The Cal Poly Music Department website explains performances are designed to serve student soloists and offer Learn by Doing opportunities in opera. The event will take place during Cal Poly’s Open House weekend, an annual event that showcases the campus to prospective and current students.
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Cal Poly Arab Ensemble to put on range of beats per measure in winter concert
According to their website, the event will feature a wide range of rhythmic modalities, as well as examples of muwashshah, a genre of poetry and music that stems from 10th-century Andalusia in the southern Iberian Peninsula.
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Join guest artist Anne Hege and Cal Poly’s Julie Herndon for a night of electronic music
On Thursday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m. Julie Herndon of the Cal Poly Music Department and guest artist Anne Hege will present a concert in Room 218 of the Davidson Music Center.
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Professor to bring piano to the screen in virtual recital
W. Terrence Spiller, a Cal Poly music professor and pianist, will be performing a virtual piano recital live on Friday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. This virtual recital is being done in place of Spiller’s usual January recital, which typically features a showcase of Spiller’s repertoire. “Really, this is the only option nowadays if you […]
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RSVP XXIII: Fatherland will be a transmedia experience
RSVP is a transmedia concert that uses different media elements to convey a theme or a story.
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Conductor Thomas Davies retired in June
After three decades of teaching at Cal Poly, choir conductor Thomas Davies retired in June.
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Original Cal Poly music on showcase in Carnegie Hall
The piece, titled, “Wings of Bliss”, was created largely through the influence of music professor’s Craig Russell’s close friend and former pastor, Mark Richardson.
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Music department honors former trombonist
The Cal Poly Music Department also announced plans to remember former part-time faculty member Roy Main, who died from a stroke in May 2011 at the age of 81. The department will hold a memorial similar to Sears’ on May 12 at noon in room 218 of the Davidson Music Center. Main taught trombone and […]
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Music department loses its 'heartbeat'
Ross Sears, a percussion teacher in the Cal Poly music department, died March 18 at the age of 61. Sears, who is most remembered for his boisterous humor, worked in the department as a part-time faculty member for more than 20 years. Before coming to Cal Poly, Sears received his bachelor’s degree in percussion […]
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Parents converge on Cal Poly for the weekend
More than 900 families swarmed the Cal Poly campus for Parents’ Weekend activities like the football game, barbecue and the play this past weekend.
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Music department hosts Ensemble Showcase for Parents’ Weekend
A variety of music types and genres will be showcased this Friday by the Cal Poly Music Department for Parents’ Weekend.