music
February 12, 2014
Case Collegium Musicum will present The Roman De Fauvel Sunday, Feb. 16, at 3 p.m. in Harkness Chapel.
The medieval ensemble, directed by Debra Nagy, professor of music, will tell the story of the Roman de Fauvel, a famous fable from 14th-century France in which a donkey becomes king and corruption...
January 31, 2014
By Jack Behrend
Now in his third year at ϳԹ, Al Rodriguez is like many college students: He works hard in classes, relaxes with his fraternity brothers and enjoys spending time on his favorite hobby. That hobby, however, is not like most students’.
After all, how man...
December 05, 2013
Case in Point, a co-ed a capella group at ϳԹ, 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...
December 03, 2013
ϳԹ 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...
November 13, 2013
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...
November 12, 2013
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 ϳԹ Univers...
October 25, 2013
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...
October 22, 2013
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...
September 12, 2013
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...
September 09, 2013
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and ϳԹ 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...