Department of Music

Composer Matthew Schreibeis (PhD Penn) awarded Charles Ives Award

Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 1:36pm

from American Acad. of Arts and Letters - more here and www.mschreibeis.com
Grad. stud. Emma Barnaby live on WRTI

Sunday, March 18, 2018 - 9:30pm

on first book printed in North America - Tue 12:10pm https://goo.gl/WJ2xer
Symposium: Gothic Arts (3/23-24), with medieval music concert in Kislak (Fri. 7pm)

Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 8:21pm

More here on the symposium and here on the concert
Next Colloquium: Elaine Hayes (Tuesday, 3/20)

Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 8:18pm

on her new book on Sarah Vaughan
Alumna Brooke McCorkle (Ph.D. '15) co-authors book

Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 11:34am
Siel Agugliaro (Ph.D. candidate, Music History) awarded SAM dissertation fellowship

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 - 9:08am
Dr. Naomi Waltham-Smith has published an article

Friday, March 2, 2018 - 9:01am
Juan Castrillón's two new documentaries

Thursday, February 22, 2018 - 10:34pm

presented on February 27 at 5:15
Colloquia: Alejandro Madrid (Cornell, 2/13), Stewart Varner (Penn, 2/20)

Saturday, February 10, 2018 - 1:23pm

also: Prof. Ramsey's Provost Diversity Lecture on the 22nd! (more below)
Anna Weesner, Robert Weiss Professor of Music and Chair, awarded Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 8:58am

News

November 5, 2018

James Diaz Acosta, Ph.D. Candidate in Composition, awarded prize
October 29, 2018

Marian Anderson events featured in Penn Today

see here
October 15, 2018

Fri. Oct. 26: "Sound, Gender, Color Line" Symposium honoring Marian Anderson (1897-1993)

To honor the career of African American Philadelphia-born musician and cultural ambassador, Marian Anderson (1897-1993), the Kislak Center and the Departments of Music and Africana Studies have organized a one-day symposium to explore Anderson's musical career in the context of the intersection of sound studies and critical race theory.