The sounds of music
Mini-Music series debuts at new Tanna Schulich Hall
What makes a musician and how do musicians make music? From Mozart to Marsalis, baroque to bebop, McGill will cover it all in its first ever Mini-Music lecture series.
Beginning April 25, the Schulich School of Music will host Mini-Music, a series of six lectures designed to demystify the world of music for an uninitiated but enthralled public. Mini-Music will bring music lovers together with top music scholars showcasing a range of topics, from deciphering jazz to the soundscape of opera to the off-stage lives of professional musicians.
The series debuts on April 25 at 6:00 pm, with Professor Gordon Foote's lecture on deconstructing and understanding jazz music, "Do You Hear What I Hear? Stamp Out Jazz Ignorance." Additional lecture series topics include a session about the science and technology behind musical recordings, "Recorded Music: A Bridge of Sound Between Musicians and their Audience."
The remaining lectures will take place at the same time on Tuesday evenings at the Tanna Schulich Recital Hall, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, 555 Sherbrooke Street West.
The Mini-Music series is modeled after its popular counterparts in the Faculties of Medicine and Law. Mini-Med, the only public outreach series of its kind in Canada, was launched four years ago and has sold out annually ever since.
