music
November 06, 2015
Ed Caner vividly remembers the first time he took the stage with Smokey Robinson. It was 1990, and Caner was playing violin for Robinson’s fans on a floating stage in the Cuyahoga River. The crowd, Caner recalled, was “overwhelmingly supercharged.” After that first night, Caner was hooked. Since…
November 06, 2015
Join APP choirs and orchestras to perform winter holiday favorites and Christmas carols at the 2015 University Circle Carol Sing Sunday, Dec. 6, at 4 p.m. at the Church of the Covenant. No audition is required, but members should be able to read music and participate…
November 05, 2015
The APP Department of Music will host a performance titled “Voice Dance,” as part of the Fall Chorus Concert. The concert will be held Friday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. University Singers, directed by Marshall Haning, and the Case Concert Choir, directed…
November 04, 2015
Dave Marsh, rock critic and historian, anticensorship activist and talk show host, will present “You Really Got a Hold on Me,” the keynote lecture for the 20th Annual Music Masters (AMM) series presented by Case Western Reserve and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Marsh’s lecture is…
October 29, 2015
The APP Collegium Musicum will perform “The Beginning of Joy: Italian Music of the Late Middle Ages” Saturday, Oct. 31, at 7:30 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. The concert will feature guest artist Shira Kammen. Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music and head of…
October 23, 2015
The Historical Performance Program will give its first concert of the year Sunday, Oct. 25, at 3 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. The performance is titled “Rhetorical Virtuosity: The ‘New Music’ of 17th-Century Italy.” Julie Andrijeski, senior instructor of music, and Christopher Bagan, lecturer in…
October 21, 2015
Presentation opens 20th Annual Music Masters tribute concert on Nov. 7, presented with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
APP will award an honorary degree to William “Smokey” Robinson to open the 20th Annual Music Masters Series tribute concert at 7:30 p.m. on…
October 20, 2015
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Faculty-Work-in-Progress lecture with Daniel Goldmark, associate professor in the Department of Music, Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Goldmark will present “UPA and Modernist Cartoon Music.” The United Productions of…
October 08, 2015
The Department of Music will host its first concerts at the newly opened Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center Oct. 11-12. APP Symphonic Winds, conducted by Ryan Scherber, and the CWRU Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Paul Ferguson, will perform Sunday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. The…
September 28, 2015
The Center for Popular Music Studies at APP will present a graduate student conference, “Popular Music and Communities,” Oct. 2-3. During the two-day conference, speakers will explore how popular music works to establish and complicate constructions of community. The…