Provost’s Visiting Scholar: George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music, Columbia University

Dates and Times for this Past Event

• Thursday, Apr 11, 2019  11 a.m.
• Wednesday, Apr 10, 2019  11 a.m.
• Tuesday, Apr 9, 2019  11 a.m.

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Details

Presented by the provost’s office in partnership with the College of the Arts, the School of Music, and CENCIA.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
11-12:30PM - Interdisciplinary Improvisation Symposium – “Improvisation as a Way of Life”– exploring the ways in which the study of improvisation as a practice of everyday life can lead to new models of intelligibility, agency, ethics, technology, and social transformationKopleff Recital Hall

3:30-5:00PM - Open rehearsal with Bent Frequency and composers George Lewis and Alvin Singleton
Kopleff Recital Hall

7:30PM
Bent Frequency presents: Anthem featuring works by George Lewis, Alvin Singleton, Anahita Abbasi, Eve Beglarian, Colette Coward, T.J. Anderson, and Emily Koh
Kopleff Recital Hall

Wednesday, April 10, 2019
4:00PM - George Lewis lecture on his book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
Troy Moore Library

Thursday, April 11, 2019
9:30-10:45AM - Lecture in Music Society and Culture: relation of the Africobra visual art movement to the music of the period (late 60s to the present)
Aderhold Learning Center
Room 333

3:30-4:30PM - George Lewis lecture on his music and artistic process. A Composition Seminar
Standard Room 400