Category: Music

While Carleton’s Arena Theater and Concert Hall, known on campus as the Music and Drama Center, has been slated for demolition since the Facilities Master Plan was released in May 2014, its time for demolition is finally here. As we prepare to say goodbye to a part of Carleton’s history, we take a brief look back at the Center’s 50-year legacy.

Gus Holley ’20 took first prize on the pipa, Shannon Liu ’23 won second prize on the dizi, and Marianne Gunnarsson ’22 earned an Outstanding Award on erhu.

Over the past two years, assistant professor of music Andrea Mazzariello has facilitated artistic collaborations between Carleton students and young people from the greater Northfield community.

Renowned musician and composer Caroline Shaw visits Carleton on Friday, April 12. A vocalist, violinist, composer, producer, and recipient of both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy Award, Shaw will perform solo and also be joined by Carleton music faculty performing compositions from her repertoire for string quartets.

Justin London, Carleton’s Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, Cognitive Science and the Humanities, will discuss the complex nature of musical tempo perception along with topics in interdisciplinary research.

Carrie Newcomer is a singer, songwriter, poet, and activist whose growing edge is learning how to live in “the beautiful not yet” with passion and purpose.  She is joined by the Carleton Choir for a concert at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 26 in Kracum Performance Hall.

The program will include a mix of Chinese classical, folk, percussion, minority and contemporary music.

The concert will feature award-winning pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias and works by Mozart, Bruckner, Widmann and Beethoven.

The performance is an exploration of Christian, Jewish, and Arabic musical traditions in late medieval Spain.

Part of an extensive world tour, the performance is designed to take audiences “to a world of peace and bliss.”