[AMS-announce] CONF: Music Futures: Defining a new place for music studies, Tufts U., Boston, Feb 2 2007

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MUSIC FUTURES: DEFINING A NEW PLACE FOR MUSIC STUDIES
A Symposium in Celebration of the Opening of the Perry and Marty Granoff
Music Center at Tufts University

Friday, February 2, 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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For more information or to register contact Jessica Shepard in the Provost's
Office at (617) 627-3931 or jessica.shepard at tufts.edu. Space is limited for
this symposium so please call and reserve your spot.

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All aspects of our musical lives are undergoing profound transformations.
Globalization, changing social structures, new media and technologies,
insights from cognitive neuroscience, and new understandings of music's role
in the formation of culture and identity, are presenting extraordinary
challenges and opportunities for music educators, scholars, composers, and
performers.
What are the skills, methodologies, and theoretical models students will
need in the coming decades to become active and engaged members and leaders
of their local and global musical communities? How can new partnerships
between musical disciplines, institutions, and organizations respond
productively to the changing musical landscape?

As we plan for the future of our department of music in its new home, Tufts
University invites you to join music leaders from Boston and surrounding
areas to explore these issues and to consider new possibilities for the
place of music in the university and the broader life of the community.

2 - 3 PM: Opening Reception and Guided Tours of the Perry and Marty Granoff
Music Center

3 - 4 PM: Panel I: A New Place for Music at Tufts
Members of the Tufts Department of Music and Affiliated Faculty
Vickie B. Sullivan, Dean for Academic Affairs, Arts and Sciences
Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice President

4 - 4:15 PM: Break

4:15 - 6 PM: Panel II: Music Futures

Opening Remarks: Don Randel, President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Panel to include:
Maure Aronson, Executive Director of World Music
Evan Bennett, Director of Music, The Walnut Hill School
Katherine Bergeron, Dean of the College and Professor of Musicology, Brown
University
Roger H. Brown, President, Berklee College of Music
Robert Kemble Dodson, Provost, New England Conservatory,
Jeremy Eichler, classical music critic, The Boston Globe
Anthony Fogg, Artistic Administrator of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Reebee Garafalo, College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston
André de Quadros, Director of the School of Music, Artistic Director
Tanglewood Institute, Boston University
Gottfried Schlaug, M.D.,Director, Neuroimaging Laboratory, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical
School
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Harvard University, Professor of Ethnomusicology
Anthony Trecek-King, Artistic Director, Boston Children's Chorus

For more information :
http://www.tufts.edu/musiccenter/events/symposium.html