Music History & Musicology

Department
Music History & Technology at SCE

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Florence Price
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Nevertheless, She Persisted: The Homecoming of Florence B. Price
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NEC: Pierce Hall

Musicologist John Michael Cooper and pianist Lara Downes will present a lecture-recital of unpublished works by Florence B. Price, an NEC composition/organ alum and the first African-American woman to...

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Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol Faculty Recital: Jews and Sufis
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NEC: Jordan Hall

Since at least the 16th century, the Turkish maftirim repertoire – Hebrew devotional poetry set to Turkish makam music for use in the synagogue – demonstrates the deep relationships Ottoman Jews...

Nicholas Kitchen
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Nicholas Kitchen & Sean Gallagher Duo
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NEC: Jordan Hall
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Profile
Scott Metcalfe

Scott Metcalfe is the director of Blue Heron, acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and the winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for...

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Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol's “Othello in the Seraglio” Released for Streaming
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This “coffeehouse opera” was created by alumnus and faculty member Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol ’00 MM, ’04 DMA.
Sean Gallagher faculty profile
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Music History Faculty Sean Gallagher Inducted to Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars
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Gallagher is the first musician or music historian to be elected to the Society in its 52-year history.
Frank Battisti, Veronica Jochum, John Moriarty, Gregory Smith
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First Honorees in NEC's New Faculty Emeriti Program
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Frank Battisti, Veronica Jochum, John Moriarty, and Gregory Smith will be honored as Faculty Emeriti at Commencement 2019.
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Film Screening of “Othello in the Seraglio: The Tragedy of Sümbül the Black Eunuch”
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NEC: Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

Othello in the Seraglio, a uniquely powerful “coffeehouse opera,” tells an age-old story of passionate love and murderous jealousy, of a black slave at the 17th century Ottoman Court who rises to...

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Music, Sound & Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation
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NEC: Pierce Hall

Presented by the 2050 Forum, the Intercultural Institute, and the Music History Department—a roundtable discussion with Jeff Todd Titon on the future of music & sound in the face of climate disruption...