On Monday, March 22nd, Music from Copland House time-travels across the centuries when it features Pulitzer prize-winning composer John Harbison’s provocative quartet for piano and strings entitled November 19, 1828, the day the beloved 19th-century master Franz Schubert passed away. This eerie, ethereal “musical hallucination” invokes moments in the Viennese composer’s life, his passage into […]
The Graduate Center presents Music from Copland House, UNDERSCORED: Jalbert Crossings. Join us for the virtual event on Monday, January 25, 2021 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST. Free; RSVP required. Please register here to receive Zoom invitation details and reminders via email. About this Event “Wonderful music, warm performances, full of humanity and empathy, confident and transparent.” – New […]
Congratulations to GC Alum Lukas Gabric (PhD Musicology, 2020), whose book The Rhythm Changes Guide has just been published: The Rhythm Changes Guide The most comprehensive guide for rhythm changes ever published, offering a wealth of information for beginners and professionals alike. Written in the language of the working musician and clearly laid out. The […]
Read about Professor Joe Straus’s groundbreaking work for which he was awarded the 2020 Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory for his book Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability: https://gc.cuny.edu/News/All-News/Detail?id=58385
Congratulations to GC Professor Mark Spicer, who has been awarded this year’s Outstanding Publication Award by the Society for Music Theory! The recipient of this year’s Outstanding Publication Award examines the harmonies of pop and rock music. Through a plethora of meticulous transcriptions and analyses, the article outlines the ways in which chord inversions, repeating […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that on December 2nd, 2017, the GC will be hosting a Leonard Bernstein Marathon in the Elebash Recital Hall! This event will be a monumental eight-hour concert featuring performances of Leonard Bernstein’s most beloved works and some hidden gems. World premieres of new works by contemporary […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that new faculty member Prof. David Grubbs will be performing at MoMA PS1 in “1+2+3: Solos, Duos, and Trios for Greater New York” on November 15th, 2015, from 1:30pm – 6pm. The performance is part of the landmark “Greater New York” exhibition, and Prof. Grubbs (guitar) […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that GC composition students Elizabeth Adams and Inés Thiebaut and GC Faculty member Dr. Jeff Nichols were recently featured in The Wall Street Journal for their participation in a concert at the Tenri Cultural Institute on Saturday, October 17th, 2015. (more…)
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that on October 2nd, 2015, a new work by composition Professor Jason Eckardt will be premiered by Flutist Claire Chase at The Kitchen in New York City, as part of her Density 2036 project. (more…)
The Graduate Center Music Program is pleased to share that D.M.A. pianist Wayne Weng will be performing a solo recital in the Masterworks Series at Bargemusic on August 21st, 2015 at 8pm. Bargemusic is New York City’s famous floating concert hall, moored in Brooklyn, just under the Brooklyn Bridge. The program will include the following: Ravel’s Pavane […]
The Graduate Center Music Program is please to share that on May 23rd, 2015, The Curiosity Cabinet will be presenting a new collaborative work titled “The Curious Tale of Ed Leedskalnin” with puppeteer Daniel Fay at The Standard Toykraft in Brooklyn, featuring new music by GC composer Whitney George, and with GC DMA alumna Alice Jones playing […]
