Ithaca College

THE ITHACA MUSIC FORUM is proud to present our first event of the 2017/18 year: Dr. Ellie Hisama (Columbia University) on “'A Complex Dissonant Veil of Sound': Influence and Independence in Ruth Crawford’s Chants for Women’s Chorus” 

This talk will be especially relevant to students and faculty interested in choral repertoires, pedagogy, 20th-century music, women and music, theory, and American modernism.  (I think that a lot of us fall somewhere into that Venn diagram…)

  PLEASE pass this invitation along to your students; the talks last year were a big success, and this year we hope to do even better.  More info (and RSVP) at https://www.facebook.com/events/1940923542791217/   Friday, Sept. 29th, 5pm McHenry Lounge (4th floor) A reception with drinks and snacks will follow This event is free and open to the public   Dr. Hisama, Professor of Music at Columbia University, is Director of the Institute for Studies in American Music, and  is author of Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. She co-edited the volumes Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music. Dr. Hisama specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, post-tonal theory, American music, popular music, gender and feminist studies, critical studies of music and race, and the social and political roles of music.