By Jill Yesko, University Relations
Topics ranging from Latin popular music to mathematical symbols in eclectic, electronic compositions will be featured as part of the annual lecture/concert series sponsored by the Composition, Theory and History division of the School of Music at UNCG.
This year’s series debuts Thursday, Sept. 21, at 4 p.m. with “African-American Sacred Music and its Modern Relevance: From Spirituals to Contemporary Gospel,” a lecture given by Dr. Stephanie Lawrence-White, assistant professor of music and accompanist for the College Choir at Bennett College for Women in Greensboro. Lawrence-White’s expertise ranges from early Italian Baroque music to Florence Beatrice Price, the first African-American woman composer to have a symphony performed by a major U.S. orchestra.
All lectures will be held in the Collins Lecture Hall at the School of Music and are free and open to the public. Admission will be charged for the Feb. 6 concert at UNCG.
Series events include:
• Thursday, Oct. 12, 4 p.m., Reginald Bain Composition, University of South Carolina at Columbia: “Strange Attractors & Logarithmic Spirals.”
• Thursday, Nov. 9, 4 p.m., David Guion, UNCG Music Library: “Karl Traugott Queisser (1800-1846) and His Role n the Musical Life of Leipzig.”
• Thursday, Jan. 18, 4 p.m., David Garcia, UNC Chapel Hill: “Embodying Music/Disciplining Dance: The Mambo Body in Havana and New York City.”
• Tuesday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.,UNCG Composers Concert. Recital Hall.
$10 admission/$6 seniors/ $3 students.
• Thursday, Feb. 22, 4 p.m., David Levy, Wake Forest University: “Brahm’s Fourth Symphony as Retrospective History of Music from the Renaissance Brahms's Own Day.”
• Thursday, March 29, 4 p.m., Gabriel Fankhauser, Appalachian State: "Cadential Intervention and the Finale of Shostakovich’s Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67."
• Thursday, April 19, 4 p.m., John Ferri, N.C. School of the Arts: “Interpreting Discontinuity in Chopin’s Scherzo Movements.”
For further information contact the UNCG School of Music (336) 334-5789.
