Sitarist Roopa Panesar and her accompanists will present two workshops about Hindustani classical music as well as a concert in the Sharp Theater (please see the Berrie Center event listing here for more details). The workshops will have students sing along with Panesar; she will also explain the instruments and her understanding of musical practice as spiritual meditation.

For more information contact Professor Marc Gidal.

 

This event is open to students enrolled in MUSI 366-Digital Music Performance ONLY.

Pioneering American electronic music composer and NYU faculty member Morton Subotnick presents a rare concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of this groundbreaking record Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic album ever to be commissioned by a classical record label. Often called the “founding father” of electronica, Subotnick’s work “Silver Apples” has become a modern classic and was ready entered into the national Registry of Recorded works at the Library of Congress. Only 300 recordings throughout the entire history of recordings have been chosen.

This is a closed event.

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 in their cultural and historical contexts. They will examine paintings, sculptures, religious objects, architectural artifacts, and decorative objects to understand better the aesthetics, symbols, artistic practices, patron institutions, religious and secular values, and other aspects of the cultural settings that are applicable to both art and music.

This is a closed event.

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 in Morristown, New Jersey and see demonstrations of the Murtogh D. Guiness collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

This is a closed event.

Switzerland-based composer/violinist Jonathan Keren will run a workshop alongside Prof. Gilad Cohen. Praised by the New York Times for shifting between “tastes of sublime mysticism and catastrophic wildness,” Mr. Keren has built his career working in a wide range of musical genres including classical music, Baroque, Irish music, Arabic music, and Klezimer. At the workshop, which will host students of various courses including Song Writing and Music in Asia, Mr. Keren will talk about his music, play a range of selections with Prof. Cohen, discuss his various career paths, perform and give feedback to students’ original works, and discuss various topics that are relevant for Ramapo’s student’s including composition/songwriting, improvisation, intersections among genres, using strings in popular music, and having a career as a composer/performer/arranger.

For a short video of Jonathan Keren’s work please click the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkFxFsbNOxM

This event is open to the public.

 

 

Quartet for the End of Time

The West Side Concert Series maintains a “no admission fee” policy

Care provided for pre-school children and free parking

 

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