Tufts Music Events Calendar
Concerts are free unless noted in their description. Program information is subject to change.
For events that require tickets, please call the Granoff Music Center Box Office at 617.627.3679. Box Office window and phone hours are:
January 22 to May 8: Mondays – Fridays, 10:30 am to 5 pm
The box office is closed on all Massachusetts and Federal holidays.
For non-Tufts related inquiries regarding the rental of Granoff Music Center spaces, please call the Tufts University Conference Bureau at 617.627.3568.
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March 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008, 12 pm - 1:15 pm
Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series
Latin Lingo - Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Deborah Pacini Hernandez presents Latin Lingo: Locating Latinos, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US Popular Music Landscape. Free and open to the public. A light lunch is served after the event.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center
Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Composers: Works with Phil Acimovic
Tufts Composer Phil Acimovic presents works for small chamer ensembles, percussion, and other interesting combinations.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Composers: New Works with Oulianova
Master of Arts Thesis Concert
Tufts Composer and Master of Arts Candidate Iana Oulianova presents her thesis work for string quartet.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Friday, March 28, 2008, 8 pm
From Distler to Jordan and Back Again
Tufts/NEC Double Degree Recital
Students enrolled in the Tufts and New England Conservatory double-degree program present their second-ever cross program recital. The centerpiece of the performance will be a small ensemble of six students studying jazz at NEC, with special guest appearances by students in the voice, piano, percussion, and string programs. One of our most popular events of last semester, be sure to arrive early to get a good seat!
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 12 pm
Tishler Competition: Preliminary Round
Tufts/NEC Double Degree Recital
The annual Tufts Music Tishler competition preliminary round. Tufts students, please check back later in the semester for entry requirements and competition sign-up times.
THIS ROUND OF THE COMPETITION/EVENT IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Sunday, March 30, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
& The Boston Symphony Orchestra Community Concert Series
Works of Weir and Schubert - Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
For the second year, the Granoff Music Center is pleased to team up with the Boston Symphony Orchestra to present one of the BSO Community Chamber Concerts. Following the performance, a short reception with the musicians will be held in the Murnane Lobby.
For the BSO's information page on this performance, as well as background on the BSO Concert Series, please click here. This event is open to the public and the entire Tufts community.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
March 30th Program:
Weir – The Golden Branch
Schubert – Quintet in A for piano and strings, D. 667
Featured Boston Symphony Orchestra artists for this event will be:
Tatiana Dimitriades, violin
Rachel Fagerburg, viola
Owen Young, cello
Todd Seeber, bass
Jonathan Miller, cello
FREE tickets are required for this event. You must reserve the tickets in advance.
A limited amount of tickets remain for this event, so please call as soon as possible.
To request tickets, please call either:
The BSO SymphonyCharge at (617) 266-1200 or (888) 266-1200.
The Granoff Music Center Box Office at (617) 627-3679 during business hours.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Granoff Music Center extends its warmest thanks to The Lowell Institute for their generous support of these Community Chamber Concerts.
This event is open to the public and the entire Tufts community.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center |
Sunday, March 30, 2008, 7:30 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series EXTRA
AN
EVENING EVENT
Tishler Competition Finals
Come hear the final round of the Tufts Tishler Music Competition, a performance featuring some of Tufts University's most talented students. Classical and jazz musicians might be taking part. Join us for a popular Tufts competition that will crown one musician at Tufts winner.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Monday, March 31, 2008, 12 pm - 1:15 pm
Granoff Music Center Colloquium Series
Does Rhythm Trump Harmony - Joel LaRue Smith
Jazz Director Joel LaRue Smith presents Does Rhythm Trump Harmony: Latin American Rhythms and Jazz Harmonies in Classical Music. The presentation will include a discussion and performance of original compositions by Mr. Smith and Alberto Ginastera.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center
April 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Community Union Organization Event: Tufts Burlesque Ensemble
This Performance not presented by the Department of Music as is a TCU organization activity.
