Tufts Music and the Granoff Music Center
Winter/Spring 2010 Events Calendar
All concerts are FREE unless noted in their descriptions below.
For events that require tickets, please call the Granoff Music Center Box Office at 617.627.3679. Box Office window and phone hours are Mondays - Fridays, 10:15 am to 5 pm.
Program information is subject to change.
Click here for a PDF of the current Winter/Spring 2009 Events Calendar
For non-Tufts related inquiries regarding the rental of Granoff Music Center spaces, please call the Tufts University Conference Bureau at 617.627.3568.
JANUARY 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Music of the Armenians in America
New England is home to a large and culturally vibrant
Armenian community. This concert presents a program
celebrating the beauty, depth, and virtuosity of a great,
local, living tradition. A pre-concert panel talk at 2 p.m.
will provide background on the music, instrumentation,
and musicians.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, January 31, 2010, 3 pm
An Afternoon of Song in Grafton
Tufts Performance Faculty members Andrea Ehrenreich,
soprano, and Edith Auner, pianist, perform a concert to
inaugurate the newly acquired Yamaha piano at the Tufts
Veterinary School campus.
Tufts Veterinary School, Grafton, MA. No tickets required.
FEBRUARY 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 8 pm
Songs You Should Know:
Music That Still Matters
The social and political movements that framed the 1960s
produced, and in turn were shaped by, music. Incorporating
personal and historical commentary, this concert will draw
from the socially conscious songs of the era. Performed and
hosted by Jeffrey Summit and Paul Lehrman on guitars,
piano, and vocals, along with students and faculty guest
instrumentalists and singers.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1 pm
Saturday Family and Children’s Concert Series
Fun with Your Voice!
Join Essence, Anchord, and other
Tufts a cappella groups as they
present an afternoon of songs for
children and their families. Sing
along, learn to sound like a drum
or guitar just using your voice or
body, and learn new dance moves!Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, February 7, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Hisako and Friends
Join Monica Pegis, violin; Andrew Eng, violin; KazukoMatsusaka, viola; David Fisher, cello; Sammy Fisher, bass; and
Tufts Performance Faculty member Hisako Hiratsuka, piano;
for an afternoon of music for piano quintet including Trout by
Schubert and Opus 44 by Schumann.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Monday, February 8, 2010, 12 pm
Colloquium: Stephan Pennington
Recapturing the Banjo: The New Great Migration and The Radical Imagination. Varis Lecture Hall (M155). Free. No tickets required.
Monday, February 8, 2010, 7 pm **new event**
Ulali
Ulali is the first Native women's group to create their own sound from strong traditional roots and personal contemporary styles. Comprised of three members from various indigenous backgrounds, this group has performed for fifteen years in eleven different countries. This event is sponsored by the Tufts Arts and Sciences Diversity Fund, Toupin Bolwell Fund in the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Study, and the American Studies Department.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 12:15pm **new listing**
Quarter Past Noon Music: Sarita Uranovsky, violin & Hisako Hiratsuka, piano
Join Tufts Music Performance Faculty members for informal recitals of various works.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, February 14, 2010, 1pm
To Haiti with Love: A Benefit Concert from Tufts
Please join Tufts students, faculty, staff, and members of the community in a fun and diverse concert of music from around the world to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. Performers will include student soloists, bands, a cappella groups, faculty members from the Department of Music, and special guests. Cohen Auditorium. Tickets $10 (children under twelve $5).
Sunday, February 14, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Mozart, Prokofiev, & Beethoven
Performance Faculty violinist Sarita Uranovsky will be
joined by pianist Hisako Hiratsuka to perform a Valentine’s
Day recital, to include Prokofiev’s stormy F minor Sonata and
Beethoven’s Romance in F major. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, February 21, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Music for Two Pianos
Members of the piano faculty at Tufts perform
music by Brahms, Mozart, and Rachmaninoff.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Friday, February 26, 2010, 12 pm
TCFN Concert No. 1
Tune in to TCFN - the third season of the Tufts Composers
Friday Noon Series. Works by Nicholas Hellberg, Andrew Rusli,
John McDonald, and others. With guest artist Michelle Kelley,
pianist.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 1 pm
Saturday Family and Children’s Concert Series
Tufts Symphony Orchestra
The Tufts Symphony Orchestra invites elementary school-aged
children and their families to a concert of fun and exciting
orchestral music. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, February 28, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
An Afternoon of Chamber Music
Tufts student chamber musicians present works by Mendelssohn,
Françaix, and more, including music for piano trio and for TUSQ,
the Tufts University Saxophone Quartet.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
MARCH 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 8 pm
Guilty Pleasures: Cheesy Tunes
We All Love (To Hate!)
