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Family Meal – Soundtrack to Creativity: Refiguring American Music Authors

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Listen to the music and insights that have Listen to the music and insights that have carried Shana Redmond, Maureen Mahon, Anthony Reed and Eric Weisbard’s writing their books—Everything Man, Black Diamond Queens, Soundworks, and Songbooks—and reflect on the music that has done the same for you. This event features authors from the Duke University Press’s Refiguring American Music book series, co-edited by Ronald Radano, Josh Kun, and Nina Eidsheim. carried Shana Redmond, Maureen Mahon, Anthony Reed and Eric Weisbard’s writing their books—Everything Man, Black Diamond Queens, Soundworks, and Songbooks—and reflect on the music that has done the same for you.

Alumni Networking Night

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All alumni of the Herb Alpert School of Music are invited to join this virtual networking night. This is an opportunity to meet and connect with your fellow Bruins. The event will begin with a group session followed by breakout sessions on diverse topics including music industry, navigating academia, and performance.

Music Performance Studies Today: “21st-Century Pianism: Retrospection, New Directions, and Interpretative Communities” Part 2: Lecture Presentations & Discussion

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Panelists explore: How a pianist might navigate various “interpretative communities” of the core repertory when dealing with varying politics of taste? How might a pianist listen to and theorize about past recordings to reinvigorate today’s performance approaches? What are ways a pianist might introduce compositional changes to existing works to reboot the core performing repertory?

Music Performance Studies Today: “The Ephemerality of Musical Hearing”

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Given the ephemerality of performance, what are key issues behind the transmission of musical remembrance? How can we narrow the divide between what Diana Taylor calls the “archive” of enduring materials, such as texts, documents, and buildings, and the “more ephemeral ‘repertoire’ of embodied practice/knowledge,” such as “spoken language, dance, sports, ritual” and, we add, music performance?

Masterclass with Clarinetist Nicolas Baldeyrou

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Principal Clarinetist of The Philharmonique de Radio France and YouTube sensation Nicolas Baldeyrou will give us a firsthand glimpse into his brilliant technique and musicianship and share some insights into how he creates his extraordinary videos on YouTube. 

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