January 2025
Tufts Youth Philharmonic Benefit Concert
Members of the Tufts Youth Philharmonic perform a concert to benefit their program. John Page directs. Suggested donation at the door is $10 per person, $25 per family. The performance also will be viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
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Tufts Sunday Concert: Walking Shadows
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Walking Shadows," with Edith Auner and Thomas Stumpf performing works for piano four hands by Brahms, Stumpf, and Schubert. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Granoff Colloquium: Exploring the Mind Through Music
Today's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features Dr. Anthony Brandt of Rice University speaking on "Exploring the Mind Through Music: Combining Artistic Performance and Scientific Experiment." Thanks to advances in mobile brain-body imaging (MoBI), music and other art forms now have the potential to help scientists explore the neural underpinnings of human cognition and our social interactions in real-world conditions. Brandt, professor and chair of Composition & Music Theory at Rice's Shepherd School of Music, will discuss several…
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #4: When We’re Upset
What disturbing issues, concepts, attitudes, and occurrences incite musical responses? In today's edition of New Sounds Now, "When We're Upset," Tufts Composers provide provisional examples in new works for performance. Free and open to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Impossible Music: Playing the Imaginary
As part of the ongoing "Impossible Music" exhibition at Tufts University Art Galleries, the Tufts New Music Ensemble — with special guest John McDonald — will perform a selection from Tom Johnson’s "Imaginary Music" series (1974-1975, 1993). Containing a total of 104 scores, these drawings of musical symbols or loose suggestions of notes promote non-linear interpretations, and Johnson used them as tools to imagine new musical possibilities. Free and open to the public with no tickets required. On view until April…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Anticipation
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents "Anticipation" — music by Jacob Kremberg, Johann Schenk, and J.P. Rameau with Pamela Dellal, voice; Catherine Liddell, Baroque lute and theorbo; Frances Conover Fitch, harpsichord; and Jane Hershey, viola da gamba. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #3
In today's New at Noon series program, "Make Me Something to Play," Tufts Composers tackle the challenge of writing for aspiring instrumentalists. Looking to T.J. Anderson, Bartok, McDonald, Satie, Stravinsky and others, didactic ideas turn fully musical. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Family and Children’s Concert: Rainbow Jeff EP Release Show
Today's Family and Children's Concert presented by the Tufts Department of Music is a special occasion: It celebrates the release of "Life’s A Song. Sing It Loudly!,” a digital EP of original songs by “Rainbow Jeff” Rawitsch! “Listen to Lincoln” Gray and “Musical Megan” McCormick join “Rainbow Jeff" for a concert to celebrate the achievement, which was two decades in the making, and remind all of us that “Life’s A Song. Sing It Loudly!” Rawitsch, the manager of the Granoff…
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Not Dead Yet!!
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series features Department of Music professor Paul Lehrman grudgingly presenting a concert tribute to the legendary (and 96-year-old) Tom Lehrer, with Thomas Stumpf, piano. An afternoon to be wasted with the words and music (?) of Lehrer, the great American satirical songwriter of the 1950s and '60s known for parodying various forms of popular song. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
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