Tufts Music Events Calendar

All concerts are FREE to the Tufts community and general public unless noted in their description. Program information is subject to change.

For events that require tickets, please call the Granoff Music Center Box Office at 617.627.3679. Box Office window and phone hours are:
May 8 to August 25: Mondays - Fridays, 11 am to 4 pm
August 26 to December 8: Mondays – Fridays, 10:30 am to 5 pm
The box office is closed on all Massachusetts and Federal holidays.

For non-Tufts related inquiries regarding the rental of Granoff Music Center spaces, please call the Tufts University Conference Bureau at 617.627.3568.

OCTOBER

Click here for information on the upcoming (October 4, 1 pm) Children's Concert presented by the Wind Ensemble

Friday, October 3, 2008 - Sunday, October 5, 2008
Call And Response: A Festival of New Music Honoring
T.J. Anderson's 80th Birthday • Festival Schedule

Click here for the TJ ANDERSON FESTIVAL PAGE

CLICK HERE FOR THE PROGRAM OF EVENTS for the festival
(for all events Friday - Sunday).

Friday, October 3, 2008, 8 pm
In Memoriam Jennifer Anne Fitzgerald
A recital of new works composed in memory of Jennifer Fitzgerald ‘97 by many composers, including the premiere of T.J. Anderson’s 'In Memoriam Jennifer Anne Fitzgerald.' and yet unperformed works of Fitzgerald’s. The North Carolina based "pulsoptional" will perform along with many guest artists.

Other composers for the program include: Hendrik Gideonse, Marc Faris, Sidney Boquiren, Michael McLaughlin, Todd Hershberger, and more. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center.

Saturday, October 4, 2008, 1 pm
Children’s Concert - Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts Wind Ensemble’s annual Children’s Concert features music written for and by kids, including a work of T. J. Anderson. The concert is a great event for the entire family, but suited best for children in grades K-5. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center.

Saturday, October 4, 2008, 3 - 6 PM
A Symposium on Contemporary African American Composers
Leading composers and musicians come together for a Symposium on 'Contemporary African American Composers.' Panelists include Olly Wilson (Professor of Music Composition, emeritus, UC Berkeley), Donal Fox (Composer/Pianist), Horace Maxile (Associate Director of Research, CBMR), T. J. Anderson (Professor of Music, emeritus, Tufts), Joel LaRue Smith (Director of Jazz Activities, Tufts), Trevor Weston (Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition, College of Charleston), Louise Toppin (Director, Videmus), and others to be announced. Horace Maxile will serve as moderator. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center.

Saturday, October 4, 2008, 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Reception in Honor of T. J. Anderson
Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow hosts a reception in honor of T.J. Anderson prior to the evening concert. Please contact Tara Espiritu at tara.espiritu@tufts.edu if you plan on attending the reception. Murnane Lobby, Granoff Music Center.

Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8 PM
T.J. Anderson Tribute Concert
Saturday night features new works composed in honor of T.J. Anderson by: Trevor Weston, John McDonald, Joel LaRue Smith, Olly Wilson, Donal Fox, Erik Lindgren, Jean Foo, Tom Swafford, Jason Coleman, Abigail Cross, and others. Performers to be announced. Free and open to the public. No tickets are required, reservations are not required, but we would like to know if you are coming. You can call us at 617.627.3679 or email tara.espiritu@tufts.edu to let us know. Free, open to the public. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center.

Sunday, October 5, 2008, 1:30 PM
Rededication of Planar Mountain
Join us as Tufts rededicates the Richard Hunt Sculpture "Planar Mountain" in honor of T.J. Anderson. The sculpture was previously outside of Carmichael Hall and has been moved closer to Tufts Music's new "home" on the lower end of campus. Join us outside the Aidekman Arts Center's Sculpture Court for the ceremony. Free and open to the public

Sunday, October 5, 2008, 3 PM
Works of T.J. Anderson
Works written by T. J. Anderson will be performed by a myriad of Tufts music faculty and students, as well as other special guests. Program information to be posted soon. Free and open to the public. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center.

Click here for the TJ ANDERSON FESTIVAL PAGE

Monday, October 6, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm • Free
Tufts Music Colloquium Series
John Curtis Franklin – University of Vermont.
UVM's John Curtis Franklin presents "The Archeology of Ancient Greek Music" in a faculty colloquium co-presented with the Tufts Classics Department. A light lunch will be served following the presentation that is open to anyone. Click here for Professor Franklin's website. Open to the public. No tickets required.
Varis Lecture Hall (Granoff Music Center Room M155).

