UCR Department of Music

2019-2020 Wednesday@Noon Series

The Wednesday@Noon Series offers concerts, lectures, and presentations of academic research by Department of Music faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and international guest artists and scholars. Deborah Wong, coordinator.

::::::::::::::::::: FALL 2019 :::::::::::::::::::

OCT 9 – Presentation in ARTS 157  
“MU/巫: Shamanic Ritual”
by Dohee Lee, Artistic Director, Puri Arts
Co-sponsored by the Department of Dance
Deborah Wong, coordinator
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OCT 16– Presentation in ARTS 157 
Ian Dicke, Associate Professor, Composition, UCR
User Agreement: Searching for Privacy in the Digital Age          
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OCT 23    157 – Lecture in ARTS 157 
Iker Saitua, Basque Government Postdoctoral Fellow in History at UCR
Strange Sounds: Music, Basque Immigration, and the Sheepherder Culture in the American West 
Walter Clark, coordinator
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OCT 30 – Lecture in ARTS 157            
Wolfgang Reisinger, Organist and Director of Music, Composer, and Teacher 
Maurice Duruflé - The Last Impressionist?    
Walter Clark, coordinator
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NOV 13 – Recital in ARTS 157             
English, German and Italian Art Songs
Vocal recital by baritones Alexander Aguirre and Chengyu Ma 
Ralph Cato, vocal instructor                
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NOV 20 – Performance in 157            
Student Performance Series              
Jonathan Keplinger, coordinator                         
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DEC 4 – Concert in ARTS 157 
UCR Choral Society 
G. Edward Bruner, conductor             
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::::::::::::::::::: WINTER 2020 :::::::::::::::::::

JAN 15 – Lecture in ARTS 157 
Salvador Hernandez, University of North Texas 
Dancing for Life: Music, Immortality, and Values in San Pedro Xicoras, Mexico
Walter Clark, coordinator
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JAN 22 – Lecture in ARTS 157 
Miguel A. Roig-Francolí, 
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music Theory and Composition, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music 
A Spaniard in Cincinnati: Tales and Musics of an Immigrant Scholar
Walter Clark, coordinator
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JAN 29 – Presentation in ARTS 157 
Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawai`i Chapter 
Practice papers presented by grad students
Jonathan Ritter, coordinator
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FEB 5 – Lecture in ARTS 157 
Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Jan and Beta Popper Professor of Music, UC Davis                                                     
Don Giovanni the Cannibal and other Tyrants 
Rogerio Budasz, coordinator
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FEB 12 – Presentation in ARTS 157 
Paulo C. Chagas, Professor of Composition, UCR Department of Music
Sound Imaginations: Immersive Sound and Video Installation 
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FEB 26 – Performance in ARTS 157 
Student Performances: Classical, jazz and more                                                                
Jonathan Keplinger, coordinator
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MAR 4 – Concert in ARTS 157 
UCR Choral Society 
Celebration of Life: Congressmen Elijah Cummings (1951-2019) and John Lewis (1940-) 
G. Edward Bruner, conductor                                     
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MAR 11 – Lecture in ARTS 157 
Eric Johns, Ph.D. candidate in musicology
Music and Race in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina
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::::::::::::::::::: SPRING 2020 :::::::::::::::::::

Wednesday@Noon via Zoom Series

Due to COVID 19, the Wednesday@Noon Zoom Series offers online concerts, lectures, and presentations of academic research by Department of Music faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and international guest artists and scholars. Deborah Wong, coordinator.

APR 8 – Zoom Lecture 
Rogerio Budasz, UCR Department of Music, Chair
Navigating class, race, and quality in a slave society: 
Opera companies in Mato Grosso and Rio de Janeiro, 1780-1820s
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APR 15 – Zoom Lecture
Bruce Alan Brown, Professor of Musicology, University of Southern California
The gargarismi of Lazzaro Paoli: Singing, Pharmacology, and Castration in Eighteenth-Century Tuscany
Rogério Budasz, organizer
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APR 22 – Zoom Recital
Sopranos Gisele Njoh Njoh and Ashley Silva  
From the Voice Studio of Dr. Camelia Voin
With Jonathan Keplinger, piano
Camelia Voin, organizer  
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MAY 6 – Zoom Recital
“Homenaje a Walter Clark”: A UCR Virtual Guitar Salon 
A live recital by classical guitarists and historical musicologists in the Department of Music doctoral program.
Jorge M. Calaf Vicario, coordinator
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MAY 13 – Zoom Live
Room To Spare
David Leach, piano and Julia Connor, violin
A live concert of their original music
Dana Kaufman, coordinator               
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MAY 27 – Zoom Presentation
Retirement Celebration in Honor of Prof. Rene T.A. Lysloff
“From Yogyakarta to Area 51:
A Celebration of René T.A. Lysloff’s Years at UCR”
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JUNE 3 – Zoom
Music Awards Ceremony and Student Performances
Rogerio Budasz, chair
Please join us and celebrate the accomplishments of our students!
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Information: performingarts@ucr.edu