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- Pianists Louise and L茅na Kollmeier performed and discussed Jean Berger鈥檚 鈥淐aribbean Cruise,鈥 on Belgian radio @RadioBelgique this week. The section starts at minute 54 and ends at 1 hour 33 seconds. The AMRC is home to the Jean Berger Collection.
- Professor of Women & Gender Studies,聽Kristie Soares, will inaugurate the聽American Music Research Center鈥檚聽new Counterpoints Lecture with her talk,聽"Dancing With Death: Celia Cruz鈥檚 Az煤car and Queer of Color Survival"聽on Monday, November 2 at 5:30 pm MST.
- The American Music Research Center聽and the Department of Musicology聽will host Rutgers University musicology professor,聽Eduardo Herrera, on Monday, Oct 26 at 1 pm (MST) for his presentation, 鈥淎mericanism as Musical Strategy: From Pan Americanism to Latin Americanism.鈥澛
- Houston-based musicologist Matthew J. Jones and CU Director of Vocal Pedagogy John Seesholtz will present, 鈥淢usic and HIV/AIDS 鈥 A Look at Then and Now,鈥 online on Monday, October 12 at 5:30 pm MST.
- Recent College of Music Clarinet Performance and Music Education graduate, Anoushka Divekar, debuted聽Take Two Knees, a virtual concert she and collaborators created from works by Black Female composers.
- Otis Taylor plays, "Ten Million Slaves" in the Columbia Cemetery near his home in Boulder, Colorado for the Songs for Change project.
- At Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Greek musicians are leading a rediscovery of intercultural dialogue through music. At the forefront of these efforts is Cretan singer Eirini Tornesaki (also known by her artist name, Erini).
- Composer and pianist Alex Craig of Broomfield, Colorado died of a sudden heart attack on the evening of Saturday, April 18th.聽Alex was a part of the musical scene in Boulder from the mid-1960s when he began accompanying music students as an undergraduate at CU-Boulder.
- Professor of Piano Pedagogy聽Alejandro Cremaschi and his students are uncovering a neglected group of composers rarely visible in the world of classical piano music with their project, "Hidden Voices."
- In celebration of the College of Music's聽centennial year,聽Thomas聽Riis, Joseph Negler emeritus professor of music who directed聽of the AMRC from 1992-2018,聽has written,聽Music at the University of Colorado:聽A Brief History.