The Magnolia: Spring 2022
An Evening with Sona Jobarteh
March 18, 2022 at 5 pm, Benson 401B Experience an evening with Sona Jobarteh, a griot from the West African nation of Gambia, on Friday, March 18 from 5-6 pm. As a griot, Sona is a highly-trained instrumentalist who performs on the kora and whose […]
Being Balinese
March 17, 2022 at 6 pm, The Lam Museum of Anthropology The Lam Museum welcomes I Gde Made Indra Sadguna, a musicology doctoral candidate specializing in Balinese gamelan, and Made Ayu Desiari, who specializes in Balinese dance. Indra will speak about the many ways of […]
Aeneid: Proem and Vulcan’s Reply
February 24, 2022, 6 pm, Brendle Hall On February 24, the Secrest Artists Series will host Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano String Quartet for a night of compositions inspired by Dido, the mythic queen of Carthage and key figure in Vergil’s Aeneid, the most world-influential […]
The Power of Music
The show must go on!
Collaborations
Collaborations: Claire Chase & Levy Lorenzo
February 4, 2022, Brendle Hall A Creative Writing and Musical Performance Collaboration. Claire Chase presents “Grace.” Vocalizing texts written by her grandmother (edited in collaboration with Pauline Oliveros), Chase is joined by Levy Lorenzo controlling Oliveros’ Expanded Instrument System (EIS). Join students from Creative Writing […]
