? Find out at upcoming lecture
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,…
Historic "Violins of Hope" come to Greater Cleveland this fall
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.…
Baroque Orchestra to give free, public concert Sunday
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…