Da Lin (PhD 2017) will give a lecture titled "Labor and Value in a Transitional Political Economy: the Case of Kun Opera in China."

Composer Elizabeth Brown, who has played shakuhachi for more than 30 years, will talk about its deep influence on her music. She will perform her recent solo Dialect as well as a piece from the traditional solo repertoire, which sounds radical even today.

Visiting Scholar Zack Furness will give a lecture titled "'Protest and Survive': Punk Rock and Radical Politics."

Rachel Mundy will give a lecture titled “Sound Evaluation: Animals and the Measure of Musical Difference."

Gregory Booth will lecture on "Three Historical Conjunctures in the Music of the Hindi Cinema: What is Musical/Cultural Change and How Does it Work?"

This talk will provide an overview of my compositional practice. I will focus on the role of context, harmony, color  and large scale organization in my recent music and provide an overview of the tools, sketching practices and compositional process that inform my work.

Guillaume Du Fay’s Nuper rosarum flores has been ground zero for symbolic interpretation in musicology ever since Charles Warren suggested that the form of the motet reflects the architectural proportions of the cathedral of Florence. We know Du Fay wrote Nuper rosarum flores in conjunction with the 1436 dedication of Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome, the architectural marvel that caps the building.

Through some one hundred and fifty works composed for a wide range of performance genres, Orlando Jacinto Garcia has established himself as an important figure in the new music world. The distinctive character of his music has been described as “time suspended- haunting sonic explorations” – qualities he developed from his work with Morton Feldman among others. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1954, Garcia migrated to the United States in 1961 and received his DMA in Music Composition from the University of Miami in 1984.