Category: Beyond the Notes

  • Musings on Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and “Celtic Music”

    Musings on Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and “Celtic Music”

    Beyond the Notes presents Exploring Beethoven’s Scottish Folk Song Arrangements—Demystifying an Enigma  Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 12:00 PM Charles Library Event Space Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given. All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. Our final Beyond the Notes concert of the 2023–2024 season features a curious sampling…

  • The Timeless Resonance of the Cello

    The Timeless Resonance of the Cello

    Beyond the Notes presents Unaccompanied Cello from Bach to the Grateful Dead Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 12:00 PM Charles Library Event Space Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given. All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. The cello, with its rich and varied timbre, has captivated audiences for centuries. Originating…

  • Beyond the Notes: A Visual Music Sampler

    Beyond the Notes: A Visual Music Sampler

    Beyond the Notes presents A Visual Music Sampler Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 12:00 PM Charles Library Event Space Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given. All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. Join Boyer Professor of Music and composer Maurice Wright in a presentation of electronic music, live performance, and…

  • From “Fortunate Son” to “The Ballad of the Green Berets”: The Vietnam War in Song

    From “Fortunate Son” to “The Ballad of the Green Berets”: The Vietnam War in Song

    Temple University Libraries presents “Can You Get Anything You Want? The Complicated Story of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’“ A Conversation, Performance, and Singalong Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 3:30 PM Charles Library Event Space Light refreshments served. All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. The Vietnam War was a tumultuous period in American…

  • Beyond the Notes: Folio + Phantasma featuring Relâche Ensemble

    Beyond the Notes: Folio + Phantasma featuring Relâche Ensemble

    Beyond the Notes presents Folio + Phantasma featuring Relâche Ensemble Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 12:00 PM Charles Library Event Space Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given. All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. In recognition of National Epilepsy Awareness Month, Beyond the Notes presents a performance by  Relâche Ensemble…

  • Phillis Wheatley: The First Published African-American Poet

    Phillis Wheatley: The First Published African-American Poet

    Beyond the Notes presents Songs of the People: A Celebration of Women Composers from the African Diaspora Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 12:00 PM Charles Library Event Space Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given. All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Sally Hemings…these names of famous…

  • An Interview with Composer Ashley Reneé Seward.

    An Interview with Composer Ashley Reneé Seward.

    Beyond the Notes presents Women Composers of Song from Around the World Presented by A Modern Reveal Wednesday, March 15, 2022, 12:00 PM Charles Library Event Space Featuring Boyer College of Music vocal studies students and collaborative pianist Gabriel Rebolla Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given. All programs are free and open to all,…

  • Remembering Holocaust Survivor Composer Herbert Zipper

    Remembering Holocaust Survivor Composer Herbert Zipper

    Beyond the Notes presentsThe Final Waltz Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 12:00 PMCharles Library Event Space Performers:Daniel Neer, baritoneMarta Zaliznyak ’21, sopranoAriana Grace ’24, sopranoGabriel Rebolla, piano Light refreshments served. Boyer recital credit given.All programs are free and open to all, and registration is encouraged. In remembrance of the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht–“the night of broken glass” when…

  • Piano Music of Protest

    Piano Music of Protest

    Presenting a program of seven works from as early as 1831, Charles Abramovic and his students will be performing compositions for solo piano inspired by protest or directed toward oppressive forces across the globe.  Whether remembering the causes classical composers brought awareness to, or a continuing matter to bring attention to, performing these pieces not…

  • RESCHEDULED: ENAensemble Presents The Celestial

    RESCHEDULED: ENAensemble Presents The Celestial

    The concert originally planned for 9/14/2022 of new music performed by ENAensemble has been rescheduled for January 25, 2023. We hope to see you there! Beyond the NotesWednesday, January 25, 12:00PMPerformers: Sopranos: Megnot Toggia, Marcelle McGurik, & Ayanna Freelon  Flute: Chelsey Meynig  Guitar: Thomas Schuttenhelm Cello: Leigh Brown  Conductor: Evan Kassof  With new works by…