Champaign-Urbana's longest-running weekly Irish traditional music session, led by Jake Schumacher and hosted by O'Neil's.

The session focuses on the traditional dance music of Ireland--jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes and much more--played on authentic Irish instruments including fiddle, button accordion, concertina, pipes and tenor banjo. Throughout the evening occasional songs are sung, stories are told, and often dancing starts during the second hour (sets, polkas and waltzes). Visiting musicians from throughout the US and the world will occasionally stop by for a few tunes.

Musicians with some experience in playing Irish music are welcome, and those with an interest in learning to play Irish music are encouraged to come and listen, as well as all who enjoy Irish and Irish-American culture, music, food and drink. For more information, contact Jake Schumacher at boscapod@gmail.com.

ACTIVIST TRANSFORMATIONS/ TRANSFORMING ACTIVISM

Illinois Student Association of Music Scholars (ISAMS) First Interdisciplinary Conference

Friday April 25

Smith 25, Smith Memorial Hall
Free and Open to the Public

6:30 pm
Welcome by Dr. Jeffrey Magee, Director of the University of Illinois School of Music and Professor of Music and Theatre

6:35 pm
Introduction by Megan Woller, President of ISAMS

6:35 pm Keynote:
Ethnomusicology and Advocacy Research: Ukraine as Case Study
Dr. Adriana Helbig, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh

Funded by:
The Student Organization Research Fee

Saturday April 26

Music Room, Levis Faculty Center

8:30 am
Registration and Coffee

9:00 am
Panel 1: Composer as Activist
Chair: Professor Stephen Taylor, Associate Professor of
Composition-Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Feminism as Nationalism?: A Critical Perspective on Dame Ethel Smyth
Trevor Nelson, Michigan State University

An Inescapable Sermon: Expressions of Spirituality and Nationality in Ralph
Vaughan Williams’s A Song of Thanksgiving (1944)
Emily Wuchner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Variation with a Point: Social Critique in Frederic Rzewski’s Polytonal Works
Bree Guerra, University of Texas-Pan American

10:30 am
Coffee Break

10:45 am
Panel 2: Social Activism and Performance
Chair: Dr. Michael Silvers, Assistant Professor of Musicology,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye”: Music, Spectacle and the Execution of John Wayne Gacy
Michael Siletti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“I want to be normal”: representations of gender and sexuality in the music of the
former Yugoslavia
Laura Jorgensen, University of Texas at Austin

(En)voicing Pluralism: Janelle Monáe’s Cyber-vocalities
Christopher Nickell, New York University

12:15 pm
Lunch Break (provided)

1:30 pm
Film Screening and Discussion:
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), Directed by Dušan
Makavejev
Introduced by Steve Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dinner on your own

7:30 pm
optional
Concert: Balkanalia
“Zbogom Selo: Songs of Farewell, Dances of Joy”
Recital Hall, Smith Memorial Hall
Free and Open to the Public

Sunday, April 27

Music Room, Levis Faculty Center

9:00 am
Coffee

9:30 am
Panel 3: Space and Identity
Chair: Lillie Gordon, Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Staging the Revolution: Live Music and Social Change in “Post”-Revolutionary Egypt
Darci Sprengel, University of California, Los Angeles

Digital Activism and Expressive Culture in the Syrian Revolution
Maria Trogolo, Indiana University

Queering the Harp: Reorienting Social Space in Midwestern Sacred Harp Singing
Jonathon Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:00 am
Concluding Roundtable Discussion
Moderated by Dr. Adriana Helbig, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Pittsburgh

Jonathan Ritter (University of California, Riverside “ Echoes of Violence: Postmemory and Indigenous Voice after the War in Peru”

CLACS LECTURE SERIES take place in an informal, friendly, and supportive setting where you share any selected aspect of your academic research with graduate and undergraduate students and faculty. Our aim is not only to promote students but also to involve faculty to participate and share their work.

Mike Silver (Illinois) “Singing about Drought in Northeastern Brazil”

CLACS LECTURE SERIES take place in an informal, friendly, and supportive setting where you share any selected aspect of your academic research with graduate and undergraduate students and faculty. Our aim is not only to promote students but also to involve faculty to participate and share their work.

Lemann Lecture Series: Cold War Politics and the Arts in Brazil: Reappraising Guerra-Peixe's Empirical Research on Northeastern Traditional Music (1950-1952)

Samuel Araujo, Ethnomusicology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Tinker Fellow, University of Chicago, and UI alumnus

Two Lectures by Donoung Lee
Tuesday, February 18th
Time:3:00 PM
Place: 1201 Music Building
Thursday, February, 20th
Time: 3:00 PM
Place: Room 1201 Music Building
Both are free and open to the public

Two internationally-acclaimed composers who combine electronics and traditional Korean music will be in residence at the University of Illinois from February 15 to the 23rd. The composers, Donoung Lee and Jinok Cho, are professors of composition at Seoul National University and will visit as part of an exchange program between the UI School of Music and SNU involving faculty composers. Lee is director of the Center for Arts and Technologies at SNU and has served as president of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society and the Korean Composers Association. Cho’s compositions have won the International New Music Consortium’s International Composition Competition, the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society Computer Music Prize, and been recognized by the Bourges International Competition in France

Tuesday’s lecture will focus on his composition “Sori” for cello and live electronics and Thursday’s lecture will address VSTI (Virtual Studio Technology Instruments) and Mobile Applications. In addition, the composers will meet with students and the public in what is called “Composer Conversations” at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, February 18th in the Carr Lounge of Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall where they will reside as part of the Global Crossroads Program at the UI.

