UC Santa Barbara University Carillonist Wesley Arai will present a recital from the carillon in UC Santa Barbara's Storke Tower on Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 2 pm. Listeners are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on the grass outside the tower during the recital.

 

As part of UCSB Ethnomusicology Forum, Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara) will present a lecture titled "Music in the Medieval Mediterranean" on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 from 3:30-4:45 pm in Music Library Seminar Room 2406. Why were musicians and singers able to move through different regions of the medieval Mediterranean so easily? What types of cultural interactions took place before the construction of ‘national cultures’ and before Western Europe defined itself as the center of the world? Using concepts that have emerged in recent years in the field of Mediterranean Studies, these and other questions are explored by examining the spread of new musical instruments, scholarly writings on music theory, the travels of musicians and singers, and contemporary accounts of musical performance practices from the period between Late Antiquity and the European Renaissance.

 

Graduate vocalist Valdis Jansons (baritone) will present a doctoral recital with pianist Dr. Natasha Kislenko (Continuing Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara) on Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 4:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus. The program will include works by Richard Wagner, Modest Mussorgsky, Henri Duparc, Roger Quilter, Antonio De Curtis, Ernesto De Curtis, Salvatore Cardillo, and Enrico Cannio. Jansons is a student of Associate Professor Isabel Bayrakdarian.

 

Students from UC Santa Barbara University Carillonist Wesley Arai's studio will present a recital from the carillon in UC Santa Barbara's Storke Tower on Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 10 am. Listeners are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on the grass outside the tower during the recital.