Daniel Harrison Music Lecture
When: Friday, April 25, 2008, 10 a.m.
Where: Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive, Lawrence
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: KU calendar, Lectures, Classical
Description: The KU Department of Music & Dance welcomes Daniel Harrison, the Allen Forte professor of music theory and chair of the Department of Music at Yale University, to KU Thursday and Friday, April 24-25, 2008. Harrison will visit KU to give two music lectures at Murphy Hall.
On Thursday, April 24, at 10:00 a.m., Harrison will discuss "From Practice to Theory," a general-audience lecture that will chronicle his professional path from church organist and player in a steel-drum band to professor at the prestigious Yale University.
On Friday, April 25, at 10:00 a.m., Harrison will discuss "Dissonant Tonics and Contemporary Tonality." This is an advanced lecture that will highlight the topic a topic of music theory, working with passages by Emil Waldteufel, Eubie Blake, Kurt Weill, Maurice Durufl, Bela Bartok, Sergei Prokofiev and Darius Milhaud.
Thursday's lecture takes place in Swarthout Recital Hall and Friday's lecture in room 440, Murphy Hall. Both are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Department of Music & Dance in the School of Fine Arts at 785-864-3436.
Event posted April 18, 2008
Last updated April 18, 2008
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