Past Events



Penn Wind Ensemble

The Canon - Past and Present
Apr 13, 2024 at - | Irvine Auditorium - Main Hall, 3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104



Music in the Pavilion: Perspectives on Bartók’s Second Quartet

Featuring Daedalus Quartet
Apr 10, 2024 at - | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center, 6th floor, 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

The Daedalus Quartet performs and Lynn Hooker explores Bartók’s Second Quartet in the context of Orientalism, Arabic influences and musical nationalism.



A Musical Journey To Cyprus

Music in the Stacks Concert Series
Apr 9, 2024 at - | Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center, 6th floor, 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Three accomplished musicians lead an imaginary journey to Cyprus through traditional songs of love, sorrow, and hope.



Performing Preservation: White Women’s Voices and Old South Black Song

Colloquium Lecture by Mark Buford
Apr 9, 2024 at - | Penn Music Building - Lerner 101, 201 S. 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

This talk considers inscrutable contradictions in the reception of three early twentieth-century white southern women expressly committed to preserving antebellum Black vernacular song by performing the voices of their childhood “mammies.”