November 2024
Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Chamber Orchestra
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series presents the Tufts Chamber Orchestra performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 under the direction of John Page. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Granoff Colloquium: Blown Kisses – How Film Composers Ruin Romantic Tension
Today's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University is "Blown Kisses: How Film Composers Ruin Romantic Tension" and features Tufts faculty member Frank Lehman. Whether for melodrama or comedy, few cinematic tropes are as memorable — or cringeworthy — as the rudely interrupted kiss. Composers for film and screen media have long appreciated the power of music to disrupt scenes of amorous passion, and have developed a wide arsenal of techniques and tricks to deflate romantic tension. This talk considers…
Find out more »Tishler Performance Competition Finals
Tufts University students compete for the Elizabeth Verveer Tishler Prize in Music Performance. The Tishler Prize, established in 1984 by Elizabeth Verveer Tishler, is awarded on the basis of a competition, open to all undergraduates except those enrolled in the Tufts-New England Conservatory dual degree program. Performance is limited to classical, jazz, or modern work. Elizabeth Muriel Verveer Tishler was born in December 1909. She and her husband, Max Tishler, met at Tufts, from which she graduated in 1931. She was…
Find out more »Tufts Composers: New at Noon #2
Tufts Composers present a New at Noon program featuring new vocal settings suggested by T.J. Anderson's 2022 "Three Songs of Life," offered alongside songs, settings, and instrumentals by Julia Cavallaro, Duke Ellington, Eliza Howells, Matthew Seliger, Melinda Tian, Christopher Walton, Yixiao Wang, and guest composer Trevor Weston (Tufts class of 1989). Featuring soprano Janet Stone, mezzo sopranos Julia Cavallaro and Eliza Howells, pianist John McDonald, and bassoonist Angela Tsou. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts…
Find out more »Tufts Youth Philharmonic Fall Concert
The Tufts University Youth Philharmonic presents its fall concert under the direction of John Page. Music includes Tchaikovsky's Overture to Romeo and Juliet, selections from Bizet's Carmen Suite, Mozart's Overture to the Magic Flute, and John Williams' "Raiders March" from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Suggested donation at the door: $10 per person, $25 per family. Also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Sunday Concert: Tufts Flute Ensemble
The Tufts Sunday Concert Series features the Tufts Flute Ensemble presenting a fun, intriguing, and varied program of music from the 17th to the 21st century featuring bass, alto, C flute and piccolo. Nina Barwell, director. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Small Jazz Ensembles
The Tufts Department of Music presents a concert featuring the Paul Ahlstrand and Nando Michelin small jazz ensembles. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »December 2024
Tufts Chamber Music
Tufts University students present works for strings, winds, brass and piano. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts New Music Ensemble
The New Music Ensemble at Tufts University performs under the direction of Donald Berman. Free to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Composers New Sounds Now #3: Harmonica Designs
Today's edition of New Sounds Now, "Harmonica Designs," will feature Leon Li, a harmonica performer and PhD student working on harmonica acoustics, design, and development with Jiangyin Soundreal Music Instrument Co., Ltd. Li will team up with Tufts Composers to forge a new body of work for newly streamlined instruments. Free and open to the public with no tickets required; also viewable via Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Jumbo Knish Factory: Tanz!
Jumbo Knish Factory, the klezmer ensemble at Tufts University, is pleased to resume its Klezmer dance party and concert after four long years of not being able to hold hands and dance in a circle. Michael McLaughlin directs. Free to the public with no tickets required. The event also may be viewed online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
Find out more »Tufts Opera Ensemble: Monteverdi to Menken
The Tufts University Opera Ensemble presents "Monteverdi to Menken - An Evening of Opera, Operetta, and Musical Theater Scenes" from composers Claudio Monteverdi to Alan Menken and everyone in between. Carol Mastrodomenico, stage director, and Thomas Stumpf, music director. Free to the public with no tickets required. Also viewable online through Tufts Music Live Streaming.
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