Wednesday, February 19
Korean Connections
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Foellinger Great Hall of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets: $10 for the public, $7 for seniors, and $4 for students

The concert at the UI on Wednesday, February 19 is called Korean Connections and will feature the world premiere of Lee’s “Dolmen” for chamber orchestra which is a dramatic portrayal of Korean tribal life. Also on the program are Cho’s “Go-Dang” (Old House) that uses traditional Korean music to tell the story of a butterfly that transforms from a dead woman’s collar to fly around her house, and Browning’s” Mung Bean Mountain” which applies feng shui to the life of General Jeon Bong-jun who led a failed uprising against Japanese troops in 19th century Korea to create its music. The performance by the Illinois Modern Ensemble will be under the direction of Stephen Andrew Taylor.

West African Dance Classes with Djibril Camara

About the Classes: Open to beginners through advanced. Offered every Sunday evening.

The classes introduce attendees to dances from Guinea, in particular. Dances from other West African countries are also presented. Yankadi, Macru, Soli, Dundunba, Lamban, Sinte, Triba, Koukou and more are among the dances taught. Live drumming accompanies the class. Class begins with a warm up with live drumming, instruction in particular steps associated with a dance (w/o drums), dancing those steps (drumming), and solo circle (drumming).

What to Bring: Water, wear comfortable dance/workout clothes, and shoes are optional.

About Djibril: Djibril Camara teaches these classes. He is originally from Guinea in West Africa. He has danced professionally for 17 years and was the principal choreographer and dancer with the Ballet du Afrique Noir, touring throughout Africa, Europe and the U.S. He has been introducing various U.S. communities to the joys of African dance for over 5 years. He has lived in Champaign-Urbana for the past 3 years.

West African Dance Classes with Djibril Camara

About the Classes: Open to beginners through advanced. Offered every Sunday evening.

The classes introduce attendees to dances from Guinea, in particular. Dances from other West African countries are also presented. Yankadi, Macru, Soli, Dundunba, Lamban, Sinte, Triba, Koukou and more are among the dances taught. Live drumming accompanies the class. Class begins with a warm up with live drumming, instruction in particular steps associated with a dance (w/o drums), dancing those steps (drumming), and solo circle (drumming).

What to Bring: Water, wear comfortable dance/workout clothes, and shoes are optional.

About Djibril: Djibril Camara teaches these classes. He is originally from Guinea in West Africa. He has danced professionally for 17 years and was the principal choreographer and dancer with the Ballet du Afrique Noir, touring throughout Africa, Europe and the U.S. He has been introducing various U.S. communities to the joys of African dance for over 5 years. He has lived in Champaign-Urbana for the past 3 years.

West African Dance Classes with Djibril Camara

About the Classes: Open to beginners through advanced. Offered every Sunday evening.

The classes introduce attendees to dances from Guinea, in particular. Dances from other West African countries are also presented. Yankadi, Macru, Soli, Dundunba, Lamban, Sinte, Triba, Koukou and more are among the dances taught. Live drumming accompanies the class. Class begins with a warm up with live drumming, instruction in particular steps associated with a dance (w/o drums), dancing those steps (drumming), and solo circle (drumming).

What to Bring: Water, wear comfortable dance/workout clothes, and shoes are optional.

About Djibril: Djibril Camara teaches these classes. He is originally from Guinea in West Africa. He has danced professionally for 17 years and was the principal choreographer and dancer with the Ballet du Afrique Noir, touring throughout Africa, Europe and the U.S. He has been introducing various U.S. communities to the joys of African dance for over 5 years. He has lived in Champaign-Urbana for the past 3 years.

West African Dance Classes with Djibril Camara

About the Classes: Open to beginners through advanced. Offered every Sunday evening.

The classes introduce attendees to dances from Guinea, in particular. Dances from other West African countries are also presented. Yankadi, Macru, Soli, Dundunba, Lamban, Sinte, Triba, Koukou and more are among the dances taught. Live drumming accompanies the class. Class begins with a warm up with live drumming, instruction in particular steps associated with a dance (w/o drums), dancing those steps (drumming), and solo circle (drumming).

What to Bring: Water, wear comfortable dance/workout clothes, and shoes are optional.

About Djibril: Djibril Camara teaches these classes. He is originally from Guinea in West Africa. He has danced professionally for 17 years and was the principal choreographer and dancer with the Ballet du Afrique Noir, touring throughout Africa, Europe and the U.S. He has been introducing various U.S. communities to the joys of African dance for over 5 years. He has lived in Champaign-Urbana for the past 3 years.