Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Carillon Student & Alumni Showcase (June 21, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84274 84274-21620839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 21, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students and recent alumni Kevin Lieberman, Abigail Findley, and Xiaoying Pu perform the first summer concert of 2021 to kick off the 2021 concert series, held this year in memory of Ray McLellan. Bring your picnic blanket to Ingalls Mall!

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:

Abigail Findley grew up in San Diego, California and the Houston, Texas area, where she began playing piano and clarinet. In 2020, she began taking carillon lessons at the University of Michigan, from which she graduated in 2021 with a B.A. in Biopsychology, Cognition, & Neuroscience, and a minor in Music.

Kevin Lieberman is a Robotics PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan. He has studied carillon for three semesters and is a member of the Carillon Guild at U-M. A past leader of Michigan's Jewish graduate student community, Kevin received the University of Michigan's Graduate Student of the Year Student Leadership Award and the College of Engineering Harry B. Benford Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership. His carillon arrangement of the Yiddish song "Zog Nit Keyn Mol" was published in the book "Global Rings" (CHI Press, 2020).

Xiaoying Pu is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, with a research interest in visually communicating uncertainty and data analyses. She has been taking carillon since Fall 2018, under Drs. Tiffany Ng and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra. In addition to playing weekly noontime concerts, Xiaoying has also arranged classical pieces for carillon and was featured in Earth Day at 50 Teach-Out at Michigan, performing a nature-themed arrangement of a Native American medicine song.

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Performance Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-06-21T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Burton Memorial Tower
Summer Carillon Concert: Dr. Linda Dzuris (June 28, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84267 84267-21620832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 28, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dr. Linda Dzuris (BM '92, MM '93, DMA '98), performs the first of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts at Burton Memorial Tower. Her program ranges from Argentine tango to Gershwin to pop hits from multiple decades.

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Linda Dzuris became Clemson’s first University Carillonneur in 1999 and is a Professor of Music in the Department of Performing Arts. Additionally, Dzuris is a performance instructor of the North American Carillon School, which was established in 2013 as affiliate and American representative of the Royal Carillon School ‘Jef Denyn’ in Mechelen, Belgium. She received her B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees in organ performance and church music from the University of Michigan. Carillon study was also done in Ann Arbor, MI, with additional study at The Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, NL.  Dzuris is a former board member, a current adjudicator on the Associate Carillonneur Evaluation Committee, and a juror on the Carillonneur Exam Committee for the GCNA.  She has been a featured guest artist in carillon concert series throughout the United States, The Netherlands, France, and Switzerland. In 2017, Dzuris performed concerts on behalf of the GCNA at the 19th World Carillon Federation Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. American Carillon Music Editions and the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs publish her original carillon compositions.

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Performance Wed, 16 Jun 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-06-28T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Burton Memorial Tower
Summer Carillon Concert: John Widmann (July 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84270 84270-21620835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Date change from July 17

John Widmann, City Carillonneur of the City of Frederick, MD, performs the fourth of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts at Burton Memorial Tower. His program ranges from original compositions for carillon to classical transcriptions to movie themes.

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. Concerts are free and family-friendly. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY: John Widmann is the City Carillonneur for the City of Frederick, Maryland, where he plays recitals every Sunday at 12:30, year-round, on the Joseph Dill Baker Carillon in Baker Park. He has now held that position for twenty-nine years. Mr. Widmann graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and completed in his Master of Music degree from Towson University in 2011. In addition to his Sunday recitals, he recently retired from Frederick County Public Schools where he was a General/Vocal Music teacher. He is also a freelance organist and conductor. Mr. Widmann became a Carillonneur Member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America in 1996, and is a past member of the national board of that organization. He maintains an active concert schedule, and has played frequently in the U.S., along with recitals in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Canada, and the Netherlands Antilles. He lives in Frederick with his wife and sometimes their two grown children.

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Performance Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-07-26T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Summer Carillon Concert: John Widmann
Summer Carillon Concert: HyoJin Jenna Moon (August 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84271 84271-21620836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

date change from July 26

HyoJin (Jenna) Moon (DMA '21) performs the fifth of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts. Her program "Classic and New Voices" foregrounds music by women composers from Florence Price to Hyo Won Woo to her own Korean-inspired compositions. Moon is the author of U-M's Korean-language carillon FAQ: https://wp.me/p7VjVq-bj

The annual series takes place at 7 PM on Mondays from June 21 to August 9, featuring performers from Michigan and around the U.S. playing either Burton or Lurie Tower. The carillon is an outdoor instrument, and attendees are requested to maintain social distance in the outdoor listening areas surrounding the towers. Attendees are required to follow the University of Michigan, Washtenaw County, Michigan state, and federal guidelines for large outdoor gatherings.

Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.

BIOGRAPHY: Hyojin (Jenna) Moon is a doctoral candidate in Sacred Music at the University of Michigan where she studies with Dr. James Kibbie (organ), Dr. Tiffany Ng (carillon), and Dr. Kola Owolabi (sacred music). Moon received her master’s degree from U-M with the Michele Johns Scholarship, and her bachelor’s degree from Trinity Christian College (organ and music education).

Moon has performed over 100 weekday carillon recitals at U-M. An avid carillon ambassador for diversity, she programmed her dissertation recital with an inclusive repertoire to celebrate carillon music by people of color and women. Moon organized a student carillon concert series, including “New Perspective & Inclusivity on Digital Carillon Concert,” collaborating with the Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career Empowerment & Leadership Enterprise Fund), and a new Augmented Reality carillon performance with Architecture students (supported by a Sonic Scenographies Research Grant). She published her carillon works, 'Sae-Ta-Ryung (Birdsong)' and 'Parang-Sae (Bluebird),' in "Global Rings" (CHI Press, 2020). She was Vice President of the University of Michigan Carillon Guild.

Moon has extensive experience playing organ at churches throughout North America, the U-M Annual Organ Conferences, the AGO Lenten Recital Series, and the Brown Bag Recital Series on the Letourneau organ at the U-M. In 2019, Moon received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to participate in the Netherlands and Germany U-M organ tour to perform in masterclasses at thirteen historic organs in Europe, including Amsterdam, Norden, Cappel, Hamburg, Leipzig, Rötha, Dresden, and Waltershausen.

Moon’s awards include the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award, Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, Rackham Doctoral Fellowship, a Sonic Scenographies research grant, and the Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career Empowerment & Leadership Enterprise Fund. Moon has worked as U-M summer carillon concert series manager, social media specialist, and cataloguing assistant under Dr. Ng's direction.

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Performance Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:15:03 -0400 2021-08-16T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Summer Carillon Concert: HyoJin Jenna Moon
Faculty recital: “Not Sighted, but Visionary: Music by Blind Carillonist-Composers” 2021 Organ Conference (October 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87252 87252-21640672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Tiffany Ng, Associate Professor of Carillon and Sile O’Modhrain, Associate Professor of Performing Arts Technology, University of Michigan

Performance by Ng with and introduction of “The Holy Braille” by O’Modhrain

Watch on Zoom https://myumi.ch/WwbY7

2021 Organ Conference
More information at https://myumi.ch/zxzOO

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:26:32 -0400 2021-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Faculty recital: “Not Sighted, but Visionary: Music by Blind Carillonist-Composers” 2021 Organ Conference
Music of women composers for carillon - Who was First to do What! (December 8, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89173 89173-21660852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Gather outdoors on Ingalls Mall to hear a prelude from the Burton Tower carillon of music by the first women to break carillon glass ceilings in the early 20th century

At 7:15 join a pre-concert lecture and the 8:00PM performance by Concert Band and special guests, “Let Woman Choose Her Sphere.” This concert utilizes the centenary of the ratification of the 19th amendment as an opportunity to showcase the broader fight for equality throughout this country’s history to the present day. It is well known that only white women gained the right to vote in 1920, and the fight for truly universal suffrage continued in earnest for decades. But suffrage alone is not enough, and the fight for equality in all areas of public and private life continues. We celebrate the voices of those who have stood up and spoken out for rights in America. From Jane Adams to Janet Mock, this event is for ALL.

PROGRAM
Prelude for Bells (1934)
Gladys Elinor Watkins (1884-1939)
First appointed carillonist in New Zealand
Zoe (Kai Wai) Lei, Doctoral student in Organ: Sacred Music

Ave Maria (1929)
Adèle Colson (1905-1997)
First woman to earn a carillon diploma
Christine El-Hage, Doctoral student in Organ: Sacred Music

Meidansje (1920)
Catharina Van Rennes (1858-1940)
First woman to publish a carillon score

Jerusalem, from Triptiek (1951)
Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892-1971)
First woman to publish carillon compositions with leading Dutch new music publisher Donemus
Michelle Lam, Doctoral student in Economics

La Puertorriqueña: Reverie (1896)
Sister Marie Seraphine (Frances) Gotay (1865-1932)
arr. Rachel Barton Pine and Tiffany Ng
Born in Puerto Rico and the only Black woman composer known to be active in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century
Jackson Merrill, Master’s student in Organ Performance

