This event is open to students enrolled in INTD 101-10 only.

Professor Terra Vandergaw will bring her INTD class to the Signature Theater in NYC to enhance student engagement with the summer reading and to make it relevant to the course. Students will see “In the Blood” performed on 9/16/17  to help launch discussions on the power of performance.

This is a closed event.

 

 

Salieu Suso, a Gambian master musician and kora-harp player, will visit Ramapo for a performance-demonstration and discussion on Tuesday, February 21, 6 – 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges in the Student Center.  Everyone is welcome to attend.  Mr. Suso comes from a long line of jali/griots (musicians/historians/storytellers) in the Gambia and has lived in New York since 1989.  He will explain his family’s heritage, the role of jali in his West African culture, the kora, and his music.  The kora is a magnificent 21-stringed harp played with both hands, fingers and thumbs separated to play three parts simultaneously. Jali kora players accompany themselves while singing songs, telling stories, and giving praise.  If you haven’t heard it before, the instrument has a rich sound and its music is stunningly beautiful.  Mr. Suso has recorded on Lyrichord Discs, Smithsonian Folkways, and Verve Records.  He has performed solo kora or with his ensemble at major venues, universities, and museums, including the United Nations, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Apollo Theater of Harlem, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rutgers, and NYU.  He has participated in international development awareness programs, such as the UN’s Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the International Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination in 2015 and Voices Against Ebola in 2016.

His visit to Ramapo, funded by a CA Platinum Grant and organized by the Music Program, contributes to the college-wide Year of Africa and Black History Month celebrations.

For more information, contact Professor Marc Gidal (mgidal@ramapo.edu.)

A trio of Brazilian guitarists who are touring the East Coast will stop at Ramapo for a day of performance-demonstrations, explanations, and discussion in three of Ramapo’s music courses. These superb professional guitarists are Ricardo Peixoto and, from Brazil, Roserio Souza and Edinho Gerber, who perform together regularly at “Duo Violao Brasil” (Guitar Duo Brazil).

For more information contact Marc Gidal at mgidal@ramapo.edu

Aeolus Quartet Performs Ramapo Students’ Works

Thursday, April 20th 2017 at 2:00pm, York Room, Birch Mansion, free admission and open to the public

Inspired by classical and contemporary composers, students of Prof. Gilad Cohen’s course Musicianship III: Composition have been challenged to compose string quartets of their own.  The New-York-based award-winning Aeolus Quartet will be presenting a concert of more than 10 student works written in this course.

Established in 2008 at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Aeolus Quartet have won awards in the Coleman International Chamber Ensemble Competition, Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition, and International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in New England.

During Latino Heritage Month of 2016, Cuban jazz pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa will share his music with students and the regional community in a two-day residency. He will rehearse and perform with Ramapo students in the jazz ensemble, joined by Ramapo alumna singer Michelle Encarnacion, for a concert Friday night. In addition to showcasing his collaboration with students, the concert in the Sharp Theater will feature his trio, who are sure to entertain the campus and public. During the residency, Lopez-Nussa will also coach students in the course “Music Improvisation” and discuss his career strategies in “The Capstone Seminar in Music.” The “Live Audio Engineering” course will have the opportunity to assemble and manage the audio system for the concert. All Ramapo students will be invited to attend events.

This is a closed event.

Professor Peter Campbell’s History of Theater class will be visited by Noh performer Elizabeth Dowd of the Noh Training Project. Dowd will engage students in observation and experiential activity on the art of Japanese Noh Acting. Students will watch an expert performer use her body and voice to perform the difficult, ancient art of Noh and then have opportunities to learn movements and vocal methods as well which will tie into their learning about acting methodologies, performance culture, and the links between culture and representation.

This event is open to students of THEA 232 only.

On Wednesday, April 20 at 5:30 PM Professor Ben Neill will present a demonstration/concert of ambient music and video in his Horizonal installation in the Pascal Gallery. Neill will perform on the mutantrumpet, his self-designed hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. The mutantrumpet enables Neill to control digital audio and video in real time, and was used to generate his multimedia piece based on the paintings of Andy Moses in the gallery installation. The concert will include music from Neill’s Horizonal CD, released in 2015, and his electronic opera The Demo, premiered at Stanford University in 2015.

The Ramapo College Chorale (Directed by Dr. Lisa Lutter) and Ridgewood High School Choirs (Directed by Steven Bourque)  present:

“Tyler’s Suite”

West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood on Sunday, April 24th, 2016 at 2:30pm.

 

Ticket information:

$20-Suggested Donation | $5-College Students | High School Students Free

Proceeds Benefit the Tyler Clementi Foundation
For information call Dorothy Neff (201) 447-5134