CCM s Thinking About Music Lecture Series Resumes on Friday, Jan. 26

Each semester, UC's College-Conservatory of Music welcomes distinguished experts for a series of free musical discussions and lectures. This spring, the

Thinking About Music

lecture series will present four free public talks, beginning with a presentation on cross-disciplinary approaches to music and mobility by Harvard University Professor of Musicology

Kate van Orden

this Friday, Jan. 26.

Sponsored by the Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation, these music theory and history discussions feature diverse topics presented by distinguished experts from all over the United States and are designed to engage participants’ imaginations and to consider music in new ways.

This semester’s lecturers also include Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music Professor

Douglas Shadle

(Feb. 9), Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Professor

Kyle Adams

(March 23) and Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University Professor

Datta Ram Purohit

(March 30).

Since its inception in 1997, the Thinking About Music Series has presented nearly 130 lectures and one symposium by guests from a number of different colleges, universities, schools of music, foundations, institutes, museums and publications. The subjects of the lectures have covered historical musicology, music theory and ethnomusicology, along with the ancillary fields of organology, dance, music business and law, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy, theology and sociology of music.

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SPRING 2018 JOSEPH AND FRANCES JONES POETKER THINKING ABOUT MUSIC LECTURE SERIES

2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26

• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •

SONGS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO MUSIC AND MOBILITY
Kate van Orden, Harvard University

Location

: Baur Room

Admission

: FREE

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2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9

• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •

FINDING FLORENCE PRICE: ON ARCHIVES AND SPECTRAL LEGACIES
Douglas Shadle, Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University

Location

: Baur Room

Admission

: FREE

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CANCELLED

2:30 p.m. Friday, March 2
• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •
ANTHOLOGIZING ROCK AND ROLL: RHINO RECORDS AND THE REPACKAGING OF ROCK HISTORY
Daniel Goldmark, Case Western Reserve University

Location: Baur Room
Admission: FREE

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2:30 p.m. Friday, March 23

• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •

HOW DID CHROMATICISM BECOME AN ‘-ISM’?
Kyle Adams, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Exploring theories of chromaticism from classical antiquity through the early eighteenth century.

Location

: Baur Room

Admission

: FREE

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2:30 p.m. Friday, March 30

• The Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series •

FOLK MUSICIANS AND THE TRADITIONAL THEATER OF UTTARAKHAND, INDIA
Datta Ram Purohit, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University

Location

: Baur Room

Admission

: FREE

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Event Information

Unless otherwise indicated, all Thinking About Music lectures take place in the Baur Room of CCM’s Corbett Center for the Performing Arts, which is located on the campus of the University of Cincinnati.

These events are free and open to the public. All event dates and programs are subject to change. Visit

ccm.uc.edu

for the most current event information.

Parking and Directions

Parking is available in the CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit

uc.edu/parking

for more information on parking rates.

For detailed maps and directions, please visit

uc.edu/visitors

. Additional parking is available off-campus at the U Square complex on Calhoun Street and other neighboring lots.

For directions to CCM Village, visit

ccm.uc.edu/about/directions

.

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CCM Season Presenting Sponsor: The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation

CCM’s Thinking About Music Series is sponsored by the Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Fund of the Cambridge Charitable Foundation, Ritter & Randolph, LLC, Corporate Counsel; along with support from Interim Dean mcclung’s Office, the Graduate Student Association and the Division of Composition, Musicology and Theory at CCM.

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