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Schools - Composition Departments
Boston’s thriving intellectual
and educational community is home to numerous first-rate
conservatories and college music departments. Many of our members
attend, are alumni of, or currently teach at these internationally
renowned institutions. Since the educational process can be a defining
part of a composer’s development, our website highlights the area's
composition departments on a rotating basis.
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| Featured Composition
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The Tufts University Music Department is home to an undergraduate and graduate program in music composition generally known as Tufts Composers. Directed by Associate Professor of Music John McDonald (composer and pianist), the Tufts Composers' annual academic program features weekly seminars attended by undergrads, grads, and special students alike; private lessons; fifteen on-campus concerts each year featuring works by students, faculty, and guest composers; improvisation and performance opportunities through NME (Tufts New Music Ensemble) plus jazz, orchestral, choral, African Music and Dance, Gamelan, and other chamber ensembles.
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| In addition to its undergraduate music major, this vitally active program features a two-year masters degree requiring eight courses, and embraces non-western and non-classical traditions in its menu of classes and performances. Lecturer Joel LaRue Smith (Jazz Studies), Associate Professor David Locke (Ethnomusicology and African Music), Associate Professor and Chair Janet Schmalfeldt (Music Theory), and many other distinguished faculty talents contribute daily to the health of this unusually personal composition curriculum.
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| Upcoming Events of Interest at Tufts:
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October 16 & 18, 2004, 8 PM Saturday and 5 PM Monday
Tufts University Alumnae Hall, 11 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA
Renowned piano trio Triple Helix presents a Saturday concert
From Other
Shores: Celebrating the Diversity of American Music,
with works by Bright
Sheng, David Baker, Charles Ives, Paul Schoenfeld,
John McDonald; and a Monday Master Class featuring readings of works by Tufts
undergraduate
and graduate composers. Part of an ongoing residency.
- IMPROVFEST 2004
November 1 & 2, 2004, 8 PM
Tufts University Alumnae Hall, 11 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA
Monday, November 1, NME, the inimitable Tufts New Music Ensemble,
presents commissioned and improvised works in a surprising full-evening package.
Tuesday, November 2, pulsoptional, Duke University's roving band
of
composers presents a program of arrangements of piano music by Henry Cowell
(1897-1965).
- Chamber Music by Tufts Composers
November 29 & December 1, 8 PM
Tufts University Alumnae Hall, 11 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA
Two exciting evenings of chamber music premieres.
- Parlour Music on Professors Row
Wednesday, December 8, 12 noon
Tufts University, 48 Professors Row
Marco Visconti-Prasca and John McDonald discuss and play piano music by
Earle
Brown (1926-2002).
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