February 9 Edition of the Department of Music Synthesizer | |
Announcements & Reminders | |
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SIGN UP FOR LUNCH WITH THE CHAIR
and new option for BRUNCH WITH CHAIR!
You won’t want to miss this opportunity to meet with Dan Trueman and a small group of other students from the Music Department, to get to know one another, share your thoughts and ideas about the music student experience, and to ask any question that’s on your mind.
Students: Please fill out this form for the "Lunch with the Chair" series.
If we have more students sign up than spots available,
we will do a lottery to form a lunch group.
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Announcements & Reminders | |
What Actually Happens At An Academic Music Conference?
Every November, thousands of music theorists and musicologists descend upon the vast ballrooms of America’s metropolitan convention hotels for their annual academic society meeting. This past November, the American Musicological Society (AMS), which celebrates its ninetieth annual meeting in 2024, and Society for Music Theory (SMT) held their joint conference in the Mile-High City of Denver, Colorado. Many Princetonians shared research that sparked inspiring conversation and collaboration!
Click here to read the full piece.
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Trenton Arts at Princeton Celebrates Five Years
TAP builds up to a commemorative crescendo for the program's fifth anniversary this year with a February arts education panel and an April performance showcase.
To read the full piece, click here.
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DEPT OF MUSIC EVENTS:
Visit our e-calendar to check out upcoming performances and colloquia. Click below to see the full calendar, and check out these upcoming events:
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Jazz Vocal Collective Presents "Sisters in Song"
JAZZ VOCAL COLLECTIVE (JVC) is a small jazz ensemble that features solo voice and a rhythm section (e.g. piano, guitar, bass, and drums) and horns to create a collaborative musical experience. Under the direction of Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin, the Jazz Vocal Collective’s winter concert will celebrate life, love, and culture through diverse musical styles and composers.
Join us for a wonderful night of music featuring special guest Tammy McCann.
Celebrating the music of Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and more.
Saturday, February 10, 2024, 8 PM
CLICK HERE FOR JVC TICKETS AND INFO
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A Masterclass with Anton Rist, Clarinetist
Principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Anton Rist works with talented Princeton University students in a free workshop, sponsored by the Donna Weng Friedman ’80 Masterclass Series. A concert will be held after the masterclass with Anton Rist, presenting Gerald Finzi’s 5 Bagatelles, Amanda Harberg’s Clarinet Sonata, and Mieczylaw Weinberg’s Clarinet Sonata, with pianist Luis F. Ortiz.
Sunday, February 11, 2024, 2 PM
CLICK HERE FOR MASTERCLASS INFO
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Performance, Policy, and Pedagogy: A Conversation About Arts Education
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Trenton Arts at Princeton, we are convening four thought leaders for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of arts education: Anne Fitzgibbon *98, founder and executive director of the Harmony Program; Baffour Osei, manager of Princeton’s robotics lab; Anna Yu Wang, assistant professor of music at Princeton; and Elizabeth Zwierzynski, acting supervisor of visual and performing arts and partnerships for the Trenton Public Schools.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 5 PM
CLICK HERE FOR ARTS EDUCATION CONVERSATION INFO
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Composer Colloquium: Eric Wubbels
Eric Wubbels (b.1980) is a composer and performer. Since 2004 he has been pianist and Co-Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble (NYC). His music has been presented by LA Phil Green Umbrella series, Huddersfield Festival, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, Bowerbird, Chicago Symphony MusicNOW, New York Philharmonic CONTACT, Contempuls (Prague), TIME:SPANS, and Zurich Tage für Neue Musik, among others. At the composer colloquium, Wubbels will discuss his work with the Princeton University community.
Thursday, February 15, 2024, 4 PM
CLICK HERE FOR COLLOQUIUM INFO
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Glee Club Presents American Spiritual Ensemble
The American Spiritual Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Everett McCorvey, performs alongside The Princeton University Glee Club.
