FROM THE OUTER SPHERES TO THE INNER SENSES: FINDING VOICES IN MEDIEVAL SONG

Friday, February 10, 2023

1:30 pm

Segal Theatre

Open to the Public

A special performance by Concordian Dawn, ensemble for medieval music, with accompanying lecture by Sarah Kay (New York University)

RSVP to smcdougall@jjay.cuny.edu.

 

This collaborative event – part lecture, part concert – by medieval literary scholar Sarah Kay and early music ensemble Concordian Dawn, under director Christopher Preston Thompson, draws on the experimental book Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera (Kay) and its companion website of recordings (dir. Thompson). Together they find the sounds of medieval song in the least expected places: stars, the dawn light, the touch of a hand, beasts’ breath, and wild imaginings. The songs on their program range from the earliest alba to Machaut but their voices sound from the outer spheres to the inner senses.

Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. programs in Music & French & the Pearl Kibre Medieval Graduate Student Organization.

 

 

CUNY BYZANTINISTS ROUNDTABLE

Friday, February 10, 2023

4:00 pm

3408: Art History Student Lounge

Open to the Public

 

Featuring CUNY faculty: 

Jennifer Ball, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center

Christina Christoforatou, Baruch College

Eric Ivison, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center

Warren Woodfin, Queens College

 

Anyone not currently a student or faculty member at the Graduate Center should RSVP via email to Sara McDougall at smcdougall@jjay.cuny.edu.