On February 15 and 16, 2013, Duke University teamed up with local non-profit KidZNotes, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and the LA Philharmonic to host a 2-day southern regional development conference on the topic of supporting social change through music. "Take A Stand" is the national El Sistema initiative in leadership and teaching in the El Sistema movement in the United States. The 2-day conference included innovative sessions on Creativity and Improvisation as a Social Process for Student Engagement,… read more about "Take A Stand" Conference on Social Entrepreneurship »
"Shakespeare: Music’s Muse," performed in the Nelson Music Room on Feb. 8, 2013, presented some of the best-known songs based on Shakespeare's plays next to the texts that inspired them, including Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, and As You Like It. This performance was part concert and part theatrical reading, teaming up soprano Andrea Moore, pianist David Heid, and actors Molly Forlines and Steven Li. read more about Shakespeare: Music's Muse »
Ph.D. candidate Angela Mace talks about Fanny Hensel on the State of Things on WUNC; James Nyoraku Schlefer and Yoko Reikano Kimura perform and discuss Japanese music; pictures from the "Take a Stand" conference, the Jazz Ensemble with Tia Fuller, and Shakespeare: Music's Muse concert; and more. Read it here. read more about Duke Notes 2/20/2013 »
Soprano Andrea Moore, piano faculty David Heid, and Duke student actors present a concert of music and Shakespeare; the Duke Jazz Ensemble performs with saxophonist Tia Fuller; Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant appointed assistant professor of the practice; and more. Read it here. read more about Duke Notes 2/6/2013 »
Grants for Summer Study in the Arts: These grants support undergraduate or graduate students who show exceptional ability in the arts to undertake summer study at a nationally recognized arts program. The grant recipients are determined by a Duke arts program – Music, AAH&VS, Dance, Theater Studies, Arts of the Moving Image, Center for Documentary Studies, Creative Writing (English), and the Nasher Museum. Each program will be given $2500 to award to one or more students.… read more about Grant applications are being accepted for Summer Study in the Arts »
Music department participate in the "Take a Stand" conference; Raymond Knapp (Ph.D. in Musicology 1987) lectures on Broadway's mean streets; piano professor Randall Love participates in the Mallarmé Chamber Players HIP Festival; and more. Read it here. read more about Duke Notes 1/24/2013 »
Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop, in the Triangle for a performance with North Carolina Opera, conducted a master class in the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building on January 22, 2013. Four Duke students (Lauren DeLucia, Sarah Gordon, Michelle Lemani, and Ivy Zhou) and two UNC-Chapel Hill students (Kaswanna Kanyinda and Maria Palumbo) participated in the master class. Elizabeth Bishop has been praised by Opera News for her "gorgeous voice" and is in equal demand for both opera and… read more about Voice master class with mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop of the Metropolitan Opera »
Doctoral candidate David Kirkland Garner has been awarded First Prize in the RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition. The judges unanimously chose Garner's work, "Forward/Still," from a field of 422 entries. "Forward/Still" will be performed as part of the RED NOTE New Music Festival at Illinois State University on March 6th, 2013. read more about David Kirkland Garner wins the RED NOTE Composition Competition »
Lily Hirsch (Ph.D. 2006) has published her second book with the University of Michigan Press. Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (2012) is a "critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice." Calling Hirsch "one of the most subtle thinkers in musicology," Robert Fink of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music describes her book as "the first major intervention in what will soon be a thriving subfield of contemporary… read more about Lily Hirsch (Ph.D. 2006) publishes book on music in crime prevention »
Updates from the Baldwin Auditorium renovation; Lily Hirsch (Ph.D. 2006) publishes her second book, Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment; residency events with William Conable, including master classes and a recital; and more. Read it here. read more about Duke Notes 1/9/2013 »
Music 89S: Women in Music (ALP) WF 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM, Nomi Dave Examine the contribution and works of women musicians from various locations throughout the globe. Discussions will focus on a number of key international figures, such as Umm Kulthum (Egypt), Lady Gaga (US), Miriam Makeba (South Africa) and Lata Mangeshkar (India). We will also look at examples of contemporary female artists and the issues they face, such as the Russian group Pussy Riot and the K-Pop band Girl Generation. Topics to be covered… read more about Spring 2013 classes with openings »
Tuesday, January 15 5 pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building Alexander Technique Master Class for Vocalists with WILLIAM CONABLEThursday, January 17 7:30 pm, Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building Alexander Technique Master Class for Instrumentalists with WILLIAM CONABLE Tuesday, January 22 4:30 pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building Voice Master Class with ELIZABETH BISHOP… read more about Master Classes: Spring 2013 »
Friday, February 22, 8pm Ciompi Quartet and artists from Kyo-Shin-An Arts in “Kammerraku” – a program of music for string quartet and Japanese instruments. Yoko Reikan Kimura, koto; and James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi Works include Daron Hagen's Concerto for Koto and String Quartet (2011), Paul Moravec's Shakuhachi Quintet, Toro Takemitsu's A Way a Lone, and two pieces by James Nyoraku Schlefer. Kyo-Shin-An Arts is dedicated to the integration… read more about ENCOUNTERS, Spring 2013 »
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Music 553Music in the Baroque Era: Prima pratica and seconda pratica Mondays 3:05-5:35pm Professor Kerry McCarthy This seminar will explore the gradual and complex transition between the musical worlds we now call the Renaissance and the Baroque. The main thread of the class will be the eight books of madrigals published by Claudio Monteverdi between 1587 and 1638, but we will also consult a wide variety of other music (and a judicious selection of secondary sources). We will study counterpoint and… read more about Spring 2013 »