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 8 to January 16: Mondays – Fridays, 12 pm to 4 pm
January 17 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.

 

January and February 2008

Saturday, January 26, 2008, 1 pm
Tufts Community Music Program Concert
Featuring chamber musicians and students who are studying in the fall semester community music program.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center


Sunday, January 27, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
Soprano Carol Mastrodomenico
Guitarist David Patterson
Featuring Songs of the Chinese by Benjamin Britten. With other works of Argento, Rodrigo, Leisner.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center


Monday, January 28, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm
Granoff Music Colloquium Series - Janet Schmalfeldt
Professor Janet Schmalfeldt, Associate Professor and Director of Theory Studies in the Tufts Department of Music presents the first music faculty colloquium of the semester entitled, "...sed non eodem modo: Chopin and the Ascending-Thirds Progression." 
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center



Saturday, February 2, 2008, 8 pm
The Providence String Quartet - Dvorak in America
Jesse Holstein, violin • Jessie Montgomery, violin
Sebastian Ruth, viola • Sara Stalnaker, cello
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center

Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet, Opus 96 & String Quintet, Opus 97
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
H. T. Burleigh: Works to be announced.
With Frank Ward, bass-baritone and Minna Choi, violin

As the quartet-in-residence for Community MusicWorks, the Providence String Quartet provides free after-school programming to youth in Providence’s most underserved neighborhoods. In tandem with their music education and mentoring activities, the Providence Quartet fills the role of the City's resident professional string quartet, performing throughout Providence and across New England. On February 2, the quartet will come to Tufts to present a concert featuring works of Dvorak.

Ticket Information
Tickets:
$10 for adults (including seniors)
$5 for students or with Tufts ID (faculty, staff)
All seating is general admission.

Tickets for the Providence String Quartet will go on sale TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 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. The Box Office will be closed from 12/21/07 to 1/7/08.

Box Office window and phone hours are:
January 8 to January 16: Mondays – Fridays 12 pm to 4 pm
January 17 to May 8: Mondays – Fridays 10:30 am to 5 pm

The Box Office will be closed on January 21, 2008 and February 18, 2008 due to university holidays.

FREE Pre-concert Panel on Community Music at 6 pm
A pre-concert panel on community music will be held prior to the concert. The time for this event is 6 pm to 7:30 pm. Panel program information will be updated shortly. The panel will be free, no tickets required, however the concert will require tickets. Panel patrons will be asked to present their tickets to ushers after the panel concludes but may keep their seats.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Sunday, February 3, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
John McDonald's The Creatures' Choir
Songs and Interludes for Voice and Piano
Come experience “Postcards from the zoo in bright, primary colors...” (Matthew Guerrieri, Boston Globe, from a review of the premiere on April 13, 2007 at Boston Conservatory) as Tufts Music presents John McDonald's The Creatures' Choir: Songs and Interludes for Voice and Piano. The work is based on poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, translated in English by Rumer Godden. With Guest Artist Jessica Bowers, mezzo soprano, and John McDonald, piano.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Sunday, February 10, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
Colors of the Afternoon: Hindustani Vocal Music
Featuring Warren Senders, vocals,
with Akshay Navaladi, tabla and George Ruckert, harmonium
Popular and rare afternoon ragas performed in the khyal, tarana and thumri styles of North India. Khyal singing is one of the world's great improvisational traditions, sometimes meditative, sometimes exhilarating, and always compelling and fascinating even for new listeners.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Monday, February 11, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm
Granoff Music Colloquium Series - Event 2
Presentation and Presenter to be announced. Light lunch served.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center



Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 3 pm
Master Class with Violinist Wonji Kim Ozim
Korean born Wonji Kim Ozim, currently Professor at the Music Academy in Salzburg, Austria, will present a masterclass with Tufts violinists on February 12th that is open to entire Tufts community and the public. This talented vilonist has trained in Europe under such names as Max Rostal and Igor Ozim, and brings fresh air of the European approach to true violin pedagogy. Please join us!
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 8 pm
A Valentine's Rhapsody
The Tufts Wind Ensemble
Bring your Valentine to this concert of chocolates and roses. Our program will include Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue featuring Jason Safer, piano, and Norman Dello Joio's Songs of Abelard.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Sunday, February 16, 2008, 1 pm
Community Children's Concert
The Tufts Chorale and Chamber Singers
Conducted by Andrew Clark
THIS EVENT IS TENTATIVE.
PLEASE CHECK BACK AFTER JANUARY 3, 2008.

Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center



Sunday, February 17, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
Beatles, Brahms, and Bernstein: A Choral Valentine
The Tufts Chorale and Tufts Chamber Singers, conducted by Andrew Clark, presents Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes, with faculty pianists Janet Schmalfeldt and John McDonald, classics from Bernstein's West Side Story, works of Sondheim, and unique arrangements of Beatle's hits. Conducted by Andrew Clark.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center


Please note: There will be NO Sundays @ Tufts concert on February 24, 2008 due to dress and technical rehearsals for our opera production of Dido and Aeneas in the Distler Performance Hall.



Monday, February 25, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm
Granoff Music Colloquium Series - Ellen T. Harris of MIT
Professor Ellen T. Harris of the MIT Department of Music presents “Henry Purcell’s  Dido and Aeneas." A special presentation in conjunction with the Opera Ensemble's performances of the work at the end of the week. Come learn about our the opera with Professor Harris and enjoy a free lunch after the colloquium.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Varis Lecture Hall, Granoff Music Center



Thursday, February 28, 2008 - Sunday, March 2, 2008 (Four performances!)
TUFTS MUSIC presents
DIDO AND AENEAS: An opera in three acts by Henry Purcell
Performed by TUFTS OPERA
Fully staged and produced in the Distler Performance Hall
Stage direction by Carol Mastrodomenico, Music direction by Steven Morris
Choral direction by Andrew Clark, Orchestra preparation by Gil Rose
Choreography by Ken Pierce, Stage Management by Johanna Thelin
Click here for a background on Dido and Aeneas from the BBC.

All four performances will take place in the
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center


Performance Dates and Ticket Information
Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 8 pm
Tufts Preview Performance
Tickets: $1 with Tufts ID (all seating is general admission),
$5 for general public (all seating is general admission)

Friday, February 29, 2008 at 8 pm
Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 8 pm
Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 3 pm
Tickets:
$10 for adults (this includes seniors; all seating reserved)
$7 with Tufts ID (faculty, staff, sudents; all seating reserved)
$7 for students (of any school or college; all seating reserved)

Tickets for the Opera performances will go on sale TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 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:
January 8 to January 16: Mondays – Fridays 12 pm to 4 pm
January 17 to May 8: Mondays – Fridays 10:30 am to 5 pm

The Box Office will be closed on January 21, 2008 and February 18, 2008 due to university holidays.

All four performances will take place in the
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center

Please note that the Sunday afternoon performance, while part of the Sunday Series, is not free and tickets are required. We thank you for your understanding.



Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 8 pm
Guest Artist Series: The Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble
The Songs of Sayyed Darweesh: Soul of a People.
Hicham Chami and the Chicago Classical Oriental Ensemble (CCOE) will bring the works of composer Sheikh Sayyed Darweesh (1892-1923) to life with a February and March American tour and album, The Songs of Sayyed Darweesh: Soul of a People. The CCOE will visit Tufts on March 4, 2008 for a special free performance. The ensemble, whose members come from all over the Arab world and average only twenty-seven years old, will span hemispheres and generations with their repertoire and performance, which includes the venerable vocalist Youssef Kassab, whom Chami calls, “one of the last great voices of the Orient.”

Musical director and ‘ud player (and Tufts graduate student) Kareem Roustom says, “It’s a rare thing in the U.S. for a younger generation of musicians to perform this really old music. It is part of both preserving our Arab tradition, art and culture, and sharing it.” We invite you to share it with us in March!
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center

Tickets are required for this performance, however there is no admission charge and the tickets are free. Please read below how you can reserve tickets in advance.

Free tickets for the CCOE performance (there is no ticket or admission charge, but audience patrons are required to have a ticket) will be made available to the Tufts community and general public beginning on TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2008 at 11 AM at the Granoff Music Center Box Office. To reserve tickets you may either call the Box Office during business hours, come to the Box Office during business hours, or you may email Tara Espiritu at tara.espiritu@tufts.edu the number of tickets you would like to reserve. Email requests must include a name for the tickets, quanitity, home address, and a phone number for the requestor. A response should be sent within 24-72 hours that your request was received, confirming your tickets. Email requests will not be taken after March 3, 2008 at 12 pm.

