The 16th ICTM Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts’s conference, chaired by Dr. Zdravko Blažeković, on “Music in Popular Theater and Ritual” is taking place in Montevideo & Salto, in Uruguay, 23-26 October 2019. The conference is locally organized by the Centro de Investigación en artes y escénicas del litoral noroeste of the Universidad […]
Anthony McCall and David Grubbs, Simultaneous Soloists (Pioneer Works Press) Simultaneous Soloists is an artist’s book emerging from Anthony McCall’s exhibition Solid Light Works and the accompanying performance series Four Simultaneous Soloists, organized by David Grubbs. It documents these ephemeral events through multiple means: an extensive conversation between McCall and Grubbs detailing a decade of […]
Tina Frühauf received a DAAD Visiting Professorship to teach at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in the summer semester of 2019. Together with local faculty, she organized the symposium “Jewish Music in Southern Germany—History, Exile, Continuance,” held on 12-13 July 2019 at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut.
“Winnie” the Majestic review by Benoît Fauchet, Diapason, November 2018 translated by Sylvia Kahan What do Fauré’s theater music for Pelléas et Mélisande (1898), Stravinsky’s Renard (1916), Satie’s symphonic drama Socrate (1918), Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro (1923) and Poulenc’s Organ Concerto (1938) have in common? All of these remarkable works, and many others, […]
GC alumna Ji Yeon Lee’s dissertation “Climax Structures in Late Romantic Opera” was selected as the winner of this year’s National Opera Association dissertation competition. The award is given a doctoral candidate whose degree was conferred between September 1, 2016 and August 31, 2018. She was recognized at NOA’s annual meeting in Utah this past […]
The Graduate Center—CUNY is pleased to announce the appointment of Kofi Agawu to the faculty of the music department. Prof. Agawu is a scholar of enormous range who has had a lasting impact on three distinct fields of music studies: music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Kofi Agawu is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that our students and faculty will be strongly represented at the 2018 AMS/SMT Conference in San Antonio, TX from November 1-4. Eight students and three faculty members are presenting papers, one student is participating in a panel discussion, and three GC faculty are chairing different panels. A complete […]
The Graduate Center music program is pleased to share that two of our music Ph.D. students have won prestigious external writing fellowships to complete their dissertations. Ethnomusicology student Brian Bond has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to complete his dissertation, “A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that the 2016 AMS/SMT Conference was an incredible success for our students, faculty, and alumni! Six GC students presented papers, one student participated in a panel discussion, GC faculty chaired six different paper panels, four faculty members presented papers, faculty members were represented five times on special […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that Prof. David Grubbs will be giving an in-gallery talk at the New Museum this coming Thursday, March 3, at 3:30pm, as part of programming for the exhibition Anri Sala: Answer Me. The talk focuses on solo and duo musical performance, phase relationships, and overdubbing in sound recording through […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that Dr. Sylvia Kahan will be featured in a segment about Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac in the Smithsonian Channel’s series “Million Dollar American Princesses.” This 1-hour episode, narrated by “Downton Abbey” star Elizabeth McGovern, will air this coming Sunday night, January 10th, at 8:00 p.m. […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that on December 9th, 2015, Prof. David Grubbs will be performing in a benefit concert for the ISSUE Project Room. The concert celebrates the collaborative work of Prof. Grubbs and poet Susan Howe, and Prof. Grubbs will be performing a solo excerpt from the piece “Souls […]
