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Twenty-Fifth CMT Colloquium “He’s Got Next: Implications of Common’s Foundations for Hip-Hop Music in Chicago” Presented by Grant Knox

Composition, Lecture, Music Theory, Musicology Friday February 1, 2019 - 4:00p.m. to 5:00p.m.

Venue: Green Room

The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music presents:

Twenty-Fifth CMT Colloquium
“He’s Got Next: Implications of Common’s Foundations for Hip-Hop Music in Chicago”
Presented by Grant Knox (Graduate Student in Musicology)
Friday, February 1, 2019
Green Room, School of Music, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Free Admission

This colloquium is the twenty-fifth in a continuing series of lectures, to take place on the last Friday of the month. Each features a presentation by a faculty member, student, or guest in the areas of Composition, Musicology, or Music Theory (CMT), followed by a time for questions, comments, and general discussion. It is hoped that these monthly sessions will be an opportunity to communicate current ideas and research in these areas within the Fred Fox School of Music.

Grant Knox: “He’s Got Next: Implications of Common’s Foundations for Hip-Hop Music in Chicago”

The Golden Age of Hip-Hop (ca. 1988–1995) is home to a host of stylistic and cultural developments that would help us contextualize the decade(s) prior and following. Although much of the scholarship pertaining to this period discusses the landscape of hip-hop music on the East and West Coasts, there are a number of developments in cities such as Chicago, Atlanta, and Detroit. Specifically, much of the identity that is associated with Chicago hip-hop then and now responds to its resistance to mainstream exposure, and that identity has remained consistent despite its emergence onto the mainstream hip-hop scene. Because of this, scholarship evaluating the history of Chicago hip-hop remains limited, and we are left with an incomplete narrative of how Chicago hip-hop came to be the regional power that it is today.

Common’s 1992 album “Can I Borrow A Dollar?” remained consistent with innovations and developments of the Golden Age while paving the way for Chicago to emerge as a mainstream player in the hip-hop landscape. Although the Chicago sound is diverse and its evolution cannot be reduced to one artist’s profile, in this paper I will evaluate stylistic elements found in this album which are consistent with the Golden Age as well as the evolution of Common’s style which exhibit many of the stylistic distinctions we associate with Chicago hip-hop.

About the presenter:

Grant Knox is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Historical Musicology at the University of Arizona. After receiving his bachelor’s in music education from Murray State University in Murray, KY, Grant looks forward to pursuing musicology with the hope of shaping the way broader audiences understand and appreciate music. This has led to his interest in hip-hop studies which accompanies his interest in the contributions of African-Americans to musical diplomacy

during the Cold War and various other 20th-century American music topics.

This colloquium is a preview of the paper Grant will present at “Hip-Hop in the Golden Age,” a conference that will take place at Indiana University on February 16–17, 201

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Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Cockrell, conductor

Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Featuring UA Faculty Soloist Yunah Lee, soprano

Friday, March 1, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Catalina Foothills High School
(4300 East Sunrise Drive)
Free Admission

Featuring Concert Opening Ensembles:

Catalina Foothills High School Strings
Ryan Watson, director

CFSD Middle-School Strings
Terry Alexander, director

Lyric soprano Yunah Lee is thrilling audiences in the U.S., Europe and Asia with her “handsomely colored full lyric sound” (Opera News) and “picture perfect” acting (Berkshire Fine Arts). Recent performances in the title role of "Madama Butterfly" were hailed in Germany as “a revelation… [her] voice unites the girlish innocence and the wistful sensuality [of Cio Cio San]” (Online Musik Magazin). “...thoroughly captivating, above all thanks to Yunah Lee, who is utterly convincing in mood and presentation… a commanding and touching performance revealing the highs and lows of Butterfly’s emotions.” (Das Opernglas).

In the 2017-2018 season, Ms. Lee will make a company debut with Opera Naples in "Madama Butterfly" and appear to sing the role of Pamina in "The Magic Flute" with Orchestra Miami. Ms. Lee enjoyed an exciting season in 2016-2017, making her company debuts with Washington National Opera in the title role of "Madama Butterfly" immediately after her successful debut with Austin Lyric Opera in her signature Puccini role. The season 2015-2016 brought Ms. Lee a huge success in making her role debut in "Rusalka" with Korea National Opera. In the 2014-2015 season, Ms. lee made her company debuts with Utah Opera ("Madama Butterfly"), Tampa Opera ("Madama Butterfly"), Michigan Opera ("Madama Butterfly") and Seoul Philharmonic ("Eugene Onegin", "Tatyana"). In the 2013-2014 season, Ms. Lee joined the Metropolitan Opera and made her company debuts with Opera Quebec and the Glimmerglass Festival in the title role of "Madama Butterfly." The previous season included performances with the Boston Lyric Opera ("Madama Butterfly") and Opera Carolina ("The Magic Flute," Pamina) as well as a solo recital at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City and a concert tour in Japan.

