This month’s Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University will feature Maeve Sterbenz, assistant professor of Music at Smith College, presenting the program “Listening to Ballet.” Sterbenz will speak about a contemporary ballet called Seven Sonatas, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky to keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. In connection with this piece, the talk will consider how ballet can serve as a lens for music analysis—particularly, as a source of physical and affective attributes that listeners can project onto sounds and sonic patterns.

This colloquium is presented by the Granoff Music Fund.

Due to COVID regulations, live audiences at Tufts Music events are restricted to individuals with a Tufts ID only who have filled out the university’s Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. For others, the event will be presented through Zoom (Meeting ID: 955 9656 7782, Passcode: 536297).