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New Directions: Beyond the Notes
- Improvisation Across Musical Styles
- Film Noir: Alfred Hitchcock-The Director and His Music
- Body-Mind Techniques for Audition, Rehearsal, Performance
- The Music at Tanglewood: Summer 2008
Improvisation Across Musical Styles
Jeffrey Goldberg, instructor
Session I: June 9 -27; Session II: July 7-24 (six meetings per session)
MTh: 6-7:30pm
Classical, jazz, avant-garde, and other world musics: improvisation is the heart and soul of communicating effectively in the languages of music. Learn to play the music "behind the notes" in notated traditions, while developing your own creativity, expanding your powers of self-expression. Students will celebrate the world of musical creation, while exploring melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and dramatic possibilities in styles of the past and present (Mozart, Ellington, Cage, West African traditions)."Beginner's mind" is welcome, as is a willingness to explore the unknown. Open to singers and instrumentalists. For additional information, contact the instructor at 617-628-1073 or at jeffrey_goldberg@post.harvard.edu.
Note: Students may sign up for either or both sessions
Non-credit: $145 per session
Film Noir: Alfred Hitchcock-The Director and His Music
Ran Blake
June 12, 14-15: The English Period
Th: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
SaSu: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. and 6:00-9:00 p.m.
June 19, 21-22: The American Period
Th: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
SaSu: 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. and 6:00 -9:00 p.m.
Alfred Hitchcock is probably the 20th century's most celebrated director of mysteries and thrillers, but many of his best films are more complex: there lurk dark corridors filled with guilt transference, the persecution of the innocent (the "wrong man") and the noir aesthetic. Ran Blake will also focus on the music: from Poulenc to circus rags, from the semi-atonal to English pop, a whole world of sound fascinates the movie viewer. Students in the course are encouraged to participate musically by composing and improvising on the plots, themes, characters and shadows of the works of this great director.
Schedule of films (subject to change)
The English Period (June 12, 14-15)
The Lodger
Blackmail The 39 Steps
S
ABOTAGE
Young and Innocent,
Jamaica Inn
The American Period (June 19, 21-22)
Shadow of a Doubt
Spellbound & Notorious
Paradine Case & Rope
Strangers on a Train
I Confess
Per weekend: 1 UG/G credit: $1000/$2000
Discounted tuition rate for Session I & II combined (2 UG/G credits): $1700/$3400
Per weekend: 1 SCE credit: $500
Discounted tuition rate for Sessions I & II combined (2 SCE credits): $850
Body-Mind Techniques for Audition, Rehearsal, and Performance
Jeffrey Goldberg
Session I: June 21-22 (two days)
Session II: July 12-13
(two days)
SaSu: 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m; 2:00 -5:00 p.m.
Open to teens and adults of all ranges of musical experience. The course presents techniques for overcoming audition and performance jitters, for being fully centered in performance and rehearsal, for dealing with other musicians of very different temperaments, for preventing physical strains and mental distractions, and for being more fully present in the creation and presentation of music. The class considers both the process and the content of the music itself. Combining their own repertoire with mind-body techniques (posture, breath work, chi gong, movement exercises, practical methods), participants explore specific pieces of music while practicing ways of balancing the physical and mental pathways through which music flows. Note: For more information, contact the instructor at 617-628-1073 or at jeffrey_goldberg@post.harvard.edu.
Non-credit: $285
The Music at Tanglewood: Summer 2008 •
Dr. Brett Abigaña, instructor
July 8-August 6 (five meetings)
Tu, July 8, 15, 22, 29; W, August 6: 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Boston is fortunate to be closely affiliated with Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and one of the premier summer music academies for aspiring musicians throughout the world. The course is a series of pre-concert lectures focusing of the music one may hear in any given week this summer at Tanglewood. The class will emphasize those pieces of special interest historically, musically and aesthetically, culminating with an overview of Tanglewood's Contemporary Music Festival. Each session will feature some background of the works presented through discussion of the composer's life and circumstances at the time, the aesthetic and historical influences on the composers, and listening and basic analysis of excerpts of the works in question.
July 8: Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Symphony No. 6, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection"), Haydn's Symphony No. 104.
July 15: Brahms' String Quartets, Harbison's Symphony No. 5, Mahler's Symphony No. 1 ("Titan") Copland's Symphony No. 3
July 22: Carter's Boston Concerto and Three Illusions for Orchestra, Brahms'Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 3, Music for the Movies, Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
July 29: Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Chausson's Poéme, Mussorgsky/Ravel's Pictures at an Exhibition, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.
August 6: Tanglewood's 2008 Contemporary Music Festival.
In addition to these works, students may request a discussion of other works (with one week's notice and at Dr. Abigaña's discretion.) Note: The final class will take place on Wednesday August 6, so as not to conflict with Tanglewood on Parade on Tuesday, August 5.
Non-credit: $295
• appropriate for adults with general music background