Wind Ensemble explores the joys of Disney tunes, “light classical”
and pop ballads. Come join us for the music and some excellent
cheese and crackers during the break.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Beth Bahia Cohen: The Art of the Bow
Performance Faculty member Beth Bahia Cohen will be joined by
Mac Ritchey and Todd Roach for an exploration of how the violin
is played in traditional music from Turkey, Greece, the Middle
East, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, featuring the violin, Greek
lyras, Turkish bowed tanbur and kabak kemane, Egyptian rababa,
and more. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:15pm **new listing**
Quarter Past Noon Music: Andrea Ehrenreich, soprano & David Patterson, guitar
Join Tufts Music Performance Faculty members for informal recitals of various works.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 8 pm
Tishler Competition Finals
Tufts students compete for the Tishler Music Award. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 8 pm
Favorites: Tufts’ Choruses by Request
The best-loved choral music from five centuries
selected by Tufts students! Featuring works by
Whitacre, Gershwin, Palestrina, Victoria, Fauré,
Elgar, Berlioz, and a bicentennial celebration of
Robert Schumann’s birth. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Friday, March 12, 2010, 12 pm
Colloquium: Aniruddh Patel, Neurosciences Institute
Empirical studie sof music-language relations, rhythm, and syntax. Varis Lecture Hall (M155). Free. No tickets required.
Friday, March 12, 2010, 8 pm
Tufts Symphony Orchestra
Gil Rose leads the TSO in their spring performance, featuring Concerto
Competition winner soprano Rebecca Baumwoll. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8 pm
Tufts/NEC Dual Degree Recital
Students studying in the Tufts and New England Conservatory
Dual Degree program present a concert of classical and jazz works
for a variety of instruments. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
TUFTS COMPOSERS NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL - March 14-19, 2010 - Distler Performance Hall
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 3 pm
A Little Afternoon Music.
New Works for instrumental octet (winds, strings, harp, and celesta) inspired by Luigi Dallapiccola’s Piccola Musica Notturna (A Little Night Music). Featuring guest composer/conductor Peyman Farzinpour leading his own work, the premiere of guest composer Armand Qualliotine’s Solo Et Pensoso for soprano and ensemble, and works by Tufts composers John McDonald, David Molk, and Justin Tierney.Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 8 pm
NME Meets Perocco and Gee
Guest composers Filippo Perocco (Italy, in Boston on a Fulbright scholarship) and Erin Gee (American trained in Vienna, 2009-2010 Radcliffe Institute Fellow) present their new works including improvisation, created in collaboration with the Tufts New Music Ensemble. Also featuring new works by Tufts undergraduate and graduate composers.Thursday, March 18, 2010, 8 pm
CADENZA!
Clarinetist Ray Jackendoff, guest artist, performs guest composer Yehudi Wyner’s Cadenza! (1969) with John McDonald, piano. Also featuring Jackendoff in a virtuoso solo work entitled Sonata Surrealissima by Romanian composer Dan Dediu, alongside bravura solo ventures for various instruments by Tufts composers.Friday, March 19, 2010, 12 pm
TCFN Concert No. 2.
John McDonald, composer/ pianist, performs the “pulsoptional piano book,” seven works by a consortium of composers composed in honor of McDonald’s 50th birthday, plus solo works by McDonald and Hale Smith (1925-2009).
All concerts are free and open to the general public.
APRIL 2010
AKLAFF RESIDENCY - April 6-8, 2010
World renowned jazz drummer
Pheeroan akLaff visits Tufts for a
three day residency on Jazz music. All events are free and open to the general public.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 6:45-10:00 pm
Masterclass in Rhythmic Adaptation
AkLaff presents a masterclass in jazz drumming and rhythm section interplay. With an overview of the one hundred years that the American drum set has been utilized in ensemble music, we will explore audio examples and rehearsal techniques used to develop musicianship, and clarity within its lexicon of terminology. Fisher Performance Room.Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 12-1:30 pm
Breakout Groups from Masterclass in Rhythmic Adaptation
Breakout sessions are available for any performers that would like to experiment with mini groups, duos, trios, or quartets for spontaneous application of the concepts discussed from the masterclass the
previous day. Fisher Performance Room.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
4:30-6:30 pm • Breakout groups & Tufts Jazz Orchestra performance
The newly formed breakout groups and the Tufts Jazz Orchestra present an afternoon performance of jazz music. Fisher Performance Room.
