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• Krannert Art Museum - Call for performers for "Pandemics as a Portal to Change"

  by Julia KellyFeb 23, 2021 9:45 pm1 View

  Krannert Art Museum announces a campus and community focused collaboration titled Pandemics as a Portal to Change. If you are an artist (visual arts, writing, original music, and video/performance) who has considered the world on the other side of our current struggles, from climate change to racial justice and economic distress to the covid pandemic, consider applying to participate. 

  Partners in this project are the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Urbana Public Arts and Culture, Urbana Free Library, the Independent Media Center, and Museum of the Grand Prairie.

  You can see the call for art at go.illinois.edu/PortalToChange. 

  Submission deadline, April 19. 

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• Annual Awards Competition for the Musicians Club of Women of Chicago

  by Stephen BurianFeb 16, 2021 1:15 pm132  Views

  The Musicians Club of Women of Chicago is pleased to announce its Annual Awards Competition for spring of 2021! This virtual competition is open to young women musicians aged 16-30 as of April 1, 2021, living or studying in IL, IN, MI, WI, MN, IA.

  The MCW annually awards over $50,000 in prize money to support promising young female musicians over three categories: voice, instrumental, and — new this year — composition. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2021.

   

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• Performers: Share your Video Content for Black History Month

  by Linda MoorhouseFeb 16, 2021 12:45 pm8  Views

  Dear School of Music Faculty and Staff:

  As we continue to celebrate Black History Month in our virtual and physical classrooms, homes, and community spaces, we would like to extend an invitation to you to share what continues to inspire you at this time...perhaps you are (or have been) working on music (solo or collaboration) as part of this month's observance, and perhaps you would be willing to share your endeavors.

  We are looking for video (or audio) recordings featuring the music of Black/African American composers. These recordings will be edited together to share with the entire SoM community at the end of the month.

  If are are interested in submitting a recording, please upload it to the Box account at this link: https://uofi.app.box.com/f/2d4413b09d5c4286a28764c4b912f3e4

  Be sure to include the music title and composer of the work. The deadline to submit a recording is Monday, February 22 at midnight. Note: Any recordings made on cell phones are viewed best when the recording window is horizontal.  

  Thanks, and happy fourth week of school!  ...and let me know if you have any questions!

  Linda R. Moorhouse, DMA
  Associate Director and Professor
  moorhouz@illinois.edu

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• Guest Speaker: Swedish Hip-Hop Artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité

  by Stephen BurianFeb 16, 2021 12:45 pm23  Views

  Please join the European Union Center for a conversation with Swedish hip-hop artist Jason Diakité (aka Timbuktu), who will talk about his music, his memoir (A Drop of Midnight, which was recently translated into English), and the podcast he produces with chef Marcus Samuelsson (“This Moment”). 

  A Drop of Midnight is a remembrance of the journey that Mr. Diakité’s parents made from Harlem, New York to Lund, Sweden in the 1960s, and his reconnection and engagement with his family’s identity as an adult in Sweden. His podcast with Marcus Samuelsson began just after the murder of George Floyd, and deals with transatlantic perceptions of issues involving the Black Lives Matter movement, how the two speakers talk to their children about racism, effects of COVID-19 on their respective industries, and future trends in creative economic sectors. 

  https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/1169?eventId=33399594

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• 15th Biennial Black Sacred Music Symposium

  by Ollie DavisFeb 11, 2021 9:30 am42  Views

  The 15th Biennial Black Sacred Music Symposium "SHELTER" will be held Saturday, February 20, 2021 from 10:00am--2:00pm. Directed by Professor Ollie Watts Davis and hosted by the UI Black Chorus as a veritable offering without charge on a virtual platform, SYMPOSIUM XV will deliver the hallmarks of the Sacred Music Traditions of Black America: inspiration, instruction, encouragement, and community. 

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• Carle Community Concerts

  by Rebecca KasdanJan 13, 2021 10:00 am413  Views

  Preparing for a competition or a recital? Want more performance practice and public speaking opportunities? Looking to give back to the community in a meaningful way? Carle Community Concerts are a weekly live- stream performance series exclusviely for Carle Hospital patients in the Champaign, IL area. All genres and ensemble combos welcome!

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• New Online Exhibit "America's Hawaiian Imaginations through Letritia Kandle and Eddie Alkire"

  by Scott SchwartzJan 7, 2021 11:00 am13  Views

  The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music offers a new physical and online exhibit: “America’s Hawaiian Imaginations through Letritia Kandle and Eddie Alkire.” 

  Since most of the Center’s regular visitors will find it difficult to visit the Sousa Archives to see the physical exhibit, we created an engaging virtual version of this new show which we hope people will enjoy.

  America’s fascination with Hawaiian culture reached its peak during the Great Depression. The country needed a temporary escape from the Depression’s daily uncertainties, and its people eagerly embraced Hawaiian music for their imaginary travels to exotic places.

  Two of America’s leading performers, innovators, and educators of Hawaiian music in the 1930s and 40s were Letritia Kandle (1915-2010) and Eddie Alkire (1907-1981). This new exhibit examines the innovative teaching methods and new guitar technologies developed by Letritia Kandle and Eddie Alkire during the 1930s and 1940s.

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• Scholarship Competitions for Voice Students offered by National Society of Arts and Letters

  by Sarah WigleyJan 7, 2021 10:30 am154  Views

  The Central Illinois Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters announces two scholarship competitions for singers. 

  Winston Voice Scholarship for ages 16-22 and the Smith Voice Scholarship for ages 23-31 offer prizes as much as $12,000 for those moving on from our local competition.

  There is no registration fee.

   

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• Music and Performing Arts Library Collections and Services Over Winter Break and Preparing for Spring

  by Kirstin JohnsonDec 7, 2020 8:00 am32  Views

  Requesting Materials from the Library and iShare

  Requesting materials from campus libraries through the catalog is unavailable from the evening of Wednesday, December 23, and does not come on again until Monday, January 4. I-Share requesting is unavailable from the evening of Friday, December 18, and does not come on again until Monday, January 11. 
  
  Research and Library Help

  Email and chat reference service will be available until Friday, December 18 and will resume on Monday, January 4. For more information about getting help from the Library, see https://www.library.illinois.edu/mpal/services/askus/

  Library Instruction

  MPAL continues to offer support for courses by providing both synchronous instruction sessions and asynchronous options such as online research guides and video tutorials. If you would like to discuss options for your Spring courses, please email Kate Lambaria at lambari1@illinois.edu.
  
  Material Purchase Requests and Course Materials
  

  Please contact us with any purchase requests (either via email-mpal@library.illinois.edu  or the form on our website). While we are unable to offer physical course reserves again in the Spring, please let us know via if you need materials digitized for use in your classes or would like us to purchase electronic versions of items (where possible).

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• Great Value Colleges Music Scholarship for Black Students

  by Stephen BurianNov 18, 2020 9:45 am25  Views

  Great Value Colleges has developed a $5,000 scholarship, which will be awarded bi-annually to a black graduate or undergraduate student majoring or minoring in music.

  The deadlines are July 30 and November 30.

  More Information 

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