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The H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in
American Music
Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College
In collaboration with the
Conservatory of Music, the Department of Africana Studies and the American Studies Program at Brooklyn College present:
Spring
2009
Music in Polycultural America
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Lecture/Recital Honoring the Centennial of
Composer Elie Siegmeister
Soprano Helene Williams co-founded The Bronx Opera and has performed in all genres across
Europe, North America, latin America, Israel,
and Australia. Composer/pianist Leonard Lehrman
studied with Siegmeister and is co-author of Elie Siegmeister: A
Bio-Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2009). Together Williams and Lehrman
have recorded Centennial Concert CDs honoring Abel Meeropol, Marc
Blitzstein, and Elie Siegmeister.
Tuesday, 17 February, 12:30 pm, Levenson Recital Hall
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Sounds of the Sweat Shop: Pauline Oliveros
and the Soundtrack to Maquilapolis
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton is an Assistant Professor of Music at Brooklyn College, specializing in
20th-century American women composers. Her presentation will focus on Oliveros’s music for the 2006 film Maquilapolis
by Vicki Funari and Sergio De La Torre, which chronicles the extraordinary
results of activism by two female factory workers, or maquilas, in Tijuana.
Jensen-Moulton argues that the Deep Listening compositional technique
Oliveros applies to Maquilapolis renders her musical contributions
as politically relevant as the documentary itself.
Tuesday, 31 March, 11 am, Occidental Lounge,
Brooklyn College Student
Center
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Celebrating Jazz in Brooklyn:
A Symposium and Performance with Randy
Weston and Robin D. G. Kelley
As part of the Brooklyn Jazz Consortium’s
10th Annual Jazz Festival, Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of American
Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University
of Southern California, will
deliver a talk on Brooklyn jazz, and interview world-renowned pianist Randy
Weston, recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Brooklyn College
in 2006. A performance by Weston with bassist Alex Blake and
percussionist Neil Clarke will conclude the event. The symposium will
begin with a presentation on the history of jazz in Brooklyn
by Hitchcock Institute Director Jeffrey Taylor.
Saturday, 4 April, 1-5 pm, Gershwin Theater
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Tobias Picker and Ursula Oppens in Performance and Dialogue
Celebrated composer Tobias Picker has received numerous
awards including the Award in Music from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. Brooklyn College Distinguished Professor Ursula Oppens is one of the few pianists
today who has won equal renown as an interpreter of the established repertoire
and a champion of contemporary music. Together they will perform the
two-piano version of Picker’s Keys to the City, written for the
centennial of the Brooklyn
Bridge and recently
recorded by the two pianists for the Wergo label. After the performance,
they will chat about New York’s
new music scene.
Tuesday, 28 April, 12:30 pm,
Levenson Recital Hall
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