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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Eastman Main Building, Room 404
Composition Master Class with Chen Yi

8:00 p.m.
Opening Concert in Kilbourn Hall

Mbira Masters of Zimbabwe and African Alchemies (Martin Scherzinger, director) (repeat performance of African Alchemies and Antara Winds at Cornell University, Sunday, September 21 at 8 p.m. and Syracuse University, Tuesday, September 23 at 8 p.m.)

Co-sponsored by the Eastman World Music Series

For tickets, contact the Box Office online or at 585.454.2100.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Eastman Main Building, Room 120

8:30 a.m.
Breakfast buffet (coffee, juice, rolls, fruit)

9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Paper Session

9:30-10:15 a.m.
Sumanth S. Gopinath, University of Minnesota,
“Trajectories of the Political Ringtone: Hugo Chávez and the Referendum of 2007”

10:15-11:00 a.m.
Carol A. Muller, University of Pennsylvania,
Musical Echoes: Diasporic Listening and the Creation of a World of South African Jazz”

11:00-11:15 a.m.
Break

11:15-12:00 p.m.
W. Anthony Sheppard, Williams College,
“Global Exoticism and Modernity:
The Case of Chinese-Language Pop Music”

12:00-12:45 p.m.
Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music,
“Musical Conversations in Bali”

12:45-2:00 p.m.
Lunch break

2:00-3:00 p.m.
Composer presentation: Chen Yi

3:00-3:15 p.m.
Break

3:15-5:00 p.m.
Round Table Discussion with symposium speakers,
plus guest composer Chen Yi. Martin Scherzinger, New York University, moderator


Kilbourn Hall

8:00 p.m.
Works of Chen Yi, including the premiere of her Wind Quintet No. 3 by Antara Winds (free)

program includes:

  • Two choral works, Eastman Chorale
  • Sparkle, octet, Ossia, Eastman School of Music
  • Duo Ye, Steven Heyman, Syracuse University, piano
  • Fisherman’s Song, Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, violin, and Yin Zheng, piano

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For questions about specific events, contact Deanna Phillips (administrative assistant, Musicology department) at (585) 274-1450 or dphillips@esm.rochester.edu.


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