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MUSI 240 & MUSI 255- Field Trip

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

This event is for students enrolled in MUSI 240: Music in Asia and MUSI 255: Music, History, and Culture ONLY. Students enrolled in Professor Marc Gidal's "Music in Asia" and "Music, History, and Culture" courses will take a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn to understand a selection of music traditions […]

Music from China

Susan Cheng, Wang Guowei, and a third member of their ensemble Music from China will present traditional and contemporary compositions of Chinese "silk and bamboo" music. Similar to the group's workshop at Ramapo in Spring 2015, the workshop will focus onĀ  he instruments, ensemble interaction, approaches to program music (instrumental music that portrays non-musical topics), […]

MUSI 316: Music, Technology, and Media Field Trip

This trip is available to students enrolled in MUSI 316- Music, Technology, and Media only. Students of MUSI 316: Music, Technology, and Media will visit the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey and participate in a workshop on wax cylinders and early disc recordings. They will also tour the Morris Museum […]

Erik “Pik Funk” Smith: Insights from a Professional R&B Artist

Friends Hall 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

This event is open to all Ramapo students. Visiting Ramapo for a demonstration and Q&A with music students will be Eric "Pik Funk" Smith, a professional bassist who has been accompanying top-tier R&B pop-music artists for the past decade. He is passing through New York while on tour with Janet Jackson. Having learning music in […]

Peter Prisco, Guitarist: Les Paul Festival Workshop

H-Wing Auditorium

Les Paul Festival Workshops are open to Ramapo Students, Alumni, and Friends of Ramapo A jazz guitar duo presents a master class/clinic on jazz improvisation, interplay, and musical conversation.  

Latin Music Workshops: Cuban Percussion, New York Salsa, and Mexican Mariachi

BC 301

This event is open to students enrolled in "American Musical Traditions" only. Memo and Jacqueline Acevedo, father and daughter, are two remarkably talented, in d-demand, and very friendly percussionist in the New York Latin music and Latin jazz scenes. As a Colombian musician who has lived in Mexico, Spain, Canada, and the U.S., Memo plays […]

Performance/Lecture: Piano music from Spain, 18th -20th centuries, by Mario Prisuelos

This event is open to students enrolled in "Music, History, and Culture" and "Music in Latin America" ONLY The Spanish pianist Mario Prisuelos will present a performance/lecture introducing aspects of the development of Spanish art music from the 18th to the 20th centuries. He will cover stylistic changes from baroque through romantic styles and, more […]