Yunah Lee made her European Opera debut in 2005 in the title role in "Madama Butterfly with Stadttheater Bern in Switzerland. She immediately returned to Europe to appear in concert with Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain and then to New York City Opera as Mimi in "La Bohème." She made her debut in the role of Cio Cio San in her home town in New Jersey in 2002, and repeated the role over 160 times in venues including Virginia Opera, Grand Rapids Opera, Central City Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera Carolina, Minnesota Opera, New York City Opera, Staattheater Bern, Staattheater St Gallen, De Vlaamse Opera, Staattheater Braunschweig, Opera Ireland, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Quebec and Dallas Opera, among others.

Ms. Lee made her New York City Opera debut as Micaëla in "Carmen" after having sung the United States premiere of the contemporary opera "Kinkakuji" with them. She later returned to perform the roles of Mimi, Zerlina, and Dew Fairyand to cover Gretel, Antonia and Liù. Ms. Lee toured Taiwan as Mimi, which she repeated in over 70 performances with New York City Opera, Cleveland Opera, Boheme Opera, Opera Roanoke, Aspen Music Festival, and made a company debut with the Korea National Opera in 2007. Ms. Lee made her debut with São Paulo Opera as Micaëla in "Carmen," which she repeated with the New York City Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Tokyo City Orchestra. Ms. Lee's other performances include Marguerite and Liù with Minnesota Opera, her debut in the role of Leila in "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" with Cleveland Opera and Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni" with Palm Beach Opera and the National Opera of Korea.

Ms. Lee's past performance roles include Nedda in "I Pagliacci," Contessa Almaviva in "Le Nozze di Figaro," Adnia in "L'elisr d'amore" and Juliette in "Romeo et Juliette."
As an active concert singer, Ms. Lee has sung "Messiah," Mozart Requiem, Haydn "Creation" and Bach "St. Matthew Passion" with the New York Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall, and Verdi Requiem with National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall. In 2008, Ms. Lee was invited to appear as a soloist in the Great Mountain Music Festival, where she performed works of Rodrigo, Villa Lobos, Handel, Earl Kim and George Crumb. The 2005-2006 season saw Ms. Lee's debut with Hiroshima Symphony performing Mahler Symphony No. 2, in the memorial concert of the 60th year after the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima, her solo recital in Los Angeles at USC’s Newman Hall, KMF Virtuoso Concert at Alice Tully Hall with pianist Warren Jones and her European concert debut with the Pablo Picasso Orchestra in Malaga, Spain.

Ms. Lee made her solo recital debut at the Carnegie Hall and Ho-Am Recital Hall in Seoul, Korea followed by a national tour in five cities in South Korea. Ms. Lee was also featured in the Christmas Concert with Beijing National Symphony in China, in recitals with Shanghai Symphony and Seoul Arts Center, and in concert with Tokyo City Orchestra. Ms. Lee's first recording of “Four Seasons in Korea” with I Musici was released in 2004.

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

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The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music

Guitar Spring Fling
Concerts, Master Classes, Competition
March 16-23, 2019
Holsclaw Hall
Full Schedule: tucsonguitarsociety.org
Co-sponsored by the Tucson Guitar Society

The Tucson Guitar Society closes its International Artist Series for the season with Grammy Award-winning guitarist David Russell from Spain and Scotland, as well as the great young French performer Gabriel Bianco. One of Tucson’s great treasures is the musical residency of the extraordinary David Russell at the University of Arizona. He comes every year to teach and to perform, thanks to the legacy of Sandy Bolton. Russell also judges the David Russell Bach Prize Recital, which presents four top guitar students playing works of Johann Sebastian Bach. This year the winner will be awarded a custom guitar by German luthier Dennis Tolz, who will also be present at the event.

David Russell
Saturday, March 16, 7:00 p.m.
& Sunday, March 17, 2019
Holsclaw Hall, 4:00 p.m.
$30, 25, 15
Tickets: tickets.arizona.edu, 520-621-1162

Fifth Annual David Russell Bach Prize Finalists Recital
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Holsclaw Hall, 7:00 p.m.
$10, 7, 5
Tickets: tickets.arizona.edu, 520-621-1162

Gabriel Bianco
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Holsclaw Hall, 7:00 p.m.
$25, 20, 10
Tickets: tucsonguitarsociety.org, 520-342-0022

David Russell Bach Prize Finalists Recital

The Annual David Russell Bach Prize Finalists Recital features four student finalists in this highly competitive competition. (The semifinal round of this competition is taking place on Wednesday, March 13 at 7:00 p.m. in Holsclaw Hall, and this portion of the competition is free admission, open to the public.)

