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An amazing weekend of live public performances culminates with a performance by two master fiddlers.
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The artists’ unique approach to their craft navigates a rich musical landscape in idiosyncratic and singular ways, blurring lines between the traditional and the avant garde, between the composer and the performer.
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Evening of South Indian Music: Nirmala Rajasekar
2 March 2016Nirmala Rajasekar, world-renowned Carnatic veena musician and educator of South Indian Music, performed at the Great Hall at Carleton on Friday night, February 26th, 2016 as part of an entire “Evening of South Indian Music”.
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Chinese Music Ensemble Concert
2 March 2016The Carleton Chinese Ensemble performed Sunday, February 2016 in the concert hall along with the Korean Drum Combo and World Music Chamber Ensemble.
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London serves as guest editor for musicology magazine
1 February 2016Justin London, Professor of Music, served as guest editor of a special issue of Empirical Musicology Review (vol. 10, no. 4, 2015). The issue is dedicated to “Musical Rhythm Across Cultures,” and it includes an article on the nuances of performance timing in Balkan percussion music by Daniel Goldberg ’08. EMR is an open-source journal with a public peer review process, where each target article is accompanied by several commentaries.
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Julian Kytasty presents rare concert
30 January 2016Photos of renowned Ukrainian-American composer and bandurist Julian Kytasty performing in the concert hall.
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Julian Kytasty Concert
25 January 2016Julian Kytasty, a Ukranian-American musician, composer, and conductor, has been invited to speak and perform at Carleton.
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Chinese pipa player Gao Hong and klezmer violiinist Steven Greenman were unexpectedly asked to improvise together at a folk music festival. That sparked a musical collaboration that will be showcased this Friday, January 15 in the Carleton Concert Hall.
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London has internationally co-researched paper published
11 January 2016Justin London, Professor of Music, recently published an article in Acta Psychologica, “Speed on the Dance Floor: Auditory and Visual Cues for Musical Tempo.” This work, done in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, uses motion-capture technology combined with perceptual judgments to show that vigorous dancing makes the music seem to go faster.
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Hong receives honorable mention for new CD
11 January 2016Gao Hong, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments and Director of the Carleton Chinese Music Ensemble, received an Honorable Mention for her newest CD “Pipa Potluck” that esteemed author and musician Ted Gioia deemed a “recording of distinction” alongside CDs by Itzhak Perlman & Emanuel Ax, Terry Riley, Canned Heat with John Lee Hooker, Queen Latifah, Brian Wilson, and Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard. “Cluck Old Hen” from “Pipa Potluck” was also listed in Gioia’s “201 Favorite Tracks of 2015” that included selections from Adele, Bob Dylan, Kendrick Lamar, Kronos Quartet, Weather Report, and others. Ted Gioia—who has been called “one of the outstanding music historians in America”—listened to over 1,000 CDs in all styles and genres before determining “The 100 Best Albums of 2015.”