8 pm • Aklaff Ensemble Concert
A performance featuring material from the Pheeroan akLaff Global Mantras CD and new works not yet recorded. Though they utilize Jazz and International music palates, each of these pieces stand alone with structures amenable to the players’ imagination. Distler Performance Hall.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 8 pm
Tufts Composers Graduate Showcase
A performance of new chamber works by music composition
graduate students Francisco Ferro, Livia Lin, David Molk,
Justin Tierney, and Roberto Toscano. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Russian Festival of Music
An exciting combination of Russian classical and traditional/folk
music performed by musicians from the area as well as our very own
Tufts students! The Festival is to be followed by a reception at the
Russian House (101 Talbot Avenue). Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Monday, April 12, 2010, 12 pm
Colloquium: Kiri Miller, Brown University
Why Don't You Pick Up a Real Guitar? Virtual Performance and Its Discontents. Varis Lecture Hall (M155). Free. No tickets required.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 8 pm
Tufts Chamber Music
Student chamber musicians present works for strings, winds,
brass, and piano, featuring music from the 17th century to the
present. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Wed., April 14 & Fri., April 16, 2010, 8 pm
Small Jazz Ensembles
Three of Tufts University’s small
jazz combos (Scott Aruda, Paul
Ahlstrand, & Nando Michelin,
directors) are joined by studentrun
ensemble The Zach Amdurer
Quartet for two evenings of jazz.
Fisher Performance Room. Free. No tickets required.
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 8 pm
Brahms - Beethoven - Corigliano
Conductors Andrew Clark and Gil Rose lead the Tufts Symphony
Orchestra, Concert Choir, and Chamber Singers in a performance of
Beethoven’s Mass in C, op. 86, the Brahms Academic Festival Overture,
and Fern Hill by John Corigliano. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Saturday, April 17, 2010, 8 pm
Klenèngan Nyamleng
The Boston Village Gamelan and the Tufts gamelan ensemble,
Rinengga Sih Tentrem, perform an evening of Javanese gamelan
music under the direction of Barry Drummond with guest artists
including I.M. Harjito. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, April 18, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Pairings: Tufts Wind Ensemble
Traditional 18th and 19th century harmonie band movements,
marches, and early full band pieces are paired with more recent
compositions in our look at continuity and innovation in wind
band literature. Composers include Mozart, Gabrieli, Ives, and
Brant. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Monday, April 19, 2010, 8 pm
“Shining Star”
Two of the Tufts small jazz ensembles (Joel LaRue Smith & Nando Michelin, directors) perform the music of Earth, Wind,
and Fire, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, and Latin jazz composers.
Fisher Performance Room. Free. No tickets required.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 8 pm
Early Music Miscellany
The Early Music Ensemble will explore their recent and ongoing gifts
from the London Early Music Shop, with six part viol consorts by
Orlando Gibbons, Italian ricercare for recorder consort and organ,
early Baroque sonatas, 16th century dance music with percussion,
complemented by vocal solos and dance songs accompanied by lute,
harp, and harpsichord. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Wednesday, February 21, 2010, 12:15pm **new listing**
Quarter Past Noon Music: Scott Woolweaver, viola
Join Tufts Music Performance Faculty members for informal recitals of various works.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 6 & 8 pm
Applied Student Recitals
Students studying in the Tufts Applied Music program present solo
and accompanied works from their semester of study. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 8 pm
Kiniwe with Nani Agbeli
Nani Agbeli leads Kiniwe, the Tufts African Music and Dance
Ensemble, in a high-energy performance of traditional and
contemporary material from Ghana, featuring Baamaaya
(Dagomba people from the Northern Region), Kpanlogo (Gã
people from Great Accra Region), and Atsia (Ewe people from
the Volta Region). Co-sponsored by the Tufts Dance Program.
Jackson Dance Lab, Aidekman Arts Center. Free. No tickets required.
Friday, April 23, 2010, 8 pm
Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir
Join the 220-voice Gospel Choir as they present their spring concert.
Tickets are $7 and are on sale at the Granoff Music Center Box
Office (617.627.3679). Cohen Auditorium, Aidekman Arts Center.
Saturday, April 23, 2010, 8pm
The Bowed Piano Ensemble and Victoria Hansen perform the music of Stephen Scott
The Bowed Piano Ensemble, founded by Stephen Scott at Colorado
College in 1977, is a group of ten musicians exploring the leading edge of
extended piano techniques with one grand piano, conjuring an orchestral
array of timbres, textures, and polyrhythms. In performing Stephen
Scott’s compositions, the players produce long, singing lines, sustained
drones, chugging accordion-like figures, crisp staccato tones reminiscent
of clarinets, deep drum tones, and more–often simultaneously–to create
a rich, contrapuntal chamber music tapestry.
