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The music department will host the 25th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Chapter of The College Music Society today and tomorrow at the Williams Center for the Arts.
The College Music Society is a professional organization that comprises college and university teachers of all areas of music in the Northeast United States. Those interested in attending any of the paper presentations, lecture recitals, or concerts may do so; email Bill Melin, professor of music, at melinw.
A concert featuring works by Harding, Barta, Halper, Krzywicki, and Brickman will be held 7:30 p.m. today in the Williams Center auditorium. Another will take place there Saturday, featuring works by Aberdam, Lifchitz, Ovens, Mazurek, Silverman, and Lane.
Sessions during the two days will be held on a wide range of topics, such as “Students’ Experience with Internet-based Testing in an Introductory Music Course,” “When the Political becomes the Personal: Musical Responses to Social Injustice,” “Sufi Poetry as set by Johannes Brahms,” “Mexican Piano Music during the First Half of the Twentieth Century” “Yin and Yang of Jazz: Exploring the Relationship between Composing and Improvising,” “The Jewish Voice: The Story of Jewish Composers in Nazi Europe,” and “A Survey of the Beatles and their Music on Today’s Youth Culture.”