Box Office window and phone hours are:
January 8 to January 16: Mondays – Fridays 12 pm to 4 pm
January 17 to May 8: Mondays – Fridays 10:30 am to 5 pm

The Box Office will be closed on January 21, 2008 and February 18, 2008 due to university holidays.
Wednesday, March 5 at 8 PM, Distler Hall



Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Composers: Inbound with Cless
Master of Arts Thesis Concert I
Tufts Composers Elliot Cless presents and performs his new compositions along with works of fellow Tufts composers Acimovic, McDonald, and McLaughlin in this special thesis concert. The concert will include Cless's new work Inbound, a trio for saxophone, viola, and piano that depicts a fantastic journey through the realm that lies beneath the streets of Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston. Also featured will be a "to be titled" Passacaglia/Chaconne thesis work for chamber orchestra; a synthesis of, response, and addition to a repertoire employing a musical form that has transcended cultural and stylistic boundaries throughout its existence.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Friday, March 7, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Composers: Four Voices
Music of Master of Arts Candidates Concert
Innovative New Chamber Works by Tufts graduate composers Jean Y. Foo, Kota Nakamura, David Shaub Stallings, and Travis Worthley is presented.
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8 pm
The Tufts Symphony Orchestra
Spanish Send-Off Concert
Conductor Gil Rose and the Tufts Symphony Orchestra perform a farewell concert prior to their March Tour of Spain. Works to be announced. Ticket information to be announced.
Ticket information to be announced. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Sunday, March 9, 2008, 3 pm
Sundays @ Tufts: Community Concert Series
Celebrating American Music for Cello and Piano
Tufts Music Faculty cellist Emmanuel Feldman (pictured to the right) presents a concert with guest pianist Joy Cline- Phinney in works by Pulitzer prize winning composer George Walker and other works by George Gershwin, Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber. 
Free, no tickets or reservations required. Open to the public.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 8 pm
Tufts Composers: Hammer and Cycle with Acimovic
Master of Arts Thesis Concert II
Tufts Composer and Master of Arts Candidate Philip Acimovic presents his thesis work Hammer and Cycle for chamber orchestra, along with other original works including Forsaken Melody for string trio and The Drive to Run for percussion duo.
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 III
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



Saturday, March 15, 2008 - Sunday, March 23, 2008
The Tufts Symphony Orchestra Spanish Tour
Tour performances and locations will be listed on this website as the semester progresses. If you are in Spain in March and would like to come hear Gil Rose and the TSO perform, please check back here for concert information.



Calendar Note: Tufts University Spring Break
Spring break at Tufts is March 24 - March 28 and classes resume March 31, 2008. The Granoff Music Center will be open during this time. Check back for hours for the center's office and practice rooms for on campus students. There are no concerts scheduled during this period.



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



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. Check back for information later in the semester on this event.
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center



Saturday, April 5, 2008, 8 pm
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. Guest African Music and Dance Ensemble from other New England and Northeast University's will join Kiniwe for a celebration of African culture. Guest artists and participating ensembles to be announced at a later date.

All festival events are free and opened to the public. Please check back for further information about the performers, events, and ticket information as the semester progresses.

The event will include:
-Interactive workshops with the collegiate groups and public from 12 pm to 4 pm in the Jackson Dance Lab.
-An African Indoor Street Fair and Dinner with vendors and guests in the halls of Granoff.
-An evening performance with all of the day's participating artists and groups in Distler>

Tickets will be required for the evening performance only. All other events are free. Ticket information will be posted shortly.



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 or Distler Performance Hall, 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 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 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.
Tickets will be required. Please check back for furhter information.



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 thesis 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




Wednesday, 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
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.
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 at Tufts: Community Concert Series
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: Tickets ARE required. Open to the public.
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.

Please note that this performance, while part of the Sunday Series, is not a free event and tickets are required. We thank you for your understanding.




Sunday, April 27, 2008, 8 pm
Junior Voice Recital: Julia Torgovitskaya
Junior David Naden 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




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 Opera: From Berlin to Medford
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




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