This evening’s program will include Part One of the ensemble’s CD, Vikings
of the Sunrise, and excerpts from the song cycle fantasy Paisajes Audibles,
featuring soprano soloist Victoria Hansen.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, April 25, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Advanced Chamber Ensemble
Come to see the debut performance of the Tufts Advanced
Chamber Ensemble, featuring music from the 17th century to
the present. Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Tuesday, April 27 & Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 8 pm
Magic Flute “Abridged”
Come enter the fantastical world of
Mozart’s Magic Flute with Tufts Opera in
this shortened and narrated version.
Entertaining for both kids and adults.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 8 pm
Danzón for My Father
Join the Tufts Jazz Orchestra in a concert honoring the fathers of Jazz
and Afro Cuban Jazz music that paved the way for invention and
innovations in improvisation. Music by Oscar Hernandez, Count
Basie, Frank Foster, Jose Martin, and many more. Goddard Chapel. Free. No tickets required.
Friday, April 30, 2010, 8 pm
STOP LISTENING:
The New Music Ensemble presents its “Fifth Physical”
Arresting New Music both improvised and composed,
featuring works by Joseph Maneri, Filippo Perocco, as well as
by ensemble members. Co-directed by Donald Berman and
John McDonald.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
MAY 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010, 3 pm
Sundays at Tufts -
Community Concert Series
Arabic Ensemble
Tufts Takht, the Arabic Music Ensemble,
will perform vocal and instrumental
music from the Near East.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Monday, May 3, 2010, 8 pm
Music for Flute Ensemble
The Tufts Flute Ensemble presents a concert of music for flute
choir from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 8 pm
Tufts Composers Spring Finale -
Undergraduate Composer Showcase
Join the the undergraduate Tufts Composers as they present
their final performance of the semester. Works by Joshua
Hahn, Nicholas Hellberg, Alexander Lyon, Sid Richardson, and
others.
Distler Performance Hall. Free. No tickets required.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 8 pm
Tufts Jumbo Knish Factory
Klezmer is alive and well at Tufts and bringing back its year
end dance party. Horas, Shers, and old Israeli dances are on the
menu for the evening. Surprise guests and a dance instructor
to make sure you don’t get trampled in the Hora! No seat belts
allowed.
Granoff Family Hillel Center. Free. No tickets required.
Sunday, May 16, 2010, 3 pm
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Youth Symphony
Orchestras present a free
concert with performances
by The Young People’s String
Orchestra (Marta Zurad,
conductor) and the Preparatory
Winds (Janet Underhill,
conductor). Distler Performance Hall. This event is free, but requires free tickets that can be
reserved in advance, as seating is limited. Tickets may be reserved by
calling the Music Box Office at 617.627.3679 beginning February 1.
STUDENT RECITALS
March 7, 2010
7 pm · Jared Trudeau ('11), tenor
March 14, 2010
7 pm · Andrew Squier ('11)
April 3, 2010
5 pm · Katherine Runes ('10), soprano
8 pm · Carolyn Berliner ('11), voice
April 10, 2010
3:30 pm · Gabrielle Levy ('10), voice
April 17, 2010
1 pm · Samantha Tempchin ('10), voice
April 23, 2010
8 pm · Julia Gmeiner ('10), soprano
May 2, 2010
7 pm · Katherine Houstle ('10), oboe
May 8, 2010
1 pm · Alissa Nigro ('10), alto
5 pm · Rebecca Baumwoll ('10), soprano
8 pm · Melissa Backstrom ('10), mezzo
May 9, 2010
1 pm · Erik Hyman ('10), french horn
5 pm · Alex Green ('10), tenor
8 pm · Tara Vaughan ('10)
May 15, 2010
8 pm · Robyn Goodner ('10), soprano
May 21, 2010
8 pm · Jenna Reece ('10), voice
May 22, 2010 • 12 pm • Distler Performance Hall
Class of 2010 Graduation Recital
GRANOFF MUSIC CENTER COLLOQUIA SERIES
Join us for any of our (free music colloquia offered by distinguished music scholars from all over the country. The colloquia are offered in the Varis Lecture Hall (Room 155) of the Granoff Music Center.
Monday, February 8, 12PM – Stephan Pennington, Tufts University
Recapturing the Banjo: The New Great Migration and The Radical Imagination
Friday, March 12, 12PM - Aniruddh Patel, Neurosciences Institute
Empirical studie sof music-language relations, rhythm, and syntax
Monday, April 12, 12PM - Kiri Miller, Brown University
Why Don't You Pick Up a Real Guitar? Virtual Performance and Its Discontents