Grammy Award-winning guitarist David Russell is the sole judge of the four finalists. In May 2014 Maestro Russell was bestowed the Honorary Doctoral Degree from the University of Arizona. About this competition, Russell wrote, “The wonderful music of J.S. Bach is satisfying on all levels: emotionally, intellectually, technically and historically. It has given me so much pleasure and happiness all through my life, that I want to encourage all the students to dedicate some valuable time of their important formative years at the university to studying his music. The competition will be a very good incentive for them to include some of Bach’s works in their repertoire that I hope will give them the same pleasure for their entire lives.” Past winners of this competition are: 2015 Misael Barraza; 2016 Bin Hu; 2017 Nicholas Epple; 2018 Misael Barraza

David Russell

David Russell is the most sought after classical guitar soloist and teacher of today, widely renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry. David Russell’s connection with the University of Arizona started in 1981, playing concerts and giving master classes. These occasional visits eventually became yearly events, providing continuity in his work with students in the guitar program. The quality of his teaching and his outstanding performances drew the attention of Dr. Sandy Bolton, an aficionado of the instrument. The first major gift of the Boltons was to sponsor David’s residencies, and Sandy and Phyllis Bolton went on to make major gifts to the guitar studies program. David continues to be artist in residence at the University of Arizona, visiting every spring. His regular participation in master classes draws some of the best students in guitar from around the world to the Bolton Guitar Studies Program.

David Russell tours widely, appearing regularly at prestigious halls in the world’s major cities, from Wigmore Hall, London, to the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, and all major cities between. He also plays with symphony orchestras all over the world, having been under the baton of reputed conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, performing for large crowds, as he did recently in Chicago with Alondra de la Parra at the Millennium Park. David is currently touring with an innovative project of Golden Globe Award film composer Michael Nyman, with whom he has worked in close collaboration.

David has recorded CDs of music from every period, with an extraordinary total of twenty-seven recordings. Since 1995, he has had an exclusive contract with Telarc International, with whom he has made seventeen CDs. A solo recoding every year is an extraordinary accomplishment, and, in addition, his 2005 CD "Aire Latino" won the Grammy Award in the category of best instrumental soloist in classical music.

A large number of prominent composers have dedicated works to him that have become standards in the guitar repertoire. Conversely, David’s publications of his own transcriptions are widely used by guitar players everywhere.

In addition to his musical work, David dedicates much of his time to charitable works. He and his wife, María Jesús, created an NGO (Non Governmental Organization) registered in Spain, called "ONGD David Russell y María Jesús." Through it, they have financed projects of cooperation for the development of water extraction, construction of wells, management of hydraulic infrastructures, groundwork for the hydrological resources and development of the conditions of drinking water, as well as promoting the access to drinking water in African countries. They have built more than 70 wells to date. The second major goal of this organization, is to help with projects of education in India. They have financed the building of four schools in Andra Pradesh, in the area of Anantapur. And the project closest to their hearts is the maintenance of a school in India for 90 disabled children, both physically and mentally handicapped. Although David spends most of the year on tour playing concerts and teaching, the humanitarian work represents a very important part of his life.

For more information visit www.davidrussellguitar.com

Gabriel Bianco

The French guitarist, Gabriel Bianco, was born into a family of musicians, and received an early start on the guitar, receiving lessons with his father at age five. A few years later, in 1997, he began his studies in Paris with Ramon de Herrera at the Conservatoire National de Région, Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNR-CSP). In 2005 he graduated with congratulations and a unanimous first prize. The same year, he received the highest rank in the entrance competition to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where he received the top performance distinction under the teaching of Olivier Chassain. In addition, he attended master-classes with Roberto Aussel, Jose Luis Campana, Roland Dyens, Marcin Dylla, Edouardo Fernandez, Jérémy Jouve, Stephen Schmidt. He has also studied extensively with French virtuoso Judicaël Perroy.

Gabriel Bianco has many and varied musical activities (theater pieces, creation of new contemporary works...), but his primary activity is as a soloist in recital. He played his first concert in Paris when he was 15, and in 2002-2003, he performed in a theater play in Paris during a whole season with "théâtre fragile" company. His strong performances in international competitions since 2006 (1st prize in international competition "Gitarre Forum" in Vienna, Austria, "Hubert Kaeppel" in Koblenz, Germany,"Guitar Foundation of America" in San Francisco, USA, "Foundation San Gredos' in Madrid, Spain), led to a very active performance career as a soloist.

He also is a member of the outstanding Eclisses Quartet with whom he travels widely.

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Tonight in Holsclaw Hall!
Presented by the Tucson Guitar Society

Tengyue (TY) Zhang, China, the touring winner of the Guitar Foundation of America Competition plays in Holsclaw Hall tonight, February 14!

He will play a varied program, perfect for Valentines's Day, and student tickets are only $10 at the door.
General admission is $25.
The recital is at 7:00 p.m., and doors open for seat selection at 6:30 p.m. For more information, see www.TucsonGuitarSociety.org or call 520-332-5256.
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Third Annual Michael Moore Memorial Piano Competition
for Undergraduate Pianists
February 24, Sunday, 4:00 p.m.
Holsclaw Hall, $Free

The Michael Moore Memorial Piano Competition honors the memory of Michael Moore, a dedicated pianist-performer and alumnus of our school. Our undergraduate piano students will compete for over $4,000 in prize awards.
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Recital Date Change Notice:
Arizona Baroque – “España y Nueva España”

NEW DATE, TIME & VENUE:
Sunday, April 6, 2019 – 12:00 p.m.
Saint Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church
(4440 N. Campbell Avenue)
Free Admission

This recital was listed in the
2018-2019 Music On Campus brochure
as taking place on April 13 in Holsclaw Hall.
We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.
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