Thursday, October 10, 3 pm to 4:15 pm • Free
Tufts Music Classroom Colloquium
Sindhu Revuluri (Harvard University)
Harvard University’s Sindhu Revuluri comes to Professor Joseph Auner’s Music in Turn of the Century Vienna and Paris class (Music 124) to present a special classroom colloquium Sounding empire in fin-de-siècle France. This presentation is open to the public to attend. Seminar Room, Room M038, Lower Level, Granoff Music Center. Free, no tickets required.

October 10 – October 12, 2008
HONK! AT TUFTS
HONK! 2008 – Symposium, Workshops, Festival, Parades and More. This September and October.
HONK!, the festival of street bands, takes place in the Somerville, Medford, and Cambridge area October 4–12, with dozens of events including a Symposium in the Distler Performance Hall on October 10th from 12 pm to 6 PM.

For a full schedule of events, details, information on participating, biographies, and more, visit the Tufts American Studies HONK page or honkfest.org or click the image above.

Here is a schedule of HONK! events in the Granoff Music Center
Monday, September 29 –
Charlie Keil's Music Faculty Colloquium, 12 pm to 1:15 pm
Varis Lecture Hall (Room M155, First Level), Granoff Music Center

Friday, October 10 –
Honk! Festival Symposium with Charlie Keil and other notable band leaders give workshops (12 pm to 4 pm) and present a panel discussion (4 pm to 6 pm).
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center

Click here to see information on instrumental workshops October 6-9 in Cohen Auditorium and other Tufts locations.

Thursday, October 16, 2008, 8 pm • Free
Tufts Composers with Su Lian Tan
Special guest composer/flutist Su Lian Tan (Middlebury College, pictured to the right) comes to Tufts for an evening of new works for flute and piano by John McDonald and Tufts Composers. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Friday, October 17, 9 am to 11:30 am
Tufts Music Classroom Colloquium
Tim Hoffman in Music 194 Seminar in Ethnomusicology
Tim Hoffman discusses his creative work with traditional Japanese and Indian music and literature as part of Professor David Locke’s Seminar in Ethnomusicology. This presentation is open to the public to attend. Free coffee and donuts. Seminar Room, Room M038, Lower Level, Granoff Music Center. Free, no tickets required.

Saturday, October 18, 2008, 2:30 pm - 7 pm • Free
Arts Alive Street Fest
Tufts presents its second Parents Weekend Arts Alive Street Festival featuring concerts, shows, and interactive presentations by ensembles from Tufts Music, Drama/Dance, as well as student directed groups. For a schedule of events visit parentsprogram.tufts.edu.

Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, 3 pm • Free
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Brahms, Schumann, Turina
Monica Pegis, violin, David Fisher, cello, Kazuko Matsusaka, viola, and Hisako Hiratsuka, piano perform Brahms’s Sonata in C Minor, along with works of Schumann and Turina. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Monday, October 20, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm • Free
Tufts Music Colloquium Series
Thomas Peattie – Boston University
BU's Thomas Peattie presents "The Expansion of Symphonic Space in Gustav Mahler's First Symphony " in a faculty colloquium at Tufts. A light lunch will be served following the presentation that is open to anyone. Click here for Professor Peattie's biography on the BU website. Open to the public. No tickets required.
Varis Lecture Hall (Granoff Music Center Room M155).

Thursday, October 23, 2008, 8 pm • Free
Pianist Thomas Stumpf
Pianist Thomas Stumpf presents a recital featuring the Brahms Paganini Variations, works of Arnold Schönberg, and variations of Schönberg works by Viktor Ullman. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Sunday, October 26, 2008, 3 pm • Free
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Montage Music Society
Montage Music Society presents Beauty Out of Despair, a concert featuring the Brahms C Minor Piano Quartet with works by Britten, Bartók, and Klein. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

