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Faculty of Music Colloquia

Lent term 2017

The Colloquium series is the main opportunity for members of the Faculty of Music, researchers from other departments, and the general public to come together and hear papers on all aspects of music research, given by distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad. Colloquia are held on Wednesday evenings in the Recital Room of the Faculty of Music, West Road. Admission is free and all are welcome. Please arrive at 4.50pm for a 5.00pm start. Papers are followed by a discussion and a drinks reception with the speaker.

 

Wednesday, 18 January 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Lydia Goehr
Columbia University

'Expressing what exists is an endless task': On instruments of the arts and instruments of thought. (A lecture on music, philosophy, and painting)

 

Wednesday, 25 January 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Martin Stokes
King’s College, London

Notes and Queries on 'Global Music History'

 

Wednesday, 1 February 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Ben Winters
Open University

Musical Materiality and the Film Scores of Erich Korngold

 

Wednesday, 8 February 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Mark Evan Bonds
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The Composer as Method Actor

 

Wednesday, 15 February 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room. Faculty of Music

Rachel Adelstein
University of Cambridge

Avot v’imahot: Women, Voice, and Music in British Synagogues

Wednesday, 22 February 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

Matthew Machin-Autenrieth
University of Cambridge

Musical Memories of al-Andalus: Cultural Diplomacy and Moroccan Immigration in Andalusia

 

Wednesday, 1 March 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room Faculty of Music

Katherine Hambridge
Durham University

Popularising the ‘Popular’

 

Wednesday, 8 March 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

George E. Lewis FBA
Columbia University

Wort Lecture: Benjamin Patterson’s Spiritual Exercises

 

Wednesday, 15 March 2017
5.00pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music

George E. Lewis FBA
Columbia University

Wort Lecture: Expressive Awesomeness: New Music and Art in Chicago, 1965–75