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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Title: Voice Recital: Studio of Kathryn Fields
Description:
Voice students from the studio of Kathryn Fields will perform a recital.
Free and open to the public.
Grant Recital Hall is newly renovated and accessible. To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Grant Recital Hall (behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue)
Start time: Sunday, November 22, 2009 07:00 PM
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Title: "Música Negra to Música Urbana: Reggaeton, Race, and Commerce"
Description:
"Música Negra to Música Urbana: Reggaeton, Race, and Commerce"
Wayne Marshall, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT co-editor of _Reggaeton_ (Duke University Press, 2009)
Wayne Marshall is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. From 2007 to 2009 he was the Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology at Brandeis University, offering courses in Music and African and Afro-American Studies with a specialization in popular music and digital culture, Caribbean and (Afro)American music, and ideologies of race and nation. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology (2007) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he completed a dissertation titled Routes, Rap, Reggae: Hearing the Histories of Hip-Hop and Reggae Together. Dr. Marshall has taught courses and lectured on music, culture, and society at Brandeis University, the University of Chicago, Harvard College, Brown University and other institutions across the United States and in the Caribbean. He has published reviews and essays in Popular Music, Ethnomusicology, Callaloo, Latin American Music Review, and The World of Music while writing for a broader audience via such journalistic outlets as XLR8R magazine, the Fader, and the Boston Phoenix. He is co-editor of the book _Reggaeton_ (with Raquel Rivera and Deborah Pacini Hernandez; Duke University Press, 2009). Dr. Marshall is also an active DJ and blogger (http://wayneandwax.com).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the Center Latin American and Caribbean Studies with support from a Salomon Course Development grant.
Free and open to the public.
To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Orwig 315 (Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue)
Start time: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 06:00 PM
Friday, December 4, 2009
Title: Piano workshop
Description:
A piano workshop featuring students in the Applied Music Program.
Free and open to the public.
Grant Recital Hall is newly renovated and accessible. To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Grant Recital Hall (behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue)
Start time: Friday, December 4, 2009 04:00 PM
Title: Brown University Orchestra concert
Description:
The Brown University Orchestra will perform under the direction of Paul Phillips, conductor.
MOZART - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, K.22
MAHLER - Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
BRUCH - Romance for Viola & Orchestra, op. 85, featuring 2009 Concerto Competition winner Andrew Nixon (grad)
Program subject to change.
Tickets are $5 general, $3 Brown ID and seniors. Tickets will be available beginning on Monday, November 30 and at the door one-hour before the performance.
This concert will also be performed on Sunday, December 6 at 7pm in Sayles Hall.
To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Sayles Hall (on the Main Green accessible from Waterman and George Streets at Brown Street)
Start time: Friday, December 4, 2009 08:00 PM
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Title: AMP Piano Jury Recital
Description:
Students in the Applied Music Program will perform their final jury recitals.
Free and open to the public.
Grant Recital Hall is newly renovated and accessible. To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Grant Recital Hall (behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue)
Start time: Saturday, December 5, 2009 03:00 PM
Title: Brown University Jazz Band and Chorus concert
Description:
The Brown University Jazz Band and Chorus will perform together under the directions of Matthew McGarrell and Frederick Jodry.
Jazz Band - Tchaikovsky/Ellington "The Nutcracker"
Chorus - Handel's "Messiah"
Tickets - $10 General, $5 Brown ID/seniors.
Chorus Tour Fund benefit.
Available beginning Monday, November 30 in Orwig 101 and at the door one-hour before the performance.
To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Central Congregational Church (296 Angell Street)
Start time: Saturday, December 5, 2009 08:00 PM
Title: Brown New Music concert
Description:
Brown New Music will perform a concert.
Free and open to the public.
Grant Recital Hall is newly renovated and accessible. To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Grant Recital Hall (behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue)
Start time: Saturday, December 5, 2009 10:00 PM
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Title: Brown University Orchestra concert
Description:
The Brown University Orchestra will perform under the direction of Paul Phillips, conductor.
MOZART - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, K.22
MAHLER - Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
BRUCH - Romance for Viola & Orchestra, op. 85, featuring 2009 Concerto Competition winner Andrew Nixon (grad)
Program subject to change.
Tickets are $5 general, $3 Brown ID and seniors. Tickets will be available beginning on Monday, November 30 and at the door one-hour before the performance.
This concert will also be performed on Friday, December 4 at 8pm in Sayles Hall.
To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Sayles Hall (on the Main Green accessible from Waterman and George Streets at Brown Street)
Start time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 07:00 PM
Title: Advanced Songwriting GISP final concert
Description:
An evening of new original songs by students in the Advanced Songwriting GISP. Featuring performances by Josh Garcia, Roman Gonzalez, Jonathan Leibovic, Ben Nicholson, Jeremy Noah, Julie Osburne-Rothstein, Rosalind Schonwald, and Parker Silzer.
Free and open to the public.
Grant Recital Hall is newly renovated and accessible. To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact Ashley Lundh [401.863.3234 - Ashley_Lundh@brown.edu] as far in advance of the event as possible.
Location: Grant Recital Hall (behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue)
Start time: Sunday, December 6, 2009 09:00 PM
