Music
Rémi Bolduc: Talk Jazz with Rémi!
What goes through the mind of a jazz improviser? Harmony, form, inner time, inner ear – what do these terms mean? Rémi Bolduc teaches you to understand and appreciate jazz by illustrating the basics through the ears of a jazz musician.
October 14, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Mark Fewer: Voice of the Violin
From the early baroque to jazz and the contemporary avant garde – discover how composers and innovators can’t get enough of the violin, and why so many think of it as the closest instrument to the human voice.
October 14, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Hank Knox: Making Old Things New
Watch us undo centuries of technological and musical evolution, excavating instruments from three or more centuries ago, peering at the marks on old sheets of music, arguing over the instruction manuals and comments of our musical predecessors… all in the service of bringing forth forgotten musical treasures and revealing them as they might have been when they were new.
October 14, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Richard King: How to Make a Recording in Three Easy Steps
Recording music follows three basic chapters: Recording, editing, and mixing. This lecture will provide a guided tour of a recording project from start to finish, from the audio engineer’s point of view. Audio examples will be presented and explained in detail, according to their role in the project.
October 14, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Sandy Pearlman: The Twelve Hallelujahs of George Handel and Leonard Cohen
How the Voice of God is both delivered and embodied in the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ of George Frideric Handel and Leonard Cohen’s song ‘Hallelujah’. How one was on purpose and one was not. How one exemplifies an old paradigm of singular authorship and how one exemplifies a much older paradigm of distributed authorship. How one became folk music and one will never be that but is still trying.
October 14, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Shelley Stein-Sacks: Presence and Experience
Talent, passion and dedication are musts, so are presence and experience. What that means and why it matters.
October 14, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Jens Lindemann: Success in music, success in life: Reflections on the career path of a professional musician
In this Mini-Music, Jens Lindemann, visiting professor of trumpet at the University of Los Angeles in California, joins us for a candid conversation.
August 18, 2011 at 11:00 am
Cynthia Leive: Music research and information literacy: Navigating the virtual library
In this Mini-Music, Cynthia Leive, head of the Marvin Duchow Music Library, leads a virtual tour through the cutting-edge world of musical information.
July 8, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Aiyun Huang, Fabrice Marandola: The evolution of the percussion ensemble: A striking story
In this Mini-Music, percussion professors Aiyun Huang and Fabrice Marandola get hearts pounding with their history of drums and other rhythm-makers.
July 8, 2011 at 4:49 pm
Douglas McNabney: Haydn: Patriarch of the String Quartet
Chamber music professor Douglas McNabney offers an introduction to the era of classical music and the classical quartet.
July 8, 2011 at 4:49 pm
