Presented By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance
In the Archives, A Lifetime Making Connections for African Diasporic Music: Scholarship, Performance, and Entrepreneurship - Dr. Louise Toppin
Musicology Research Colloquium
In this first event in our new series of “Hands-On Research” presentations, Dr. Louise Toppin, Director and Principal Investigator of the African Diaspora Music Project, explores strategies for envisioning and investigating underexplored areas of musical inquiry. Her talk will focus on how to locate, identify, and properly describe primary sources for music of the international African Diaspora, including the African American art song repertory. Professor Toppin will explain the range of distinctive features of this repertory and the challenges to its transcription, editing, and publication encountered by scholars on her collaborative research team. The research of the African Diaspora Music Project produces important audible results through the concerts and recordings organized, produced, sponsored, and promoted by Videmus, her non-profit arts organization committed to educational and collaborative projects focused on the music of African Americans, Women, and other under-represented composers.
Dr. Louise Toppin, University of Michigan Professor of Music (Voice), has lectured on the music of African American composers for the Society for American Music, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the American Cultural Association, the National Association of Negro Music, NASPAM, and has given colloquia on college campuses including Harvard, Tufts, and Duke. She has also appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered (Margaret Bonds). A coloratura soprano, Dr. Toppin has received critical acclaim for her operatic, orchestral, and oratorio performances internationally. Her operatic roles include the title role in the world premiere of the opera Luyala by William Banfield, Treemonisha in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, Mary in William Grant Still’s Highway One, Maria in the world premiere of Joel Feigin’s opera Twelfth Night, the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Clara in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. She has recorded seventeen compact disks of American music. Before joining UM faculty in 2017, Toppin was the Kappa Kappa Gamma Distinguished University Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
watch online at https://myumi.ch/WJpqw
Meeting ID: 966 7281 1100
Passcode: 441676
Dr. Louise Toppin, University of Michigan Professor of Music (Voice), has lectured on the music of African American composers for the Society for American Music, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the American Cultural Association, the National Association of Negro Music, NASPAM, and has given colloquia on college campuses including Harvard, Tufts, and Duke. She has also appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered (Margaret Bonds). A coloratura soprano, Dr. Toppin has received critical acclaim for her operatic, orchestral, and oratorio performances internationally. Her operatic roles include the title role in the world premiere of the opera Luyala by William Banfield, Treemonisha in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, Mary in William Grant Still’s Highway One, Maria in the world premiere of Joel Feigin’s opera Twelfth Night, the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Magic Flute, Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Clara in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. She has recorded seventeen compact disks of American music. Before joining UM faculty in 2017, Toppin was the Kappa Kappa Gamma Distinguished University Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
watch online at https://myumi.ch/WJpqw
Meeting ID: 966 7281 1100
Passcode: 441676
Cost
- Free and open to all - online only
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