Tickets required.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Saturday, April 5, 2008, 1 pm
Piano Recital: Senior Juan Guzman
Open to the public. Free, no tickets required.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Saturday, April 5, 2008, 12:30 PM, 2 PM, 4:30 PM, 5:15 PM, 8 PM
MULTIPLE EVENTS
Intercollegiate Festival of African Music and Dance
Presented by Tufts Music and Drama/Dance
Professor David Locke and Kiniwe, Tufts University's African Music and Dance Ensemble, present their fifth annual intercollegiate festival of African Music and Dance. Guests include the African Music/Dance Ensemble from SUNY Binghamton and Alhaji Abubakari Lunna, and the Tufts Chorale. All events are open to the entire Tufts community and general public.
The festival schedule will include -
12:30 PM: COLLOQUIUM ON AGBADZA with David Locke, Andrew Clark, James Burns, and Rebecca Sacks.
VARIS LECTURE HALL, GRANOFF MUSIC CENTER (FREE)
2:00 PM: THREE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS featuring Dagomba dance/music with Kiniwe (Tufts), Ewe dance/music with SUNY Binghamton, singing traditions with the Tufts Chorale.
JACKSON DANCE LAB, AIDEKMAN ARTS CENTER (FREE)
4:30 PM: AFRICAN STREET FAIR featuring vendors, poster sessions, African products, and other fun an exciting stations throughout the three levels of the music center.
MURNANE LOBBY, GRANOFF MUSIC CENTER (FREE)
5:15 PM: AFRICAN DINNER/FOOD downstairs with the performers.
FISHER PERFORMANCE ROOM, GRANOFF MUSIC CENTER (TICKETS REQUIRED, SEE BELOW)
8:00 PM: GRAND PERFORMANCE WITH FEST PARTICIPANT GROUPS
DISTLER PERFORMANCE HALL, GRANOFF MUSIC CENTER (TICKETS REQUIRED, SEE BELOW)
Tickets are required for the evening performance/dinner only. All other events are free and do not require tickets.
Ticket prices are:
$5 for just the performance.
$8 for the performance and ticket to the African dinner.
Sorry, no tickets are available for just dinner.
Tickets ARE ON SALE NOW at the Granoff Box Office (617.627.3679). Visa and Mastercard accepted.
Sunday, April 6, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
The Tufts Percussion Ensemble
The Tufts Percussion Ensemble, one of Tufts University's newest ensembles will perform their end of semester performance under the direction of Robert Schulz.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Sunday, April 6, 2008, 7 pm
Senior Voice Recital: Joel Perez
Senior Joel Perez presents his final Tufts recital.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Fisher Performance Room, Granoff Music Center
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 8 pm
An Evening of Chamber Music
Tufts Musicians studying in the chamber music program present works for string quartet, piano trios, brass choir, and small wind ensembles by Beethoven, Schubert, Bartok, and Brahms. Program subject to change.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Friday, April 11, 2008, 8 pm
The Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir
Director David Coleman leads the 160-voice Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir in their spring performance. Get your tickets early as this is an event not to be missed.
Tickets Required (see below). Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Ticket Information
Tickets: $7 for everyone (adults, students, children, general public).
All seating is general admission.
Tickets for the Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir ARE ON SALE NOW at the Granoff Music Center Box Office. You may purchase your tickets in person at the box office window (using cash, check, Visa, Mastercard) or over the phone (using Visa or Mastercard only) during regular office hours.
Box Office window and phone hours are: Mondays – Fridays 10:30 am to 5 pm.
INAUGURAL SPECIAL EVENT
Saturday, April 12, 2008, 8 pm
Boston Area Young Men's Choral Festival
Hosted by Tufts University
The Boston Children's Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society, and Tufts Music present the inaugural Boston Area Young Men's Choral Festival on Saturday April 12th at the Granoff Music Center. Hosted by Tufts Music, this day-long event features demonstations, workshops, and social networking opportunities for singers and choral directors, and will be capped of by an evening festival concert at 8 pm.
