Classical guitar fireworks will be on display at the Arizona Senior Academy on Tuesday (June 2) when Misael Barraza Diaz appears in concert at 11:30 a.m. The program will showcase some of the most technically challenging writing for guitar, including works by Miguel Lloret, Manuel de Falla, Joaquin Rodrigo, Alberto Ginastera, and contemporary...
Professor Monica J. Casper, recently appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, will be at Academy Village on Thursday (May 28) at 3:30 to speak about “The Rise of New Social Movements.” Casper describes herself, among other things, as “sociologist, teacher, feminist, mother, crusader for...
African American spiritual music became a tremendously popular genre during the opening decades of the 20th century. The songs became a staple for American performers of all ethnicities as the music crossed from the folk music sphere into classical and popular music. At 3:30 p.m. Wednesday (May 28), Brian Moon, an associate professor of music at...
The award-winning Ellington Big Band will pay a return visit to the Arizona Senior Academy on Tuesday (May 26) for a mid-day concert designed to delight listeners with big-band jazz numbers from the 1920s through the 1950s. “This should be a really eclectic concert,” said Doug Tidaback, the band’s director. “The oldest piece we’ll play is ‘Cotton...
Folk singer Pamela Reinagel will perform a concert of unaccompanied ballads memorializing the First World War. In this centennial memorial program, she will sing several unaccompanied folk ballads about the war and talk about the history that they illustrate. Her lecture-concert will begin at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 21, in the Great Room of the...
Chamber ensembles that explore different musical timbres are providing interesting variety and contrasts to delight the ears of Arizona Senior Academy audiences these days. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday (May 19) the Academy will present another distinctive palette of musical colors in a performance by the Presidio Saxophone Quartet. Since its founding in...
UA Engineering Student Team Members (from left): Alex Warren, Rachel Powers, Thomas Schucker, Jeremy Hibbs, Jesse Odle, and Travis Kibler. The University of Arizona stresses real-world projects for engineering students to work on for their senior “capstone” projects. One of the 57 interdisciplinary student teams this year, sponsored by the...
On Wednesday (May 13) at 3:30 p.m., Dawn Corso will give the second lecture in the Arizona Senior Academy series, “Ethnomusicology: Music in a Cultural Context.” With audio and video clips as aides, she will describe the ways in which young African-American girls, ages 6 to 12, learned music and dance moves in a Tucson elementary school and...
Klezmopolitan Members (from left): Jeff Holsen, Jay Vosk, Michael Fan, and Matt Mitchell A band featuring some of Tucson’s finest musicians will return to the Arizona Senior Academy on Tuesday (May 12) for a lively 11:30 a.m. performance. The Klezmopolitans are: Jay Vosk, clarinet, Matt Mitchell, guitar, Jeff Holsen, double-bass, and Michael Fan...
Dan Kruse is a familiar voice at Arizona Public Media, serving as the local host of All Things Considered. Kruse is also well known to the Arizona Senior Academy from prior presentations concerning, among other subjects, the history of rock and roll, the mysteries of ethnomusicology, and his fascination and affection for the snare drum. On...
