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Luise E. Peake Music & Culture Colloquium Series

Spring 2018

All Luise E. Peake Music & Culture Colloquium events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. A reception for students follows each event.

comps workshop

Workshop/Q&A: "Preparing for Graduate Music Comprehensive Exams"

Friday, January 26, 1:10–2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232
Hosted by Music History & Ethnomusicology and Music Theory Faculty, and Graduate Studies Staff
 Sebastian Ivy

"Listening against the Frequency: Sonic Perception and Public Space"

Graduate Student Showcase - Sebastian Ivy, University of South Carolina
Friday, February 16, 1:10-2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232
Co-presented with Composition & Rhetoric, Department of English Language and Literature

 Tim Page

Tim Page, University of Southern California, Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

"Writing About Music in the 21st Century"

Saturday, March 3, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
School of Music Recital Hall
Presented in conjunction with the Public Music Discourses Conference.
Co-sponsored by Music Theory & Composition, the American Musicological Society-Southeast Chapter, and the Society for Music Theory-Southeast

 Gerald Gurss

Gerald Gurss, University of South Carolina

"Translucent Voices: Creating a Trans-Inclusive Chorus"

Graduate Music Student Showcase
Friday, March 23, 1:10–2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232

 Alison Mero

Alison Mero, Clemson University

"John Hullah and Charles Dickens's 'Decidedly English' Opera: The Critical Response to The Village Coquettes"

Friday, April 6, 1:10–2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232

 Gregory Barnett  

Gregory Barnett, Rice University

"Defenders of the Faith: Catholic Ideology and Eighteenth-Century Italian Music Theory"

Friday, April 13, 1:10–2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232
Co-sponsored by Music Theory

 Sounding Genitlity  

Candace Bailey, North Carolina Central University

"Sounding Gentility: Music and Social Mobility in the Antebellum South"

Friday, April 27, 1:10-2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Southern Studies

 

Fall 2017

All Luise E. Peake Music & Culture Colloquium events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. A reception for students follows each event.

Adam Knight Gilbert

Adam Knight Gilbert, University of Southern California

Lecture/Workshop: “Singing and Playing on Early Wind Instruments”  

Bring your instruments!

Friday, September 8, 1:10–2:00 p.m.
School of Music Recital Hall

Recorder Workshop

Workshop: “A Recorder Workshop with Adam Gilbert: Henricus Isaac and Music Symbolism”

Saturday, September 9, 2:00–5:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 006

Co-Sponsored by the ARS Columbia Recorder Collective

Natalie Zelensky

Natalie K. Zelensky, Colby College

“New York's White Russians: Music, Nostalgia, and Imperial Russia in the American Imaginary”

Friday, September 22, 1:10-2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232

Dunes Film Screening

Film Screening: Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Thursday, October 5, 7:30 p.m.
School of Music Recital Hall

Yayol Uno Everett

Yayoi Uno Everett, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Surrealism in Image and Sound: Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kōbō”

Friday, October 6, 1:10-2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232

Co-Sponsored by the Walker Institute for International and Area Studies

Bonnie Jones

Bonnie Jones, Baltimore, MD

“A Curious Listener: Electronic Music, Artistic Process, and Community Work”

Friday, November 3, 1:10–2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232

Co-Sponsored by the South Carolina Honors College

Experimental Workshop Concert

Concert: Infinite Room presents Bonnie Jones and the USC Experimental Music Workshop, directed by Greg Stuart

Friday, November 3, 8:00 p.m.
Tapp’s Arts Center (1644 Main Street)
$8/$5 students

Katherine Baber

Katherine Baber, University of Redlands

“‘All the World's a Stage’: Performing the Universal at International Festivals during the Cold War”

Friday, November 17, 1:10–2:00 p.m.
School of Music Room 232

Co-Sponsored by Music Theory and Composition

Courtney Bryan

Courtney Bryan, Tulane University

“Inspiration, Improvisation, and Art Activism in the Compositions of Courtney Bryan”

Friday, December 8, 1:10–2:00 p.m.
School of Music Recital Hall

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Southern African American Music, African American Studies Program, and Women and Gender Studies Program


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