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UPCOMING EVENT--ALL ARE INVITED!
Music Department Colloquium
Wednesday, November 11, from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
FREE--Performing Arts Center, room 264
Associate Professor Robert Gluck will speak on: "Silver Apples of the Moon and The Electric Circus: Creative Music Meets Commerce in Late 1960s New York."
GLUCK'S ELECTRIC BREW FEATURED BY KEYBOARD MAGAZINE
The latest issue of Keyboard magazine includes a feature story about the University at Albany's own Bob Gluck. Keyboard has for decades been a leading trade publication in the field of jazz, popular, and electronic music.
Gluck was designated as Keyboard's "Unsigned Artist of the Month" for June 2009 for his 2007 CD, Electric Brew (EMF Media). (Read more...)
RECOGNITION CEREMONY
On Saturday, May 16, 2009, at 5:30 p.m., the Departments of Art, Classics, Music, and Theatre hosted a Recognition Ceremony for their majors where each graduate was individually recognized for his/her achievement. (Read more...)
DON BYRON SCORES ROME PRIZE
It's been that kind of a year for Visiting Associate Professor Don Byron. The
acclaimed musician and composer was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in music when he heard he'd been awarded the famed Samuel Barber Rome Prize for Musical Composition. (Read more...)
PETR KOTIK RESIDENCY: CROSSING BETWEEN THE 'LITERARY AND THE SONIC'
Petr Kotik, who will visit UAlbany March 26-28 for a special residency, composes and conducts music that crosses boundaries. Kotik's music "explores artistic works that cross between the literary and the sonic, the visual and the musical. There are few champions of this repertoire as important as Petr Kotik and so we are very fortunate to have his upcoming visit," said Robert Gluck, associate professor of music and director of the Electronic Music Studios. (Read more...)
YOUTH MOVEMENTS FESTIVAL: MUSIC FOR THE CHILD IN ALL OF US UAlbany Assistant Professor of Music Duncan Cumming had an idea: create a concert just for children. His concept has grown into the Youth Movements Festival, presented by the Department of Music Nov. 13-16 at the Performing Arts Center.
"Many companies do this, but unfortunately most seem to think that Mozart is better experienced when this music is transcribed for electronic sounds and kazoo, or occasionally xylophone and toy trumpet," Cumming said. (Read more...)
