A mini-concert finale to Finding the Spirit of Inanga: A Gallery of African Musical Instruments at Olin Library Friday, February 28th, 2025 12:00pmSmith Reading Room, Olin Memorial LibraryFree and open to the public RSVP for the mini-concert Join us as we celebrate the past year of Finding the Spirit of Inanga: A Gallery of African … Read more
Monday, February 3, 2025 at noon Gribbel Room 202A, 2nd floor Olin Library, 252 Church Street, Middletown Free and open to the public Artists Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty present a talk at the closing of their sound installation Minute/Year (2016–present), which was installed in Olin Library throughout 2024. The U.S. premiere of the work … Read more
A staircase performance by MUSC 300 11/11/11 AM Olin Library | Music Staircase ‘Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears’, instructed Pauline Oliveros, in her Sonic Meditationsfrom 1970. As well as pushing at disciplinary, social, and institutional boundaries, the experimental initiatives of the 1960s and ’70s sought to cultivate greater sensory … Read more
Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 12-1 pmGribbel Room 202A, 2nd floor Olin Library Join us for a lunchtime concert with Dr. Karaikudi S. Subramanian, a ninth-generation vīṇā player from the renowned Karaikudi tradition, founder of the Brhaddhvani Research & Training Centre for Musics of the World, and Wesleyan alumnus (MA Music, 1977; PhD Ethnomusicology, 1985). … Read more
Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 3-4 pmGribbel Room 202A, 2nd floor Olin Library Renowned Burundian musician Steven Sogo will perform at Wesleyan on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 from 3-4 pm. His visit has been arranged by Chance Kinyange, MA’25, founder of the PVD World Music Institute (Providence, RI) and curator of the current exhibition in … Read more
Friday, May 24, 2024, 2-3pm Olin Library 014 The World Music Archives & Music Library at Wesleyan University, in collaboration with PVD World Music Institute (Providence, RI), is currently hosting the exhibition Finding the Spirit of Inanga: Musical Instruments from Africa in Olin Library. Come see and hear some of the instruments up close, and learn … Read more
Open House ▪ Installations ▪ Exhibitions Olin Library – 252 Church Street As part of NuMusWes24, explore the depth and breadth of Wesleyan’s music collections and installations: John Cage’s books and papers, African musical instruments, medieval manuscripts and early printed music, graphic and textual scores, and archives, recordings, and images of experimental music at Wesleyan, … Read more
Please join us! Mohammad Geldi Geldi Nejad, known as “Oghlan Bakhshi,” a master of the dutar, a two-stringed lute, and an epic bard, will introduce a digital project based on a decade of study in Turkmenistan and fieldwork among Northern Khorasan bards during the summer of 2022 in Iran. He will also perform some Turkmen … Read more
Please join us for a lunch-time exhibition opening on Friday, April 5, at 12:00 noon of Finding the Spirit of Inanga: A Gallery of African Musical Instruments, a project curated by music graduate student Chance Kinyange. A collaborative effort between Providence, RI-based PVD World Music Institute and Wesleyan’s World Music Archives & Music Library, Finding … Read more
Music of Central Asia Kazakh songs and instrumental tunes Concert by students of the Central Asian Music Ensemble tutorial taught by Assistant Professor of Music Saida Daukeyeva and visiting artists from Kazakhstan, Raushan Orazbaeva, Rüstem Nurkenov, and Zhaina Zharmukhametova Friday, December 1, 2023, 12:30-1:30 pmSmith Room, Olin LibraryFREE
