You can now view video from this spring's Gamelan concert on YouTube.
Adriana Helbig is pictured above (center) with the members of Pitt's Carpathian Music Ensemble.
I was thinking of having a recital, but as it turns out, most of what I would do if I had one, I’ll already be doing in an event this Thursday! Pitt’s own Colter Harper, Carlos Peña and Geña will be among the performers that evening. I hope you’ll grace us with your presence. Peace, my friends! María Eugenia Nieves Escoriaza aka Geña
Benefit for Bangladesh
Your Inner Vagabond
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7 p.m.
Admission:
Students $7
Non-students $10
Children under 10: free
Cause: This event is a benefit for improving the quality of education in rural Bangladesh. We are currently working with a school in Sherpur village located approx. 100 miles north of the capital Dhaka. We are raising funds to build a library, provide teacher training, support the students financially and make available other resources for a quality education. Find out more after the jump.
Ethnomusicology graduate student Ben Pachter will give a lecture on Japanese group taiko drumming titled "Big Drum, Small World" as part of Pitt's Outside the Classroom Curriculum. Pachter's talk is sponsored by Asian Studies Center and takes place at Monday, March 2 at 6 p.m. in 4130 Posvar Hall.
Our next three events comprise a lecture by ethnomusicologist and composer Victor Grauer on Music in Deep History, The Heinz Chapel Choir's annual Chamber Choir Festival, and concert by the Pitt's Symphony Orchestra. Grauer's lecture takes place on Friday, February 13 at 4 p.m. in Room 132 of the Music Building, the Heinz Chapel Choir and guest choirs will perform on Sunday, February 15 at 3 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Carpathian Ensemble rocks the house at Your Inner Vagabond, March 17, 2009.
Adriana Helbig, Director, and the Carpathian Ensemble perform of Gypsy, Armenian, Moldavian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, and Klezmer music.
Professor Andrew Weintraub leads the University Gamelan in a concert at Heinz Hall as Resident Conductor Daniel Meyer and the PSO look on.
On December 9–12 Pitt's Gamelan Ensemble, directed by Professor Andrew Weintraub and Pitt graduate student Indra Ridwan, joined the Pittsburgh Symphony at Heinz Hall where busloads of fourth graders had the opportunity to explore the cultures and traditions of Asia through music. Gamelan Ensemble performances were interspersed with the PSO's presentations of Dialogue of the Wind and Sea from Debussy's La Mer, The Chinese Dance and Dance of the Mirlitons from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Polovtzian Dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, and music by two contemporary Chinese composers, Chen Gang (Morning in Miao Ling) and Zhou Tian (First Sight). Throughout the program Professor Weintraub and PSO Resident Conductor Daniel Meyer explained various elements of Asian music and how the different composers incorporated them into the orchestral medium.
309, Bellefield Hall, free
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Japan and the United States throughout the 1990s, this paper will describe an electronic music genre called Noise within the transpacific loops of its circulation during this period. I describe Noise as part of a technological production of "feedback" that transforms the circulation of popular music through the subjective emplacements of its listeners. When we tune into feedback, we move our models of musical culture away from narratives of national identities, youth subcultures or local music scenes, stressing instead the sonic experiences of circulation as they are interpreted by its myriad subjects. Feedback experiments with the possibilities of selfhood in the globalization of media — with all of its noisy interruptions, distortions, and individual moments of sensory overload.
William Pitt Union-Dining Room A
Featuring lectures by ( pictured L-R) Ingrid Furniss, Bell Yung, Bo Lawergren, and a recital by harpist and kugo player Tomoko Sugawara.
Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Center and the Music Department