Participating 2008 organizations in the festival and concert are: The Young Men of the Boston Arts Academy, Boston Children's Chorus Young Men's Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Young Men's Chorus, Men of the Tufts Choruses, S-Factor (a Tufts male a cappella group), Members of Boston City Singers, the NEC Youth Chorale, Treble Chorus of New England, and Boston's Trinity Church.
Please check back soon for a special festival link for more information on the rehearsal and workshop sessions of the festival during the day. The link will also have participation information. In the meantime, please email Andrew Clark for more information.
Performance information:
The spectacular grand performance will be from 7 pm to 8 pm in the Distler Performance Hall.
Free tickets are required for this performance. Family members of performers should reserve their tickets through their respected groups. All other tickets can be reserved now at the Granoff Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the public.
Sunday, April 13, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
A Tufts Music Triptych - The Tufts Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Singers
The Tufts Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Singers present music of the English choral tradition along with the graduate works of Phil Acimovic and Elliot Cless. Featured works include Britten's Cantata Misericordium and Triptych by Tarik O'Regan, paired along with a cappella classics by Byrd, Farrant, Tallis, and Stanford. The music department presents this performance as a celebration of the life of David Rawson (A'07). Gil Rose and Andrew Clark, conductors.
Works to be performed (subject to change, the following is not a program order):
Tufts Chamber Orchestra & Tufts Chamber Singers
Britten – Cantata Misericordium
O'Regan – Triptych
Tufts Chamber Singers
Byrd – Ave Verum Corpus
Farrant – Call to Rembrance
Stanford – Beati quorum via
Tallis – If Ye Love Me
Tufts Chamber Orchestra
Acimovic – Hammer and Cycle
Cless – To Be Announced
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Early Music Ensemble - Beg, Borrow or Adapt
Music based on pre-existing melodies for Renaissance consort of viols, lute, harp, recorders, voices, and harpsichord in a wide-ranging program of Romanescas by Frescobaldi, quodlibets from the German Renaissance, and other repertoire, EME will trace the melody "La Monica" from its origin as a 16th century Italian dance melody and folksong to its setting as a chorale by J.S. Bach. Directed by Jane Hershey
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Wind Ensemble - Dance, Dance, Dance!
Dance music and styles from around the world inspire the Wind Ensemble's spring program featuring Robert Russell Bennett's Suite of Old American Dances and the Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Friday, April 18, 2008, 8 pm
The Tufts Big Band Spring Concert
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.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Goddard Chapel, The Academic Quad, Tufts Medford Campus
Saturday, April 19, 2008, 3 pm
Senior Voice Recital: David Naden
Senior David Naden presents his final vocal recital of his Tufts tenure.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Fisher Performance Room, Granoff Music Center
Saturday, April 19, 2008, 8 pm - CONCERT MOVED TO APRIL 27
The Tufts and Boston Village Gamelan Ensembles
THIS CONCERT HAS MOVED TO APRIL 27, 2008, 8 PM
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Sunday, April 20, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
The Tufts Arabic Music Ensemble
Director Kareem Roustom leads Tufts Music's new Arabic Music Ensemble as they present classical and folk music from throughout the Arab Word.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Sunday, April 20, 2008, 6 pm & 8 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series EXTRA
The Applied Music Program - Students in Recital
Students studying in the Tufts Music applied program present music from their semester of study. Composers and works to be announced.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 8 pm
Music and Dance of Ghana with Kiniwe
Professor David Locke and Kiniwe, the Tufts African Dance and Music Ensemble, present an evening of Dagomba music and dance.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Jackson Dance Lab, Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford campus (next to Granoff)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 8 pm
The Tufts Small Jazz Ensembles
The Monday Night Jazz Ensemble and the Wednesday Night Jazz ensemble, directed by Paul Ahlstrand and Scott Aruda, present an evening of cool jazz music for small jazz ensembles and combos.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Fisher Performance Room, Granoff Music Center
