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James Díaz Curates Playlist Featuring Penn Music Composers for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
James Díaz, Fifth Year Graduate Student in Composition, curated a music playlist for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, an award-winning multimedia hub for living music creators powered by American Composers Forum.
Free Jazz Performance and Conversation for University Students
On Tuesday, February 7, South African saxophonist, McCoy Mrubata and American guitarist, Gary Wittner come together for a jazz performance and conversation with students. Free and open to all students living in the Quad and other College Houses! Indian food will be provided. February 7, 2023 (Tuesday) — 6:00 to 7:30 pm McClelland South Lounge in Ware College House 3650 Spruce Street Email camuller@upenn.edu if you want food.
Mary Channen Caldwell Featured in Penn Today as Organizer of Beowulf Roundtable with Penn Professors and Benjamin Bagby
Written down around the year 1000, Beowulf is one of the most important epic poems in history. Professors Mary Channen Caldwell of Music and David Wallace and Caroline Batten of English discussed the epic with Benjamin Bagby, who presents the text with his voice and a harp.
Mauro Calcagno Speaks With Penn Today About Experimental Italian Theater Coming To Annenberg Center
Mauro Calcagno, Associate Professor of Music with a secondary appointment in Italian Studies, is interviewed by Penn Today regarding the show of an Italian theater company at the Annenberg Center, which experiments with voice and electronic sounds. After being postponed several times due to the global pandemic, the company Teatro delle Albe performs the U.S. premiere of fedeli d'Amore (Love’s Faithful) on Friday, January 20 and Saturday, January 21, 2023.
Tyshawn Sorey Among Composers Selected for Koussevitzky Foundation Prize
The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress has awarded commissions for new musical works to seven composers. The commissions are granted jointly by the foundation and the performing organizations that will present the world premiere of each work.
UPenn Library Acquires Archives of The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Academy of Music
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries will facilitate research and access to nearly 175 years of Philadelphia's rich musical history provided by The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Academy of Music. In this remarkable collection includes everything from stock certificates and bylaws to conductor's files, photographs, programs, and sound recordings.
Mary Channen Caldwell Interview for the New Books Network
Mary Channen Caldwell was interviewed for the New Books Network about her new book Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song (Cambridge University Press 2022). In this podcast, she discusses the origin of her book, the vast landscape of Latin song in Medieval Europe, the significance behind her research on refrains, accessing manuscripts for her appendix, notational systems, and more!
Nuns Singing Song In Medieval Europe
"Did nuns in Medieval Europe sing anything other than chants and sacred songs? Mary Caldwell discusses one example, a song performed during the Christmas season." Read the seasonally timely guest post by Professor Caldwell in Women's Song Forum (WSF), an online forum devoted to women’s voices in song, to the many songs by women, and to the many female musicians working in and with song, who have yet to be given the attention they deserve.
2022 AMS/SEM/SMT Conference Features Seven Penn Music Scholars
American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), and Society for Music Theory (SMT) is holding their annual meetings jointly on 10-13 November 2022 in New Orleans. With upwards of 3000 attendees, it will be the largest scholarly music event in years and will feature hundreds of papers, workshops, roundtables, lectures and performances.
Osvaldo Golijov Visit Monday, November 7
Composer Osvaldo Golijov will be visiting the Lerner Center to talk about his work on Monday, November 7 at 11:00 AM in the third floor conference room. Golijov is a Penn alumni who studied under George Crumb, as well as Jay Reise and Richard Wernick, Professors Emeritus of Music, while pursuing his PhD in music composition. This talk is free and open to the public. Lerner Center 201 S. 34th Street, Room 312