2018 - 2019 Academic Year
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Was Dvorak's American Dream...a Nightmare?
Public Talk by Michael Beckerman
Friday, April 26, 2019
4:00-5:00 pm |Auditoriumon91 campus
Free and open to the public
Was Dvorak's "New World" visit a dream, which brought enlightenment and freshness to American music, or just another example of confusion, colonizing and exploitation? How did different types of thinkers with different agendas and perspectives answer this question at the time, and how do they today? We invite you to join us and explore the answers to these questions with Dr. Beckerman.
is Carroll and Milton Petrie Chair and Collegiate Professor of Music at New York University. He has written articles on such subjects as film scoring, music of the Roma (Gypsies), Mozart, Brahms, exiled composers, and music in the camps, as well as many studies and several books on Czech topics, includingDvořák and His World(Princeton University Press, 1993),Janáček as Theorist(Pendragon Press, 1994),New Worlds of Dvořák(W.W. Norton, 2003),Janáček and His World (Princeton, 2004), andMartinů’s Mysterious Accident (Pendragon, 2007). Dr. Beckermanhas been a frequent contributor toThe New York Timesand was a regular guest onLive From Lincoln Centerand other radio and television programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Dr. Beckerman lectures nationally and internationally and has organized many concerts and symposia. He was awarded the Janáček Medal by the Czech Ministry of Culture, is a recipient of the Dvořák Medal, and is also a Laureate of the Czech Music Council; he has twice received the Deems Taylor Award. He was chair of the New York University Department of Music (2004–13), served as distinguished professor at Lancaster University (2011–15), and last year received an honorary doctorate from Palacký University in the Czech Republic.
This public talk is in conjunction with"" program on Saturday,April 27 at 7:30 pm in Macky Auditorium, which features theNew World Symphonyand PeterBoyer'sEllis Island. Dr. Beckerman will give the 6:30 pm pre-concert lecture."Dream of America" tickets are sold.
Beckerman's talk will be in the new CASE Building which sits above the Euclid Parking Garage at 1725 Euclid Avenue, just west of the Imig Music Building.
Leyla McCalla
An Evening of Caribbean and Cajun Folk Jazz
Friday, April 19, 2019
6pm |on91 campus
Free and open to the public
Presented by The Cultural Events Board and Graduate Musicology Society. Reception to follow at 7:15 in. For more information contact Zane Cupec atzane.cupec@colorado.edu.
The Daughter of Dawn
Featuring the(dir. by Rodney Sauer)
Monday, March 18, 2019
7:30PM |, 91 Campus
Hosted by the American Music Research Center and the.
told the story of a Comanche chief's daughter torn between two lovers, one wealthy but cowardly, the other poor but honest and loyal. A contest of bravery involving a dangerous jump off of a cliff reveals the true nature of each man. The cowardly lover disgraced by his failing defects to the rival Kiowa tribe and joins in a failed attack on the Comanche village. When the Comanches successfully repel the attack the Chief gladly sends his daughter off with her true love and the young lovers, paddling together in a canoe, sail into the proverbial sunset.
This event is FREE and open to the public!
Phantoms of the Archives: Music for the Early Cinematic Supernatural and Other Tales
Public Talk with Kendra Leonard
Monday, March 18, 2019
2:00 pm | Music Theater in theon91 campus
Archives are full of ghosts—the ghosts of music long-forgotten, technologies now superseded, practices that have faded away with time. This talk examines music used to accompany and signify the supernatural the silent film, as well as what can be learned by excavating the ghosts of musicians’ lives and careers now held in archives both at the University of Colorado at 91 and elsewhere. Learn about the sounds of the séance, how