Wednesday, April 19, 2017 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Off-campus
Music resonates through time and space - the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Purcell and others are still relevant today. What informs our modern perspective on these masterpieces? How are these ancient sounds still meaningful? Revisit the Music Humanities close listening experience in three evenings of extraordinary music and conversation.
Join Brad Garton, Professor of Music Composition and Director of the Computer Music Center (and Music Hum Professor) for Masterpieces of Western Music, Revisited.
March 22nd
Session 1: Early/Medieval/Renaissance
Composers: (anonymous), Leonin, Perotin, Hildegard von Bingen, DeVitry, Machaut, Josqui, Lotti and Palestrina
April 5th
Session 2 : Baroque/Classical
Composers: Purcell, Handel, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven
April 19th
Session 3 : Romantic/Contemporary
Composers: Chopin, Paganini, Brahms, Wagner, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Satie, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Cage, Reich, Glass and others…