Klezmer and other events at OSU

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>From: daniel avorgbedor <avorgbedor(dot)1 (at) 
>postbox(dot)acs(dot)ohio-state(dot)edu>
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> SOUNDS AND SENSIBILITY: MUSIC, MIND, BODY, CULTURE
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>To celebrate the launching of ethnomusicology as an integral component of
>its master's and doctoral programs in musicology, the School of Music at The
>Ohio State University (Columbus) is hosting "Sounds and Sensibility," a
>series of events for the academic year 1998-99 featuring lectures,
>discussions, and concerts that explore diverse aspects and traditions of
>world music.
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>Four colloquia, organized around prominent scholars invited from other
>institutions, will explore recent trends in ethnomusicology, considered as
>an integral part of broader  academic inquiry. Each featured guest will give
>a public lecture that touches on several disciplines, thereby illustrating
>ways in which ethnomusicology draws on and contributes to a spectrum of
>academic fields, including cognitive science, ethnolinguistics, cultural
>anthropology, folklore, the performing arts, and art history. Alongside the
>public lecture, the invited scholar will lead an undergraduate class, a
>graduate seminar, and a discussion with students and faculty.
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>In addition, two musical colloquia, led by invited performers, will offer a
>direct and extraordinary experience of different musical traditions,
>Alongside public concerts, each of the musicians will conduct workshops in
>music and other performing arts, offering opportunities for rich interactive
>learning.
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>The School of Music invites you to participate in these events, as
>elaborated in the schedule below.
>
>For further information, call the musicology office at (614)292-0789.
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>OCTOBER  1998
>>>>  5 -10
>"A Journey into Indonesian Music, Dance, and Drama" (Wrhatnala Gamelan [Bali])
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>Nine Indonesian dancers, musicians, and actors, led by celebrated Balinese
>choreographer and composer I Gusti Agung Ngurah Supartha, will be in
>residence on the OSU campus for  one week. Mr. Supartha and his group will
>give concerts,
>workshops, and lecture-demonstrations. The workshops will provide practical
>skills in Balinese and Javanese music, dance, and drama.
>
>The week's activities will begin with a lunch-time concert on the Oval on
>October 5 and close with a concert by Mr. Supartha's group, together with
>his workshop students, on the  evening of October 10. Other concerts will be
>presented on October 6, 7, and 8.
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>>>>  14, 4:30 P.M.      Weigel Auditorium
>     Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University)
>"The Klezmer Revival: Sounds of Sensibility"
>Dr. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will explore the development of the Klezmer 
>phenomenon
>during the last 25 years and specifically examine the Klezmer revival
>movement in New
>York.
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>>>>  14, 8:00 P.M.     Weigel Auditorium
><The Andy Statman Quartet> (New York City)
>Music of the Jewish Mystics
>Andy Statman's concert will present a new and unique approach to ancient Jewish
>music, in which Hasidic melodies, composed specifically to induce spiritual
>experience, are filtered through fresh, expressive improvisations and
>jazz-related textures.
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>NOVEMBER, 1998
>>>>  18, 4:30 P.M.     131 Hitchcock Hall
>Gerhard Kubik (University of Vienna, Austria; University of Mainz, Germany)
>"Musical Cognition and Processes of Enculturation in Eastern Angola"
>
>Dr. Kubik's lecture will from his field experiences in Africa since 1959 and
>on his own field recordings, constituting perhaps the largest and most
>comprehensive single collection of documented recordings of African and
>diasporic music and oral literature.
>
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>JANUARY 20, 1999
>>>>  4:40 P.M.     Wexner Center Film/Video Theater
>John Baily (University of London, England)
>"Cognitive Models for Improvised Performance on the Afghan Lute (Rubab)"
>
>Dr. Baily's lecture will explore a grammar that underlies Afghan instrumental
>improvisations and elucidate ways in which Afghan musicians conceptualize their
>improvised behavior, including the terminology they employ to describe
>individual patterns. Acclaimed by Afghans as a performer of their music, he
>will demonstrate his lecture by playing the rubab.
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>APRIL 14, 1999
>>>>  4:30 P.M.    Weigel Auditorium
>Jean-Jacques Nattiez (University of Montreal, Canada)
>"Marriage Initiation Dance among the Baganda of Uganda: A Semiological 
>Analysis"
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>Dr. Nattiez's lecture will address marriage rites among the Baganda of Uganda,
>illuminating evident and hidden connections among sex roles, initiation 
>rituals,
>drumming, and dancing. He will illustrate his lecture with unique footage
>recently recorded in Uganda.
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