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 8 pm
The Tufts Flute Ensemble
The talented members of the Tufts Flute Ensemble presented music for flute choir from a wide range of contemporary and classical traditions in their end of semester performance. Directed by Nina Barwell.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Friday, April 25, 2008, 8 pm
Electro-NME
Donald Berman and the Tufts New Music Ensemble (NME) team up with the brand new Tufts Electronic Music Ensemble, directed by Paul Lehrman, for their debut performance. Music by Berio, Bresnick, Babbitt, a commission by Tufts alumnae Tom Swafford, electro-acoustic improvisation and other new works with be featured.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Sunday, April 27, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
Junior Voice Recital: Julia Torgovitskaya
Junior Julia Torgovitskaya presents a junior voice recital to close out the semester.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall or Fisher Performance Room, Granoff Music Center
Sunday, April 27, 2008, 7 pm - NOTE NEW START TIME
The Tufts Chorale and Symphony Orchestra
Commemorating the 50th anniversay of the death of Ralph Vaugh Williams, the Tufts Symphony Orchestra and Chorale join forces to present his cantata Dona Nobis Pacem and the composer's The Wasps Overture. Also featured will be Tufts Concerto Competition champion, TBA, performing the second piano concerto of Camille Saint-Saëns. Andrew Clark and Gil Rose, conductors.
Please note: THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE EVENING. IT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED TO BEGIN AT 3 PM BUT WILL NOW BEGIN AT 7 PM.
Cohen Auditorium, Aidekman Arts Center
Please note this event will be in AIDEKMAN and not GRANOFF.
Ticket information:
Tickets for the Chorale and Orchestra performane will go on sale TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008 at 11 AM at the Granoff Music Center Box Office. You may purchase your tickets in person at the box office window (using cash, check, Visa, Mastercard) or over the phone (using Visa or Mastercard only) during regular open Box Office hours. Box Office window and phone hours are: Mondays – Fridays 10:30 am to 5 pm.
Tickets (all seating general admission):
Purchased in advance - $7 (tickets must be reserved by Friday, April 25, 2007 at 5 pm)
Purchased at the door - $10 (Cash or check only, no credit card payments)
The Box Office will be closed on April 14, 2008 for the Patriots Day holiday.
Sunday, April 27, 2008, 8 pm - NEW DATE
The Tufts and Boston Village Gamelan Ensembles
Experience music of Java with the Tufts Gamelan Ensemble and the Boston Gamelan directed by Barry Drummond with guest artists I.M. Harijito, current director of gamelan ensembles at Wesleyan, Brown, and the New York Indonesian Consulate.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Fisher Performance Room, Granoff Music Center
Monday, April 28, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Composers with Elliott Schwartz
Visiting Composer Elliott Schwartz presents a Tufts Composers extravaganza of new chamber works by Tufts undergraduate, graduate, and faculty composers.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Opera: From Berlin to Medford
From Berlin to Paris to Broadway and back again, Tufts Opera will traverse the songs of Kurt Weill's theatre music. In songs of despair, love, anger, disillisionment, and joy the members of Tufts Opera present songs, aris, and ensemble from Threepenny Opera, One Touch of Venus, Lady in the Dark, Street Scene, and more. Directed by Carol Mastrodomenico and Steven Morris.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Klezmer Orchestra
The Jumbo Knish Factory presents an evening of Modern Klezmer music. Starting with music from the 1950s big band sound of Sammy Musiker, the contemporary party spirit of the Klezmatics, to the experimental sounds of the Radical Jewish Music Movement, these ever evolving and sometimes controversial new sounds in klezmer music invigorate and stimulate more than just the ear, as they question what is tradition.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Fisher Performance Room, Granoff Music Center
May 2008
Saturday, May 3, 2008, 5 pm
Senior Flute Recital: Alyssa Tom
Senior Flutist Alyssa Tomm presents his final recital of her Tufts tenure.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
Sunday, May 4, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
Program - to Be Announced
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center
