From November 10-17, Prof. John Musto and Mark Campbell’s opera “Later the Same Evening” will be have a four-night run as a part of the 2024 NEC Festival. The festival honors the legacy of John Heiss with a weeklong series of performances, discussions, and more, and celebrates visionary American composers Charles Ives (1874–1954) and Ruth […]
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The January 16th proposal deadline for this year’s GSIM conference is fast approaching!
The students of the Department of Music at The Graduate Center, CUNY, are pleased to announce the 26th Annual GSIM Conference, to be held virtually on March 24-25, 2023. We invite graduate students in all disciplines who work on music to submit proposals for presentations on any topic. We are accepting proposals for academic papers and […]
Alice Xue, Music Theory
Alice Xue will present her essay “The Nostalgic Modernists: Tradition and Pop in Por Por Music of Accra, Ghana” at the Society of Music Theory’s (SMT) 2022 Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 12. This is Alice’s first presentation ever at a national conference! Alice hopes that she does well and makes her advisor professor Kofi […]
Carlos Cuestas, Ethnomusicology
Carlos, a PhD Candidate in the Ethnomusicology Program, will present “After All, Music is the Cherry on Top:” Amateur Radicalism and Affective Strategies of Son Jarocho Colectivos in Southern Veracruz” at the 2022 Society for Ethnomusicology conference in New Orleans. Carlos’s ethnographic research investigates how young activists in Veracruz, Mexico, use the collective music-making features […]
Rebecca Moranis, Music Theory
Rebecca Moranis was chosen to participate in a graduate student workshop at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting in November 2022 in New Orleans. The workshop is led by Professor Nancy Rogers (Florida State University) and is titled “Intersections of Music Cognition and Music Theory Pedagogy.” The goal of this workshop is to use […]
Graeme Steele Johnson (DMA, Clarinet) joins WindSync
Congratulations are in order to DMA candidate Graeme Steele Johnson who has recently been named the new clarinetist of the ensemble. WindSync is one of very few ensembles of its kind which is full-time and has an international touring schedule. Congratulations Graeme! More info on the ensemble can be found here: https://www.windsync.org
GC Professor Philip Ewell: “On Confronting Music Theory’s Antiblackness: Three Case Studies”
On Friday, March 26, 2021 – 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., GC Professor Philip Ewell will present a talk, “On Confronting Music Theory’s Antiblackness: Three Case Studies” on the Columbia University Music Colloquium Series. Abstract: The Summer 2020 controversy over Vol. 12 of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies has changed the course of American music theory in ways not seen […]
NY Philharmonic Commissions New Work by GC Distinguished Professor Tania Léon
The new season announcement for the New York Philharmonic revealed that GC Distinguished Professor Tania Léon’s commissioned work will be performed at David Geffen Hall in February 2020 as part of the orchestra’s “Project 19” initiative. “To mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which barred states from denying voting rights based on gender, the […]