To look around the Department as I return from leave is to see how well things went last year, due in large part to the heroic efforts of Martha Feldman in spite of the burgeoning economic crisis.
This unique exhibit, which marks the 200-year observance of Joseph Haydn’s death (1732-1809), is on view throughout Autumn Quarter in the first floor lobby of the Regenstein Library. The aim of the exhibit, which was assembled by the Haydn Festspiele in Eisenstadt, Austria, is to intensify awareness of the composer in Europe and the [...]
The Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (MGMC) is a collaborative venture organized by students from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. MGMC holds an annual conference and new music concert, allowing graduate students from across the continent, representing various sub-disciplines of music, to come together and share ideas on [...]
December 2008 saw the publication of the critical edition of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, edited by the Center’s coordinator, Patricia Brauner. Barbiere is the second volume of Works of Gioachino Rossini, published by Bärenreiter-Verlag under the general editorship of Philip Gossett. In the substantial volume of Critical Commentary accompanying the score there is an [...]
The 2008-09 Performance Program season offered the variety, quality and inventive musicianship audiences and performers alike have come to expect from the Department of Music. This year presented many distinctive opportunities and gainful collaborations, including concerts and master classes with world-renowned musicians (such as Artists-in-Residence including eighth blackbird, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the [...]
The University of Chicago Presents’ 2008/2009 season launched to great acclaim with the 10-day Olivier Messiaen Music Festival, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the French composer’s birth. The first undertaking of this type by the University’s 65-year-old music presenter, the Festival featured a lineup of renowned Messiaen scholars and musicians, as well as [...]
Newberry Consort artists-in-residence David Douglass and Ellen Hargis worked through more material from the Howard Mayer Brown collection at the Newberry Library this year, and toured with the wild Renaissance band Piffaro!, singling out music for Carnival in several concerts. This theme underscored their musical plan for the Early Music Ensemble as well, as the [...]
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Hyatt Regency Montreal
Alfred Rouleau “C” Room
9PM – 12 AM
November 12-15, 2009
Joint alumni reception held with other institutions
The Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel
Liberty Ballroom
November 14th, 2009
10 PM to 1 AM
November 19 – 22, 2009
No alumni reception to be held this year