Saturday, February 17, 2024, 7:30 PM
CLICK HERE FOR GLEE CLUB CONCERT TICKETS AND INFO
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Princeton Sound Kitchen Presents TAK
Chamber ensemble TAK performs new works by Princeton University graduate student composers. New works by Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, Gemma Peacocke, Christian Quiñones, Elijah Daniel Smith, and Max Vinetz.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 8 PM
CLICK HERE FOR PRINCETON SOUND KITCHEN INFO
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Musicology Colloquium: Emily Frey
Emily Frey is Assistant Professor of Music at Brandeis University. Originally from rural New Jersey (which does, in fact, exist), Emily received her B.A. in Russian literature and music from Amherst College. She completed her M.Phil. in musicology at Cambridge University and her Ph.D. in music history and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research on opera and psychological prose in 1870s Russia was awarded an Alvin H. Johnson/AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship. Emily’s publications include articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th-Century Music, Rimsky-Korsakov and His World,Rachmaninoff and His World, and The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. She is currently finishing her first book, Opera and Realism in the Russian Empire.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 5 PM
CLICK HERE FOR MUSICOLOGY COLLOQUIUM INFO
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERTS | | |
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Alexander Melnikov, Piano
Isabelle Faust, Violin
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello
When the Faust-Queyras-Melnikov trio first came to PUC in 2020 with an all-Beethoven program, their sold-out performance was pronounced one of the most profound recitals in recent history. Individually, each artist is exceptional; together, they are nothing short of astonishing. These three international stars once again combine their talents in a joint appearance that promises to be just as poignant, offering a fascinating chamber version of Beethoven’s joyous second symphony, Elliott Carter’s witty final composition, and Dvorak’s popular trio inspired by the “dumka,” a Ukrainian folk genre.
Thursday, February 15, 2024, 7:30 PM
CLICK HERE FOR CONCERT TICKETS AND INFO
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Music Mentoring Program Spring Welcome Event | Music Mentoring Program Spring Welcome Event on Thursday, February 15th from 5-7:30pm in the Woolworth Lobby. We invite you to swing by, have some pizza and socialize with fellow mentors and mentees! | | |
MENDEL MUSIC LIBRARY NEWS | |
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Did you know that the Library has a subscription to Digital Theatre Plus? Digital Theatre Plus (DT+) is one of Mendel Music Library’s many streaming video databases that can be accessed by Princeton users. This ever-expanding resource has several categories of content: productions, interviews, workshops, guides, and lesson plans. Watch works from Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC, BroadwayHD, the Lincoln Center Theater, the Old Vic, Shakespeare's Globe, L.A. Theatre Works, the Royal Opera House, the English National Ballet, and many more.
Check out this fabulous resource today! Click here for more information.
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CHAPEL | |
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Friday, February 23, 2024, 8:00 PM
Princeton University Chapel
In celebration of his recent release, “B A C H – The Gamut from ‘A’ to ‘G’,” University Organist Eric Plutz will recreate the CD in this performance of Toccatas, Preludes, Fantasias, and Fugues in each key from A to G. An All-Bach concert, organ tone running the gamut from sweet fragility to thunder, all in the soaring acoustic of the Princeton University Chapel – what could be better? Free concert, open to the public.
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"People on Sunday” (Siodmak, Ulmer, Wilder, 1930): Improvised Music + Silent Film + Discussion
Monday, February 12, 2024, 4:30- 6:30 PM
The next Music and Film event will begin with Andrew Lovett (Music) improvising a piano accompaniment to a screening of an extract from "People on Sunday” (Siodmak, Ulmer, Wilder, 1930). Jazz pianist, Jacob Khawaja will then join him onstage and play an alternate accompaniment to the same extract pausing occasionally to discuss his musical choices with Andrew. There will time left at the end for a general discussion with members of the audience.
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Intersections Working Group
King's Vibrato: Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 12:00 - 1:20 pm
McCosh B14 (Hinds Library)
Maurice Wallace
Professor, Associate Chair, Department of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Lunch provided with registration. Click here to learn more
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