Institute for Studies in American Music
Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities
at Brooklyn College

In conjunction with
the Conservatory of Music, the American Studies and Women's Studies Programs, and the Department of Africana Studiesat Brooklyn College

Spring 2003

Who’s Invisible Now? Ralph Ellison on Jazz Geoffrey Jacques is a student in the Ph.D. program in English at CUNY and teaches at Hunter College. He is the author of two books of poetry, Hunger and Suspended Knowledge, as well as Free Within Ourselves, a critical history of the Harlem Renaissance, and The African American Movement Today. James de Jongh is the director of the CUNY Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) and Professor of English at City College and the Graduate School of CUNY. He is the author of Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination and the plays Do Lord Remember Me and Play to Win (co-author). Monday, 24 February, 3:30-4:45pm, BC Student Center

Between Sisters and Other Recent Compositions Brooklyn-born Alvin Singleton attended NYU and Yale, and studied as a Fulbright scholar in Rome. He served as composer-in-residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, as resident composer at Spelman College, and as professor of composition at Yale University. Recipient of numerous awards, his works have been performed by major orchestras and chamber groups in the US and Europe. Monday, 10 March, 12:15-1:30pm, BC Student Center

My Music As It Is Pauline Oliveros, composer, accordionist, and professor of composition at Mills College, has performed worldwide as a soloist and with the Deep Listening Band. She received a NEA Fellowship to compose Epigraphs in the Time of AIDS for the Deep Listening Band. Her recent projects include Njinga the Queen King, a musical theater work presented during the BAM Next Wave Festival, and Hotel Regina, a video opera. Monday, 24 March, 12:15-1:30pm, BC Student Center

Mike Seeger in Concert A Folk Music Tribute to Alan Lomax with an Introduction by Ray Allen Mike Seeger, son of Ruth and Charles Seeger, has been an internationally recognized folk singer and instrumentalist since he helped found the New Lost City Ramblers in the late 1950s. He has recorded over forty albums of traditional American music and received five Grammy nominations. He is co-editor of the Old-Time String Band Songbook. This performance is part of the Tribute to Alan Lomax conference. Wednesday, 9 April, 12:15pm-1:30pm, Levenson Recital Hall