Research Seminar: Bonnie McConnell
Seminar
Singing the Rain: Kanyeleng Performers and Climate Change Adaptation in the Gambia Bonnie McConnell Sheikh Omar Jallow In the Gambia, kanyeleng fertility society performers possess special knowledge about environmental wellbeing that includes a repertoire of rainmaking songs performed in…
‘Global Punk’ • Punk Scholars Network – Australia / Aotearoa Branch Conference 2020
Conference
Punk is a truly global phenomenon that manifests in myriad ways in different scenes, political regimes, cultural contexts and individual experiences. Punk is many things to many people and seldom remains static over a lifetime. Increased globalisation, changes in connectivity and technology, and…
ANU Orchestra in Concert
Performance
Join the ANU Orchestra as well as musicians from the Canberra Symphony Orchestra as we return live to the Llewellyn Hall stage! Conducted by Max McBride, the Orchestra will play a program of: Brahms - Academic Festival Overture op.80 Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no.2 Soloist:…
ANU Flute Day 2020
Workshop
ANU School of Music presents its 2020 Flute Day - All together, no screens, COVID-safe.“As evidenced from our final concert, you still have a straight line from the highest level to where you first began…We were driven by the belief that the youngest students also deserve the greatest…
Research Seminar: Dr Edward Neeman
Seminar
Debussy’s Children’s Corner: Parody or Homage?Hidden behind the outward charm of the six pieces that make up Claude Debussy’s Children’s Corner lie hidden references to fellow composers Muzio Clementi, Jules Massenet, and Richard Wagner. Was Debussy merely poking fun at his colleagues, or was he…
Research Seminar: John Mackey
Seminar
Theorizing Improvisation – Reducing Unpredictability or Uncertainty in relation to ‘Outside Playing’ My PhD research focusses on the development of improvisatory vocabulary utilizing the pentatonic scale in a chromatic and anagrammatic system of permutated structures. The effect of this system…