NOVEMBER

Saturday, November 1, 2008, 1 pm • Free
Saturday Children’s Concert
Babar the Little Elephant
Pianist Andrew Rangell will narrate, perform, and illustrate The Story of Babar the Little Elephant (story: Jean de Brunhoff, music: Francis Poulenc). Fun for kids of all ages! Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Sunday, November 2, 2008, 3 pm • Free
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
A Dance with the Devil
Pianist Gregg Pauley presents a performance suited to the shortening of days! Darkness inspired piano works include Scriabin’s Black Mass Sonata, Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz, Chopin’s Funeral March, Libermann’s Gargoyles, and more! Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 8 pm • Free
The Tufts Wind Ensemble
The Tufts Wind Ensemble presents Folk Song and Folk Like, wind music with a strong connection to various folk music traditions, including Mannin Veen by Haydn Wood. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Friday, November 7, 2008, 8 pm • Tickets required
The Tufts Symphony Orchestra
The Tufts Symphony presents Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Beethoven’s Egmont Incidental Music along with works of Rossini and Strauss. Tickets are $3-$15, on sale at the Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the public. Tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
LA MUSICA CALIENTE: SEPTEMBER'S CHILD
THE JOEL LaRUE SMITH TRIO
An Event to Benefit the Eliot Pearson’s Children’s School Scholarship Fund
Two performances: 1 pm & 8 pm
Distler Performance Hall

Join us for one of two exciting performances with The Joel LaRue Smith Trio as they present Latin Jazz standards and original works from Joel’s newly released album, 'September’s Child.' The trio consists of Fernando Huergo, bass, Renato Malavasi, drums, and Joel LaRue Smith, piano (pictured below). The concerts will be an exciting tour-de-force of infectious Afro-Cuban dance rhythms which compel one’s body to dance and one’s soul to soar towards the heavens. The music fuses a rich blend of lush jazz harmonies with vibrant African and Latin American rhythms.

1 PM – Interactive Performance
(for Kids and Families!)
The 1 pm performance will be an interactive event that includes audience participation with the trio and opportunities for kids to go on stage and play percussion! Tickets are required.* 8 PM – Performance
The 8 pm performance will be a regular concert. Tickets are required.**TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW
$15 - Adults (General Public)
$11 - Tufts ID Rate: Tufts Faculty or Staff (One Per ID)
$5 - Student Rate: Tufts Students, College Students, or High School Students (13-18)
$3 - Child Rate: Kids UNDER 13

SPECIAL FAMILY DEAL
$30 – Family Ticket
The Family Ticket includes 2 Adult Tickets and 2 Student/Child Tickets.
Student/Child must come with adults to performance.

Tickets are on sale now at the Granoff Music Center Box Office or by calling 617.627.3679, M-F, 10:30 AM–5 PM. Visa or Mastercard accepted for phone orders. Visa, Mastercard, Cash, or Credit accepted for window sales.

Both events are in the Distler Performance Hall. Proceeds from this event will support the Eliot Pearson Children’s School Scholarship Fund. This event is presented by Tufts Music and the Eliot Pearson Children’s School.

Monday, November 10, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm • Free
Tufts Music Colloquium Series
Emmett G. Price – Northeastern University
Northeastern's Emmett G. Price presents "Civil Rights to Hip Hop: Movements, Meanings, and Messages through Black Popular Music" - a guest music faculty colloquium at Tufts. A light lunch will be served following the presentation that is open to anyone. Click here for Professor Price's website.
Open to the public. No tickets required.
Varis Lecture Hall (Granoff Music Center Room M155).

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 6 & 8 pm • Free
Student Recitals
Students in the Applied Music program present solo performances. Two different programs at 6 pm and 8 pm to be announced. Distler Performance Hall.

Thursday, November 13, 2008, 8 pm • Tickets required
ReSOUND - Fall Choral Concert
The Tufts Chorale and Chamber Singers present works of Handel, Mendelssohn, Ravel, and Fauré’s Requiem, conducted by Senior Michael Pfitzer. Tickets are $3-$15 and on sale at the Granoff Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the public. Tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Friday, Nov. 14 & Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, 8 pm • Free
An Evening of Chamber Music
Student chamber ensembles present music for strings, brass, winds, and piano. Programs to be announced. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Monday, November 17, 2008, 8 pm • Free
The Tufts Flute Ensemble
The talented members of the Tufts Flute Ensemble perform traditional and new music for flute choir. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8 pm • Free
The Tufts Early Music Ensemble
The Early Music Ensemble presents Music of Venice (circa 1600) with guest recorder player Daniel Meyers. Works of Monteverdi, Gabriel, Merulo, and others. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Wednesday, November 28, 2008, 8 pm • Free
The Tufts Small Jazz Ensembles
Experience jazz up close as the outstanding Tufts Monday and Wednesday Night Small Jazz Ensembles perform exciting music from a variety of traditions. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Fisher Performance Room.

