Friday, May 22, 2026 1-2 p.m.
Olin Memorial Library, Gribbel Room, Room 202A
Julius Eastman (1940-1990) was a queer Black composer whose music and ideas went under-appreciated during his lifetime. Only recently has his work started to reach wider audiences, but even today it is under-listened-to and seldom-discussed outside of New Music and Avant-Garde circles. Join Omri Riss Chbarbi ’26 for a chance to experience Eastman’s music and voice together with contextual notes from Omri’s archival research to spark conversation. Through close listening to Omri’s performance of Eastman’s work Buddha (1984), attendees will explore Eastman’s compositional ideas and how this piece, alongside the rest of Eastman’s oeuvre, resists categorization. The session will incorporate Omri’s research for his recently completed honors thesis, Listening Plurally: The Limits of Category in Julius Eastman’s Buddha (1984), and will similarly resist presenting a definitive story about Eastman’s life or work.
VIEW: Omri’s senior recital.
Sponsored by the World Music Archives & Music Library.