Opera Opera Opera...

We're gonna watch an opera!
The confirmed information is the following:
-Friday 3 Sep, 7pm
-We will be in the Union
-It will be a modern-y opera

Information that is awaiting confirmation is:
-Doctor Atomic by Adams
-Room # in the Union. We won't know until that day but will repost. You can also look that day at this website, which will tell you everything you need to know.

So come and watch some opera with us, it will be exceptionally nerdy.

Reading Group: 20 Aug 1pm

Yes, indeed, we will be reading an article and talking about it as we are wont to do.
This week's article is:
"Musicology and Fiction" by Michael Saffle.
A pdf of the article will be available here.

The place will be barriques again and the time is 1pm on Friday, 20 August.

See you all there...

Reading Group 28 July

Hi again,
So we have a new reading this week.
Edward Roesner, "Who 'Made' the 'Magnus Liber'?" Early Music History 20 (2001): 227-266.

We will be having the same time as last week: Wednesday, 28 July, 6:30pm
and the same place: Barriques Downtown.

The reading can be found here.

Reading Group 7-21, 6:30pm

After a blogging hiatus I would like announce our next reading group.
It will be a new type for us: a reading-listening-score-study session, which isn't as scary as it sounds, but should be fascinating.

We will be listening to the following pieces with scores:

György Kurtág, Officium Breve
Alfred Schnittke, String Quartet No. 3

Accompanying these will be the following two short articles:
Alan E. Williams, "Kurtág, Modernity, Modernisms," Contemporary Music Review 20, nos. 2/3, (2001), 51-69.
Alfred Schnittke, "Polystylistic Tendencies in Modern Music" in A Schnittke Reader, Alexander Ivashkin, ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), 87-90.

The readings, scores and sound files will be available here:

https://sites.google.com/site/uwgamsa/reading-group-files

Also on the agenda will be discussing a proposed concert series involving composers, performers and musicologists/theorists, etc.
The general idea will be to present new music in a format that is informative and accessible. So please come with ideas to help us get started.

When: Wed, 21 July, 6:30pm
Where: Barriques Coffee Trader, 147 W. Washington

Reading Group - Thursday 6-10, 1 pm

Come join us for another reading in our continuing series... aka, Boozicology.

We will be meeting this Thursday at 1pm at Barriques in downtown Madison.
Our article this week is:

Richard Leppert, "Music, Representation, and Social Order in Early-Modern Europe." Cultural Critique 12, Discursive Strategies and the Economy of Prestige (Spring, 1989): 25-55.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1354321

Workshop on Job Applications and Cover Letters - Friday 3/19 at 4PM

UW-Madison School of Music Assistant Director Keith Hampton will give an informal workshop on academic job applications and writing cover letters.

Location: 5th Floor Lounge, Humanities Building, UW-Madison

UW-Madison School of Music Colloquium

Daniel Barolsky, Assistant Professor of Music, Beloit College giving a talk titled "'Wohin?' Transcribing Poetry Into Performance," this Friday, March 5 at 4:00 PM, in room 1641 Humanities.

More information about Prof. Barolsky's talk and upcoming Colloquia can be found at:

http://som-colloquium.blogspot.com/