Friday, November 21, 2008, 8 pm • Tickets required
The Third Day Gospel Choir
Join the 180-voice Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir for an evening of traditional and contemporary Gospel music. Tickets are $7 and on sale at the Granoff Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the Public. Tickets required. Cohen Auditorium, Aidekman Arts Center.

November 22 and 23, 2008
Tufts Festival of Southeast Asian Music

Saturday, November 22, 8 pm • Free
An Evening of Javanese Gamelan
The Boston Village Gamelan and Rinengga Sih Tentrem
(Tufts Gamelan Ensemble)
The Boston Village Gamelan and the Tufts Gamelan, Rinengga Sih Tentrem, perform a concert of traditional Javanese gamelan. Directed by Barry Drummond and guest artist I. M. Harjito.
Free and no tickets required.
Distler Performance Hall. Open to the public.

Sunday, November 23, 3 pm • Free
Music and Dance of the Philippines & Cambodia
A performance featuring 'Kulintang,' the gong–drum ensemble from Muslim minority groups in the southern Philippines, master musicians from Lowell performing Cambodian classical and folk music, and dancers from the Angkor Dance Troupe.
Free and no tickets required.
Distler Performance Hall. Open to the public.

Monday, November 24, 2008, 8 pm • Free
Tenored Tufts Composers
Tenor Thomas Gregg performs settings of translations of Paul Celan’s poem “Irisch” for tenor and piano, part of an ongoing recital project, coupled with new chamber and solo works by Tufts student composers. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

DECEMBER

Monday, December 1, 2008, 8 pm • Free
Arabic Music with Tufts Takht
The Tufts AME (or Tufts Takht) will be performing classical and folk music from the Near East and Turkey. The ensemble will have two special guests Dr. Mehmet Ali Sanlikol on vocals, Turkish Nay and other instruments and Syrian vocalist Aboud Agha. The concert program will explore the commonalities and differences between the music of Turkey and the Levant and Egypt. Free and no tickets required. Open to the public. Fisher Performance Room.

Tuesday, December 2, 8 pm • Saturday, December 6, 1 pm
African Music and Dance Featuring
Special Guest Artist Nani Agbeli
with Kiniwe, the Tufts African Music/Dance Ensemble

This fall, Tufts welcomes special guest artist Nani Agbeli for a semester residency. Son of the late Godwin Agbeli, Nani previously taught dance at the Dagbe Center in Ghana. Now based in the U.S., Nani carries on his father’s legacy of teaching and performing the African heritage. At Tufts, Nani will team-teach Kiniwe with Professor David Locke and work in the local community. Join Nani Agbeli and Kiniwe for two FREE performances this December as they perform ADJOGBO, in tribute to Godwin Agbeli (who was also Professor Locke’s teacher), as well as Gahu and Atsiagbekor. Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 8 PM - Jackson Dance Lab
Saturday, December 6, 2008, 1 PM - Distler Performance Hall*

*The Saturday performance will be presented especially for children and families and end with audience participation in a traditional circle dance!

Both events are free and open to the public. No tickets required.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 8 pm • Free
The Jumbo Knish Factory
The Jumbo Knish Factory (a.k.a. Tufts Klezmer) performs an evening of klezmer and gypsy music, and ventures into new territory playing the hypnotic sounds of Pakistani brass music. Free and Open to the Public. Fisher Performance Room.

Friday, December 5, 2008, 8 pm • Free
Fourth NME Physical: ElectroNME
Electro-acoustic works, contemporary music classics, improvisation, films, soundtracks, and other genre-bending works. The explosively avant-garde Tufts New Music Ensemble joins the Electronic Music Lab in a concert in continuing memory of Johnny Physical (Jonathan Neuman). Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

Sat., Dec. 6, 2008, 8 pm • Free
Tufts Jazz Orchestra
The Tufts Jazz Orchestra (formerly the Big Band) presents The Art of Swing - Jazz in Motion, a concert of Jazz and Afro- Cuban compositions written for cinema and stage. Composers include Bernstein, Armstrong, Ellington, Quincy Jones, and Joel LaRue Smith. Free and Open to the Public. Goddard Chapel.

Sunday, December 7, 2008, 3 pm • Tickets required
Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series
Tufts Choruses and Symphony
The Tufts Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Symphony Orchestra present Schicksalslied by Brahms along with works of Trapani, Mendelssohn, Ravel, and folksongs from Puerto Rico. Tickets are $3-$15 and are on sale at the Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the public. Tickets requiured. Distler Performance Hall.

