Department of Performing Arts

Future of Music Policy Summit 2009
October 4-6, 2009
The Georgetown University Music Program hosts and co-sponsors the Future of Music (FMC) Coalition's multi-faceted, multi-media 2009 Policy Summit.  Since 2001, FMC has organized seven Policy Summits, each bringing together a spectacular mixture of technologists, attorneys, musicians, managers and industry leaders for compelling and thought-provoking discussions about issues that affect the future of music and the artists who will create it.

This year's events include practical, musician-focused workshops, keynotes from leading artists, managers and policymakers and inspired panel discussions with the sharpest minds in the music/technology space.  Read more about the panelists and scheduled events here.

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Brazilian Improvisation
November 20, 2009 at 7 pm
New North Building, McNeir Hall
Presented by the Department of Performing Arts and the Brazilian Studies Program

The Brazilian Studies Program is pleased to announce a performance by Cliff Korman, a member of the faculty at Manhattan School of Music, and a highly accomplished performer and composer of Brazilian jazz. He has recorded and performed with many great Brazilian musicians, including with Paulo Moura, Mauricio Einhorn, Toninho Horta, Nelson Faria and many others. He will be joined by Leonardo Lucini on bass, David Saks on trombone, Jonas Durante on drums, and Pablo de Oliveira on cavaco, each a leading Brazilian musician in Washington DC. They will perform standards from the choro repertoire along with some of Korman's own compositions, in a setting favoring improvisation and musical dialogue.  Cliff Korman will also be playing as part of the Friday Music Series.

FREE

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Trionfo per l’Assunzione della Santissima Vergine
Composed by Nicolò Ceva
December 3, 2009 at 8 pm
Wolfington Hall, Jesuit Residence
Presented by the Department of Performing Arts and performed by Georgetown students and guest artists

This event is the culmination of the music seminar entitled Music Theory and Performance, which is an in-depth study of Baroque musical and artistic culture. The vocalists and continuo player are Georgetown University students who will be accompanied by local professionals.

FREE

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Songspiel
January 15 and 16 at 8 p.m.
January 17 at 2 p.m.
Davis Performing Arts Center, Gonda Theatre
Presented in association with American Opera Theater

One of America’s most renowned sopranos, two-time Grammy Award winner Sylvia McNair performs in Songspiel, a new American Opera Theater production designed just for her. Songspiel combines Kurt Weill’s most famous songs into a soul-searching exploration of a struggling nation's pains and triumphs. In this hard-hitting and powerful production, the splendor of McNair’s voice and Weill’s music blend together in a tale of one woman's confrontation with homelessness and economic crisis.

$45 general / $35 faculty, staff, senior / $10 student

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Interpreting Liszt
Friday, February 12 &
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Evening events at Georgetown University (37th and O Streets NW)
in Gaston Hall (3rd floor of the Healy Building)
Liszt Conference in McNeir Hall (New North Building)
A Post-Classical Ensemble Festival in collaboration with Georgetown University's Department of Performing Arts, exploring new perspectives on Romantic art and the Romantic artistic personality.


Friday, February 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Liszt and Italy

Saturday, February 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Angels and Devils
(Illustrated pre-concert talk on Totentanz by Anna Celenza at 6:30 p.m.)

February 12 from 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. and
February 13 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

“ An astonishing blend of muscular power, poetry and
utter control—one of the more formidable talents
to have appeared in this country in years”
-The American Record Guide on Mykola Suk