Featuring Dr. Anthony Lee, pianist Pianist Anthony Lee completed his DMA studies in 2020 under Steven Spooner at the University of Kansas and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan. He won a grand … Read more
Featuring Matthew Svec, clarinet Bridget O’Leary, piano Program Osvaldo Lacerda Valsa Choro (Brazil) Carols Guastavino Sonata (Argentina) Paquito D’Rivera Contradanza y vals venezolano (Cuba/US) Blas Atehortúa Tres piezas para clarinete solo (Colombia) Arturo Márquez Zarabandeo (Mexico) Wilson Orlando Haro Lopez El molino y el maíz … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gamelan Nyai Saraswati, directed by John Caldwell is a free music concert with special guest artist, Midiyanto (UC Berkeley).
The injunction to commemorate or to remember a historical event leaves open the question of what precisely should be remembered. In the case of the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry, the injunction usually implies that those who remember something about it … Read more
Join the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music, Department of Asian Studies, Southeast Asia Faculty Group, and Carolina Asia Center for the 2019 Gamelan Concert featuring Carolina’s Javanese Gamelan “Nyai Saraswati” in Moeser Auditorium, Hill Hall. Stay after the concert to try out … Read more
Join the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music, Department of Asian Studies, Southeast Asia Faculty Group, and Carolina Asia Center for the 2019 Gamelan Concert featuring Carolina’s Javanese Gamelan “Nyai Saraswati” in Moeser Auditorium, Hill Hall. Stay after the concert to try out … Read more
A chamber music theatre work for singing actress and trio (cello, piano and percussion) based on the lives of three legendary Latin American Women: Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Salvadoran peasant activist Rufina Amaya and Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni. Text is … Read more
This free lecture will focus on Martin Buber’s concept of faith as life-long process in which one faces the existential ambiguities of interpersonal relations and the anguished realities of modern Jewish life. Paul Mendes-Flohr is a professor emeritus of modern … Read more
What makes the poetry of the Bible different from other ancient poetic traditions? Placed in its ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean context, Jacqueline Vayntrub highlights the unique characteristics of biblical poetry and shows how novices and experts alike can appreciate … Read more
As Sephardic studies develop with great impetus as a new field within American Jewish Studies, the question of how musicology participates in them remains open. Surveying the present state of Sephardic music research, this lecture will explore some future prospects … Read more