Mon., Dec. 8, 2008, 8 pm • Free
Tufts Composers: David Stallings
David Stallings presents his Master of Arts Thesis Concert featuring the premiere of a quintet for basset horn and string quartet with Ray Jackendoff, basset horn. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.

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Box Office window and phone hours are: May 8 to August 25: Mondays - Fridays, 11 am to 4 pm August 26 to December 8: Mondays – Fridays, 10:30 am to 5 pm The box office is closed on all Massachusetts and Federal holidays. For non-Tufts related inquiries regarding the rental of Granoff Music Center spaces, please call the Tufts University Conference Bureau at 617.627.3568. OCTOBER Click here for information on the upcoming (October 4, 1 pm) Children's Concert presented by the Wind Ensemble Friday, October 3, 2008 - Sunday, October 5, 2008 Call And Response: A Festival of New Music Honoring T.J. Anderson's 80th Birthday • Festival Schedule Click here for the TJ ANDERSON FESTIVAL PAGE CLICK HERE FOR THE PROGRAM OF EVENTS for the festival (for all events Friday - Sunday). Friday, October 3, 2008, 8 pm In Memoriam Jennifer Anne Fitzgerald A recital of new works composed in memory of Jennifer Fitzgerald ‘97 by many composers, including the premiere of T.J. Anderson’s 'In Memoriam Jennifer Anne Fitzgerald.' and yet unperformed works of Fitzgerald’s. The North Carolina based "pulsoptional" will perform along with many guest artists. Other composers for the program include: Hendrik Gideonse, Marc Faris, Sidney Boquiren, Michael McLaughlin, Todd Hershberger, and more. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center. Saturday, October 4, 2008, 1 pm Children’s Concert - Tufts Wind Ensemble The Tufts Wind Ensemble’s annual Children’s Concert features music written for and by kids, including a work of T. J. Anderson. The concert is a great event for the entire family, but suited best for children in grades K-5. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center. Saturday, October 4, 2008, 3 - 6 PM A Symposium on Contemporary African American Composers Leading composers and musicians come together for a Symposium on 'Contemporary African American Composers.' Panelists include Olly Wilson (Professor of Music Composition, emeritus, UC Berkeley), Donal Fox (Composer/Pianist), Horace Maxile (Associate Director of Research, CBMR), T. J. Anderson (Professor of Music, emeritus, Tufts), Joel LaRue Smith (Director of Jazz Activities, Tufts), Trevor Weston (Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition, College of Charleston), Louise Toppin (Director, Videmus), and others to be announced. Horace Maxile will serve as moderator. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center. Saturday, October 4, 2008, 6 PM - 7:30 PM Reception in Honor of T. J. Anderson Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow hosts a reception in honor of T.J. Anderson prior to the evening concert. Please contact Tara Espiritu at tara.espiritu@tufts.edu if you plan on attending the reception. Murnane Lobby, Granoff Music Center. Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8 PM T.J. Anderson Tribute Concert Saturday night features new works composed in honor of T.J. Anderson by: Trevor Weston, John McDonald, Joel LaRue Smith, Olly Wilson, Donal Fox, Erik Lindgren, Jean Foo, Tom Swafford, Jason Coleman, Abigail Cross, and others. Performers to be announced. Free and open to the public. No tickets are required, reservations are not required, but we would like to know if you are coming. You can call us at 617.627.3679 or email tara.espiritu@tufts.edu to let us know. Free, open to the public. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center. Sunday, October 5, 2008, 1:30 PM Rededication of Planar Mountain Join us as Tufts rededicates the Richard Hunt Sculpture "Planar Mountain" in honor of T.J. Anderson. The sculpture was previously outside of Carmichael Hall and has been moved closer to Tufts Music's new "home" on the lower end of campus. Join us outside the Aidekman Arts Center's Sculpture Court for the ceremony. Free and open to the public Sunday, October 5, 2008, 3 PM Works of T.J. Anderson Works written by T. J. Anderson will be performed by a myriad of Tufts music faculty and students, as well as other special guests. Program information to be posted soon. Free and open to the public. Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center. Click here for the TJ ANDERSON FESTIVAL PAGE Monday, October 6, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm • Free Tufts Music Colloquium Series John Curtis Franklin – University of Vermont. UVM's John Curtis Franklin presents "The Archeology of Ancient Greek Music" in a faculty colloquium co-presented with the Tufts Classics Department. A light lunch will be served following the presentation that is open to anyone. Click here for Professor Franklin's website. Open to the public. No tickets required. Varis Lecture Hall (Granoff Music Center Room M155). Thursday, October 10, 3 pm to 4:15 pm • Free Tufts Music Classroom Colloquium Sindhu Revuluri (Harvard University) Harvard University’s Sindhu Revuluri comes to Professor Joseph Auner’s Music in Turn of the Century Vienna and Paris class (Music 124) to present a special classroom colloquium Sounding empire in fin-de-siècle France. This presentation is open to the public to attend. Seminar Room, Room M038, Lower Level, Granoff Music Center. Free, no tickets required. October 10 – October 12, 2008 HONK! AT TUFTS HONK! 2008 – Symposium, Workshops, Festival, Parades and More. This September and October. HONK!, the festival of street bands, takes place in the Somerville, Medford, and Cambridge area October 4–12, with dozens of events including a Symposium in the Distler Performance Hall on October 10th from 12 pm to 6 PM. For a full schedule of events, details, information on participating, biographies, and more, visit the Tufts American Studies HONK page or honkfest.org or click the image above. Here is a schedule of HONK! events in the Granoff Music Center Monday, September 29 – Charlie Keil's Music Faculty Colloquium, 12 pm to 1:15 pm Varis Lecture Hall (Room M155, First Level), Granoff Music Center Friday, October 10 – Honk! Festival Symposium with Charlie Keil and other notable band leaders give workshops (12 pm to 4 pm) and present a panel discussion (4 pm to 6 pm). Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center Click here to see information on instrumental workshops October 6-9 in Cohen Auditorium and other Tufts locations. Thursday, October 16, 2008, 8 pm • Free Tufts Composers with Su Lian Tan Special guest composer/flutist Su Lian Tan (Middlebury College, pictured to the right) comes to Tufts for an evening of new works for flute and piano by John McDonald and Tufts Composers. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Friday, October 17, 9 am to 11:30 am Tufts Music Classroom Colloquium Tim Hoffman in Music 194 Seminar in Ethnomusicology Tim Hoffman discusses his creative work with traditional Japanese and Indian music and literature as part of Professor David Locke’s Seminar in Ethnomusicology. This presentation is open to the public to attend. Free coffee and donuts. Seminar Room, Room M038, Lower Level, Granoff Music Center. Free, no tickets required. Saturday, October 18, 2008, 2:30 pm - 7 pm • Free Arts Alive Street Fest Tufts presents its second Parents Weekend Arts Alive Street Festival featuring concerts, shows, and interactive presentations by ensembles from Tufts Music, Drama/Dance, as well as student directed groups. For a schedule of events visit parentsprogram.tufts.edu. Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, 3 pm • Free Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series Brahms, Schumann, Turina Monica Pegis, violin, David Fisher, cello, Kazuko Matsusaka, viola, and Hisako Hiratsuka, piano perform Brahms’s Sonata in C Minor, along with works of Schumann and Turina. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Monday, October 20, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm • Free Tufts Music Colloquium Series Thomas Peattie – Boston University BU's Thomas Peattie presents "The Expansion of Symphonic Space in Gustav Mahler's First Symphony " in a faculty colloquium at Tufts. A light lunch will be served following the presentation that is open to anyone. Click here for Professor Peattie's biography on the BU website. Open to the public. No tickets required. Varis Lecture Hall (Granoff Music Center Room M155). Thursday, October 23, 2008, 8 pm • Free Pianist Thomas Stumpf Pianist Thomas Stumpf presents a recital featuring the Brahms Paganini Variations, works of Arnold Schönberg, and variations of Schönberg works by Viktor Ullman. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Sunday, October 26, 2008, 3 pm • Free Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series Montage Music Society Montage Music Society presents Beauty Out of Despair, a concert featuring the Brahms C Minor Piano Quartet with works by Britten, Bartók, and Klein. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. NOVEMBER Saturday, November 1, 2008, 1 pm • Free Saturday Children’s Concert Babar the Little Elephant Pianist Andrew Rangell will narrate, perform, and illustrate The Story of Babar the Little Elephant (story: Jean de Brunhoff, music: Francis Poulenc). Fun for kids of all ages! Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Sunday, November 2, 2008, 3 pm • Free Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series A Dance with the Devil Pianist Gregg Pauley presents a performance suited to the shortening of days! Darkness inspired piano works include Scriabin’s Black Mass Sonata, Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz, Chopin’s Funeral March, Libermann’s Gargoyles, and more! Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 8 pm • Free The Tufts Wind Ensemble The Tufts Wind Ensemble presents Folk Song and Folk Like, wind music with a strong connection to various folk music traditions, including Mannin Veen by Haydn Wood. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Friday, November 7, 2008, 8 pm • Tickets required The Tufts Symphony Orchestra The Tufts Symphony presents Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Beethoven’s Egmont Incidental Music along with works of Rossini and Strauss. Tickets are $3-$15, on sale at the Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the public. Tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Saturday, November 8, 2008 LA MUSICA CALIENTE: SEPTEMBER'S CHILD THE JOEL LaRUE SMITH TRIO An Event to Benefit the Eliot Pearson’s Children’s School Scholarship Fund Two performances: 1 pm & 8 pm Distler Performance Hall Join us for one of two exciting performances with The Joel LaRue Smith Trio as they present Latin Jazz standards and original works from Joel’s newly released album, 'September’s Child.' The trio consists of Fernando Huergo, bass, Renato Malavasi, drums, and Joel LaRue Smith, piano (pictured below). The concerts will be an exciting tour-de-force of infectious Afro-Cuban dance rhythms which compel one’s body to dance and one’s soul to soar towards the heavens. The music fuses a rich blend of lush jazz harmonies with vibrant African and Latin American rhythms. 1 PM – Interactive Performance (for Kids and Families!) The 1 pm performance will be an interactive event that includes audience participation with the trio and opportunities for kids to go on stage and play percussion! Tickets are required.* 8 PM – Performance The 8 pm performance will be a regular concert. Tickets are required.TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW $15 - Adults (General Public) $11 - Tufts ID Rate: Tufts Faculty or Staff (One Per ID) $5 - Student Rate: Tufts Students, College Students, or High School Students (13-18) $3 - Child Rate: Kids UNDER 13 SPECIAL FAMILY DEAL** $30 – Family Ticket The Family Ticket includes 2 Adult Tickets and 2 Student/Child Tickets. Student/Child must come with adults to performance. Tickets are on sale now at the Granoff Music Center Box Office or by calling 617.627.3679, M-F, 10:30 AM–5 PM. Visa or Mastercard accepted for phone orders. Visa, Mastercard, Cash, or Credit accepted for window sales. Both events are in the Distler Performance Hall. Proceeds from this event will support the Eliot Pearson Children’s School Scholarship Fund. This event is presented by Tufts Music and the Eliot Pearson Children’s School. Monday, November 10, 2008, 12 pm to 1:15 pm • Free Tufts Music Colloquium Series Emmett G. Price – Northeastern University Northeastern's Emmett G. Price presents "Civil Rights to Hip Hop: Movements, Meanings, and Messages through Black Popular Music" - a guest music faculty colloquium at Tufts. A light lunch will be served following the presentation that is open to anyone. Click here for Professor Price's website. Open to the public. No tickets required. Varis Lecture Hall (Granoff Music Center Room M155). Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 6 & 8 pm • Free Student Recitals Students in the Applied Music program present solo performances. Two different programs at 6 pm and 8 pm to be announced. Distler Performance Hall. Thursday, November 13, 2008, 8 pm • Tickets required ReSOUND - Fall Choral Concert The Tufts Chorale and Chamber Singers present works of Handel, Mendelssohn, Ravel, and Fauré’s Requiem, conducted by Senior Michael Pfitzer. Tickets are $3-$15 and on sale at the Granoff Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the public. Tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Friday, Nov. 14 & Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, 8 pm • Free An Evening of Chamber Music Student chamber ensembles present music for strings, brass, winds, and piano. Programs to be announced. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Monday, November 17, 2008, 8 pm • Free The Tufts Flute Ensemble The talented members of the Tufts Flute Ensemble perform traditional and new music for flute choir. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8 pm • Free The Tufts Early Music Ensemble The Early Music Ensemble presents Music of Venice (circa 1600) with guest recorder player Daniel Meyers. Works of Monteverdi, Gabriel, Merulo, and others. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Wednesday, November 28, 2008, 8 pm • Free The Tufts Small Jazz Ensembles Experience jazz up close as the outstanding Tufts Monday and Wednesday Night Small Jazz Ensembles perform exciting music from a variety of traditions. