AXIS: 24
a marathon of music
friday, april 18th, from dawn till dawn
created and directed by Phil Acimovic and Elliot Cless
sponsored by Tufts Music

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (all free, all on Tufts campus):

4:30-5:30am        
AXIS: dawn
tisch library roof
watching the sunrise and celebrating the arrival of the day with quiet acoustic music

6:00-7:15am        
AXIS: soundtrack
distler hall, granoff music center
old films, new music—short black & white films with live musical accompaniments

7:30-9:00am        
Gamelan at AOH
murnane lobby, granoff music center
players from the Tufts Gamelan Ensemble and Boston Village Gamelan gather to play Javanese Court Gamelan music during the opening reception for Tufts Admissions’ “April Open House”

9:30-10:00am        
AXIS: fastbreak      
distler hall, granoff music center
a short and snappy concert that’s nutritious
and delicious; part of a balanced breakfast

10:30-11:30am        
Musical Presentation at the Eliot-Pearson
Children’s School

12:00-1:30pm        
High Noon @ Hotung
hotung café, tufts campus center
where no sandwich is safe; featuring members
of the Tufts Klezmer Ensemble, and “Jeff Latz & the Jaywalkers”

2:00-4:00pm        
AXIS: open air
tisch library roof
the Tufts New Music Ensemble (NME)  constructs and performs improvisations based on the landscape around them, followed by a performance of Frederic Rzewski’s “Les moutons de panurge”

4:30-6:00pm        
AXIS: afternoon delight
granoff music center
ever want to be loud in a library? fun and
interactive sound explorations of various
architectural spaces in the music building

6:30-7:30pm        
Russian Vocal Recital        
distler hall, granoff music center
Julia Torgovitskaya presents a recital of
Russian vocal music

8:00-10:00pm        
Big Band Spring Concert
goddard chapel
Joel LaRue Smith and the Tufts Big Band present an evening of Afro-Cuban and American contemporary and classic jazz works that will get your pulse pounding.

10:30pm-4:30am             
AXIS: nocturalis
distler hall, granoff music center
mysterious, intimate, glimmering: music of the night

10:30pm           
Evening Haze
the AXIS feature performance           

Midnight:            
“In C”                       
Terry Riley’s kaleidoscopic, trance inducing masterpiece

1:30am           
41 minutes and 26 seconds of John Cage
a tribute to the father of the prepared piano and chance music

2:30am           
Plugged In
staying up all night playing video games, but
this time with live music and a giant screen

4:30-5:30am        
AXIS: second dawn

tisch library roof
a reprise of the previous day’s dawn concert