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.
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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 |
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"Listening against the Frequency: Sonic Perception and Public Space"Graduate Student Showcase - Sebastian Ivy, University of South Carolina |
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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. |
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Gerald Gurss, University of South Carolina "Translucent Voices: Creating a Trans-Inclusive Chorus"Graduate Music Student Showcase |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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.
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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. |
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Workshop: “A Recorder Workshop with Adam Gilbert: Henricus Isaac and Music Symbolism”Saturday, September 9, 2:00–5:00 p.m. Co-Sponsored by the ARS Columbia Recorder Collective |
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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. |
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Film Screening: Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes (1964)Thursday, October 5, 7:30 p.m. |
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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. Co-Sponsored by the Walker Institute for International and Area Studies |
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Bonnie Jones, Baltimore, MD “A Curious Listener: Electronic Music, Artistic Process, and Community Work”Friday, November 3, 1:10–2:00 p.m. Co-Sponsored by the South Carolina Honors College |
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Concert: Infinite Room presents Bonnie Jones and the USC Experimental Music Workshop, directed by Greg StuartFriday, November 3, 8:00 p.m. |
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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. Co-Sponsored by Music Theory and Composition |
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Courtney Bryan, Tulane University “Inspiration, Improvisation, and Art Activism in the Compositions of Courtney Bryan”Friday, December 8, 1:10–2:00 p.m. Co-Sponsored by the Center for Southern African American Music, African American Studies
Program, and Women and Gender Studies Program |