USC Collegium Musicum presents "Sing Joyfully: The Music of William Byrd" In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of English composer William Byrd Directed by Jason Yoshida With a pre-concert lecture on the music of William Byrd by Dr. Kerry McCarthy at 7:00pm Sponsored by EMSI Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall in the USC Brain […]
Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration is a multi-faceted project to address the erasure of the identities of individuals of Japanese ancestry who experienced wartime incarceration and to expand the concept of what monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as a monument (Ireichō), a website as a monument (Ireizō), […]
Irei: National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration is a multi-faceted project to address the erasure of the identities of individuals of Japanese ancestry who experienced wartime incarceration and to expand the concept of what monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as a monument (Ireichō), a website as a monument (Ireizō), […]
Review of Book Manuscript by Prof. Mengxiao Wang (Performing Enlightenment:How Buddhists Reinvented Theater in Early Modern China). Two external reviewers will be present alongside USC faculty and students who are interested in the subject. Manuscript will be available one month before the event. RSVPis required. For more info, contact sonyasle@usc.edu .
USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia presents "From Heaven on High: Christmas Music of the German Baroque Era" featuring music by Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Rosenmüller, and Dietrich Buxtehude. Directed by Rotem Gilbert and Jason Yoshida Sponsored by EMSI
Opera Prima Ensemble, founded by famed viola da gamba virtuoso Cristiano Contadin, and celebrated soprano Amanda Forsythe present a historically informed performance of Tormento Seicento: Love and Torment in the Music of Monteverdi, Rossi, Merula, Caccini at Pomona College's "Little Bridges" Hall. To join a pre-concert event at 4pm at Pomona College, please email Malachai.Bandy@pomona.edu .
A new film about the sixteenth-century Duke of Florence, Alessandro de' Medici, known as Alessandro il Moro. Co-sponsored by Civic Imagination, the Center for the Premodern World, the Levan Institute for the Humanities, the Department of French and Italian, and the Early Modern Studies Institute.
Musician/musicologist and Pomona College professor Malachai Bandy and USC playwright Oliver Mayer discuss a new play Mayer is writing about German Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude. An introduction to Buxtehude's life and work; a table read of the play in progress, and a discussion about how to integrate music and dramatic action in future workshop performances.
The critical grammatological theory of images focuses on the question of how a-visible phenomena – such as the mind and the soul, emotions, transcendental ideas and figures – or acts of adoration or discrimination get re/presented as images. Departing from the govern- ing maxim of Derrida’s Of Grammatology “Il faut penser la trace avant l’étant”, it is […]
Day 1: Friday, March 1, 2024 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Hoose Library of Philosophy, 2nd floor (201), Mudd Hall of Philosophy (MHP) 3709 Trousdale Parkway, University of Southern California Register Note: Day 1 will only be held in person at USC and will not be broadcast on Zoom. Full schedule below Day 2: Saturday, March 2, 2024 […]
Thornton Baroque Sinfonia directed by Adam Knight Gilbert and Jason Yoshida Featuring the music of Rafael Antonio Castellanos, music of the Missions of California and songs of the Mexican Son jarocho tradition with singer David Morales, and Guest Ensemble Son Tios (Jorge Andresge Herrera, Federico Zúñiga, Victor Murillo, and Laura Cambron) This concert will present music from the […]