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The Brook Center is a scholarly facility associated with the doctoral program in music at
The City University of New York Graduate Center.

Current Brook Center projects include:
Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments
Ensemble for the Romantic Century Seminars
Foundation for Iberian Music
French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Music in Gotham: The New York Scene
Pergolesi Research Center
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)
Research Center for Music Iconography (RCMI)
Xenakis Project of the Americas
21st-Century Music in Society

New Artist-in-Residence at the Foundation for Iberian Music

8 May 2012: The Foundation for Iberian Music proudly announces its new artist-in-residence, Perspectives Ensemble. Founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Sato Moughalian, Perspectives Ensemble historically and culturally contextualizes the works of composers in its performance events. The Foundation has collaborated with Perspectives Ensemble recently and looks forward to continuing its musical and productive relationship with Sato Moughalian and the ensemble.

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Medieval Music Summer Course in Catalonia

8 May 2012: The Foundation for Iberian Music is co-sponsoring the Summer immersion course 1st International Course on Medieval Music Performance (12th-14th c.) with Professor Mauricio Molina, recipient of the Higini Anglès Dissertation Award (2006) and a graduate of the Program in Music at the City University of New York, the Graduate Center. During the week of July 9-14, Dr. Molina will be leading a group class “Theory and Performance of Medieval Music” and instrument lessons “Medieval Frame Drums and Percussion (tambourine, square frame drum, tariya).”

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NYC Andalus Ensemble Concert

17 May 2012: The NYC Andalus Ensemble, sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music, is performing a free concert at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Elebash Recital Hall. The ensemble is coordinated by Samuel R. Thomas (Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology at the Graduate Center) and directed by Rachid Halihal.

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Surveilling the Imagination: Akhmatova, Shostakovich, and the Plight of the Artist in Stalinist Russia

23 April 2012: A seminar with Prof. Julia Trubikhina, Substitute Associate Professor of Russian in the Department of Classics and Oriental Studies and Acting Head of the Division of Russian and Slavic Studies at Hunter College, CUNY, and James Melo, musicologist for the Ensemble for the Romantic Century and Senior Editor at RILM. The seminar [...]

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Perspective: Xenakis Festival

4-5 May 2012: Perspective:Xenakis is the first biannual festival focusing on the work of one innovative 20th or 21st century composer.  Conscious aims of the festival include representing the totality of a composer’s output as well as bringing both committed and acclaimed interpreters of the chosen composer’s music to Austin.  This festival intends to fill [...]

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Earthquake Mass: A Pre-Concert Lecture by Antoni Pizà

26 April, 2012: Missa Ecce terra motus (Earthquake Mass) is an expansive composition with 12 independent vocal parts by Antoine Brumel. On Thursday, April 26, Antoni Pizà will give a pre-concert lecture about the mass and its historical context. The concert and lecture is hosted by the Church of St. Luke of the Fields and the mass is performed by the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields.

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Mauricio Molina’s Book Wins the 2010 Nicolas Besseraboff Prize

23 March, 2012: The American Musical Instrument Society just awarded the 2010 Nicholas Besseraboff Prize to the book Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula (Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2010) by early music performer and scholar Mauricio Molina. The award recognizes a distinguished book-length work in English that best furthers the AMIS’ goal to promote the study of the history, design, and use of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods.

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Alan Lomax in Spain

18 March, 2012: IB3 Radio interviews Director Antoni Pizà on the recordings of Alan Lomax in Spain. All of the Alan Lomax recordings have been restored, digitized, and cataloged, and are now available online on the website of the Association for Cultural Equity. The radio segment is available on the Audio Archive.

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