Air, from Three Short Pieces (1959) (1:00)
Jean W. Miller (1916-1964)
First woman to publish her compositions in North America and first blind woman composer to write for carillon
Yiqing (Mitty) Ma, Doctoral student in Music Theory

Variations on ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ (1976)
The tune of ‘Let Woman Choose Her Sphere’
Leen ‘t Hart (1920-1992)
Eva Albalghiti, Doctoral student in Environmental Engineering

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Performance Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:15:16 -0500 2021-12-08T18:30:00-05:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Music of women composers for carillon - Who was First to do What!
Tiffany Ng, carillon (March 30, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93575 93575-21705921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Navajo Vocable for Piano No. 6 (2014)
Connor Chee (b. 1987)
arr. Tiffany Ng

Navajo Vocable for Piano No. 5 (2014)
Connor Chee (b. 1987)
arr. Tiffany Ng

Navajo pianist and composer Connor Chee is known for combining his classical piano training with his Native American heritage. Chee made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12 after winning a gold medal in the World Piano Competition. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, Chee’s solo piano music is inspired by traditional Navajo chants and songs.

Chee has released three studio albums of original pieces and piano transcriptions of Navajo music. The Navajo Piano won Best Instrumental Recording at the 16th Annual Native American Music Awards, and his piece “Beginnings” won Best New Age Song. Chee’s most recent release, Scenes from Dinétah, features piano pieces written about elements of Navajo life and culture. It has been accompanied by the release of several music videos filmed on the Navajo reservation, directed by Navajo filmmaker Michael Etcitty Jr. www.wildsaguarorecords.com

The lecture will take place in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League

Navajo and Dutch writer, speaker and activist, and 2020 U.S. presidential candidate, Mark Charles kicks off the symposium with the 24th De Vries-VanderKooy Memorial Lecture.
He is introduced by Zoi Crampton, co-chair of the Native American Student Association (NASA)

The son of an American woman (of Dutch heritage) and a Navajo man, Mark Charles teaches the complexities of American history regarding race, culture, and Christendom in order to help forge a path of healing and conciliation for the nation.

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Performance Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:15:29 -0400 2022-03-30T19:30:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Tiffany Ng, carillon
‘Your Rhythm Is Rebellion’: Ringing in Postcolonial Carillon Solidarity (April 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93337 93337-21702779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

On the 53-bell carillon in Burton Tower, university carillonist Tiffany Ng will premiere the first carillon works ever written by Black South African composers. Audiences are invited to listen outdoors on Ingalls Mall. Entitled "‘Your Rhythm Is Rebellion’: Ringing in Postcolonial Carillon Solidarity," this landmark concert is part of the Dutch Studies theme semester "Dutch Studies: A Decolonial Revision" and features commissioned works by Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Chantal Willie-Petersen, and Kendall Williams, alongside music from Native American, Curaçaoan, and Indonesian composers and traditions, as well as a new carillon arrangement of the 1913 art song "An Evening Calm" by Cape Coast (Ghana) composer Charles Emmanuel Graves (Kwamena Abayie), grandfather of University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor Herbert Winful. The commissions will be co-premiered in South Africa by carillonist Alexios Vicatos on the carillon of Cape Town.

Visit https://myumi.ch/QeVZk for more information about the concert and other events.

Co-sponsors: Dutch Studies, African Studies Center (ASC), Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS)

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Performance Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:15:21 -0500 2022-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance ‘Your Rhythm Is Rebellion’: Ringing in Postcolonial Carillon Solidarity
‘Your Rhythm Is Rebellion’: Ringing in Postcolonial Carillon Solidarity (April 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93117 93117-21700933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Burton Memorial Tower
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

April 1, 12 -1 pm
Burton Tower
Indoor seating in Hussey Room, Michigan League

Program:
World premieres of the first carillon compositions by South-African composers of color:

Bongani Ndodana-Breen
Chantal Willie-Petersen
Kendall Williams

Performed by Tiffany Ng, U-M university carillonist, with solidarity concert by Alexios Vicatos at Cape Town City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa


The event is part of the event series, Dutch Studies: A Decolonial Revision, celebrating 50 Years of Dutch Studies at the University of Michigan. Events take place March 30 - April 2, 2022, and are accompanied by an exhibit in the Hatcher Graduate Library, Jan 31 - April 4, 2022.

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Performance Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:35:46 -0400 2022-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Burton Memorial Tower Germanic Languages & Literatures Performance Poster with event details