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Maltz Performing Arts Center to open with historic Violins of Hope Concert
Sold-out opening concert featuring The Cleveland Orchestra on Sunday, Sept. 27, to be televised, live-streamed online Following 11 months of careful renovation, the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple – Tifereth Israel opens this Sunday, Sept. 27, with an extraordinary…
Next Baker-Nord Center event to feature talk on early street music in Paris
As a Fulbright Scholar in Paris during the 2014-2015 academic year, John Romey, a graduate student in the Department of Music, undertook an enormous archival project that catalogued and analyzed manuscript chansonniers and print sources, documenting song texts that circulated in street…
CWRU musicologist is first to identify Leonardo da Vinci in 1505 engraving, solves mystery in Shakespeare comedy
Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music at APP, recently solved not one, but two mysteries in the arts world. First, he figured out a puzzle about Shakespeare’s comedy Love’s Labour's Lost. Weeks later, he discovered what appears to be a depiction of…
Two students selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2015-16
Two APP students will spend the next year abroad as recipients of Fulbright Scholarships. Michael Bane, a fifth-year PhD candidate in music, is the third Fulbright Scholar from the music department in the last three years; he’ll study French musical history in Paris.…
How do sacred Jewish texts influence pop culture? Find out at upcoming lecture
The Bible continues to influence Israeli culture, even in the rock, hip-hop and rap music scene. Learn how pop stars are mining sacred Jewish texts to provide an unexpected window into Israeli art forms, both secular and Jewish, at “Hip-Hoppin’ Jews: on the Bible and Israeli Pop Music.” The talk,…
Historic "Violins of Hope" come to Greater Cleveland this fall
Community collaboration to offer concerts, exhibitions and educational opportunities centered on the role of music and musicians during the Holocaust More than a half dozen organizations across the community have come together to bring the historic Violins of Hope to Northeast Ohio this fall.…
Baroque Orchestra to give free, public concert Sunday
The APP Baroque Orchestra will present “Virtuosi à Due: Concertos for Trumpets, Natural Horns, Violins, and Basses” Sunday, April 19, at 8 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. Julie Andrijeski, senior instructor of music, will direct the performance. The concert is free and open…
Two faculty members named American Council of Learned Societies fellows
Two APP faculty members recently joined the ranks of the prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellows. Elina Gertsman, associate professor of art history, and Daniel Goldmark, associate professor of music, were elected to this year’s 70-member class…
Attend ”Folly, Shipwrecks and Battles” collaborative concert April 12
The APP Department of Music will host the “Folly, Shipwrecks and Battles: Early Spanish Music for Voices and Instruments” collaborative concert Sunday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. The concert will feature the Early Music Singers, directed by Ross W.…
Hear from 2014 Wittke Award winners during April 10 talk
Katia Almeida, instructor of anthropology, and Lisa Nielson, SAGES and music lecturer, will present at the annual Wittke/Jackson Lecture on Friday, April 10, at 12:30 p.m. in DeGrace Hall, Room 312. Almeida and Nielson are the 2014 winners of the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in…