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Case in Point, a co-ed a capella group at Case Western Reserve University, will hold its final show of the semester on Friday, Dec. 6, at 6:30 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. The group will be joined by SUNY Fredonia’s a capella group, Some Like It Hot, traveling all the way from New York to perform. For...

Case Western Reserve University community members are invited to attend the inaugural Spartan Winterfest 2013. Spartan Winterfest is a holiday-themed music festival that will bring students and community members together to celebrate the winter holiday spirit. A variety of musicians and groups wil...

Not many think of composers getting fired, but it happened to George Frideric Handel, the composer of such great works as the Messiah, Water Music and Music for Royal Fireworks, when the Elector of Hanover ousted him in 1713. How and why it happened is the subject of the talk, “Politics in Early 18t...

Music has a way to soothe the soul, and for many people from the LGBT community music has done that. Along the way, it gave rise to a type of music called queer music. New findings about this music tradition’s history is the topic of conference on queer music, hosted by Case Western Reserve Univers...

The Center for Popular Music Studies and the Progressive Art Alliance are teaming up to bring hip-hop DJ and turntablist DJ Rob Swift to campus. Join Swift for an interactive presentation about the art of DJing during “Innovation in Modern Music: Understanding the Craft of the DJ/Turntablist” on Sa...

Alan Light, former editor-in-chief of Spin and Vibe magazines, a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Rolling Stone, and the author of The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah,” will give the 18th Annual Music Masters Keynote Lecture and...

Stephen Hefling, professor of musicology, will present a lecture on Gustav Mahler’s love letters—a topic about which he was prominently featured in The New York Times earlier this summer. Hefling hopes to publish a 59-page love letter from Mahler, a composer who was seen as fairly chaste, to one of...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University will honor 1989 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees the Rolling Stones during the 18th Annual Music Masters series, “It’s Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It): The Music of The Rolling Stones,” Oct. 21-26 in Cleveland. This...

David Ake, professor of musicology and an accomplished jazz scholar and musician, was appointed chair of the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University. Since 2011, Ake has served as director of the School of the Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno. A member of the university’s facul...

Discover first hand the true harmony of art and music brought to life when a few dozen colorful, artistically decorated pianos appear throughout University Circle and other Greater Cleveland sites—all yours to play. Play Me, I’m Yours, an interactive, musical public art installation inspired by Bri...