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Check out the newly revamped website of the Music Library!
http://www.library.upenn.edu/music
Four final concerts in Daedalus Quartet's Beethoven cycle at Penn
In a Philadelphia first, the Daedalus Quartet, Penn’s quartet-in-residence, performs the 16 masterpieces that make up Beethoven’s quartet cycle, all in a single season. The four final performances are: Sunday, February 4 @ 3 PM Annenberg Center “After this, what’s left to write?” Staged reading of Opus by Michael Hollinger Discussion with the playwright and Penn Theatre Arts Program Professor, Marcia Ferguson Quartet no. 14 in C# minor, Op 131
Colloquia calendar for the spring semester
Please go to:/colloquia/about-our-colloquia-series This calendar will be updated as new events are added (bookmark it!).
Documentary Film Screening on Wed. *Jan. 17* at 6:45 pm! "Sakthi Vibrations" (Zoe Sherinian)
New Documentary Film Screening on January 17, 2018, 6:45 p.m., by esteemed ethnomusicologist Zoe Sherinian (University of Oklahoma) Where: The Lerner Center (Music Building), 201 S. 34th St. (near Walnut)Room 102 (ground floor) Abstract
14 November Colloquium: Julie Napolin (The New School) on "Narrative Acoustics"
Abstract:"If there is a space of thinking, either real or virtual, then within it there must also be sound, for all sound seeks its expression as vibration in the medium of space,” writes Bill Viola. We think of narrative as being with “space” and, while we understand literature as being with a poetics and rhetoric, we do not ask after its acoustics. What, then, is narrative acoustics? In a triple gesture, it is the making of narrative space by sound, the virtual hearing of sounds in narrative and intertextual space, and the narrative of sonic change.
Composer Jeremy Gill (Ph.D., 2000) releases new CD
Before the Wrestling Tides, BMOP.
Congratulations to Shelley Zhang for receiving SSHRC Fellowship!
Shelley Zhang is a 2017-2020 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship recipient. The most prestigious prize in Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship is a national award that supports students who demonstrate outstanding research potential and scholarly achievement. SSHRC recipients are selected through a highly competitive, multi-stage process. As a result of this prize, the University of Pennsylvania has awarded Shelley sixth year funding.