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Fisher Performance Room. Friday, November 21, 2008, 8 pm • Tickets required The Third Day Gospel Choir Join the 180-voice Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir for an evening of traditional and contemporary Gospel music. Tickets are $7 and on sale at the Granoff Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the Public. Tickets required. Cohen Auditorium, Aidekman Arts Center. November 22 and 23, 2008 Tufts Festival of Southeast Asian Music Saturday, November 22, 8 pm • Free An Evening of Javanese Gamelan The Boston Village Gamelan and Rinengga Sih Tentrem (Tufts Gamelan Ensemble) The Boston Village Gamelan and the Tufts Gamelan, Rinengga Sih Tentrem, perform a concert of traditional Javanese gamelan. Directed by Barry Drummond and guest artist I. M. Harjito. Free and no tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Open to the public. Sunday, November 23, 3 pm • Free Music and Dance of the Philippines & Cambodia A performance featuring 'Kulintang,' the gong–drum ensemble from Muslim minority groups in the southern Philippines, master musicians from Lowell performing Cambodian classical and folk music, and dancers from the Angkor Dance Troupe. Free and no tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Open to the public. Monday, November 24, 2008, 8 pm • Free Tenored Tufts Composers Tenor Thomas Gregg performs settings of translations of Paul Celan’s poem “Irisch” for tenor and piano, part of an ongoing recital project, coupled with new chamber and solo works by Tufts student composers. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. DECEMBER Monday, December 1, 2008, 8 pm • Free Arabic Music with Tufts Takht The Tufts AME (or Tufts Takht) will be performing classical and folk music from the Near East and Turkey. The ensemble will have two special guests Dr. Mehmet Ali Sanlikol on vocals, Turkish Nay and other instruments and Syrian vocalist Aboud Agha. The concert program will explore the commonalities and differences between the music of Turkey and the Levant and Egypt. Free and no tickets required. Open to the public. Fisher Performance Room. Tuesday, December 2, 8 pm • Saturday, December 6, 1 pm African Music and Dance Featuring Special Guest Artist Nani Agbeli with Kiniwe, the Tufts African Music/Dance Ensemble This fall, Tufts welcomes special guest artist Nani Agbeli for a semester residency. Son of the late Godwin Agbeli, Nani previously taught dance at the Dagbe Center in Ghana. Now based in the U.S., Nani carries on his father’s legacy of teaching and performing the African heritage. At Tufts, Nani will team-teach Kiniwe with Professor David Locke and work in the local community. Join Nani Agbeli and Kiniwe for two FREE performances this December as they perform ADJOGBO, in tribute to Godwin Agbeli (who was also Professor Locke’s teacher), as well as Gahu and Atsiagbekor. Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 8 PM - Jackson Dance Lab Saturday, December 6, 2008, 1 PM - Distler Performance Hall* The Saturday performance will be presented especially for children and families and end with audience participation in a traditional circle dance! Both events are free and open to the public. No tickets required.* Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 8 pm • Free The Jumbo Knish Factory The Jumbo Knish Factory (a.k.a. Tufts Klezmer) performs an evening of klezmer and gypsy music, and ventures into new territory playing the hypnotic sounds of Pakistani brass music. Free and Open to the Public. Fisher Performance Room. Friday, December 5, 2008, 8 pm • Free Fourth NME Physical: ElectroNME Electro-acoustic works, contemporary music classics, improvisation, films, soundtracks, and other genre-bending works. The explosively avant-garde Tufts New Music Ensemble joins the Electronic Music Lab in a concert in continuing memory of Johnny Physical (Jonathan Neuman). Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall. Sat., Dec. 6, 2008, 8 pm • Free Tufts Jazz Orchestra The Tufts Jazz Orchestra (formerly the Big Band) presents The Art of Swing - Jazz in Motion, a concert of Jazz and Afro- Cuban compositions written for cinema and stage. Composers include Bernstein, Armstrong, Ellington, Quincy Jones, and Joel LaRue Smith. Free and Open to the Public. Goddard Chapel. Sunday, December 7, 2008, 3 pm • Tickets required Sundays at Tufts - Community Concert Series Tufts Choruses and Symphony The Tufts Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Symphony Orchestra present Schicksalslied by Brahms along with works of Trapani, Mendelssohn, Ravel, and folksongs from Puerto Rico. Tickets are $3-$15 and are on sale at the Music Center Box Office (617.627.3679). Open to the public. Tickets requiured. Distler Performance Hall. Mon., Dec. 8, 2008, 8 pm • Free Tufts Composers: David Stallings David Stallings presents his Master of Arts Thesis Concert featuring the premiere of a quintet for basset horn and string quartet with Ray Jackendoff, basset horn. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Distler Performance Hall.
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