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Conference on "Shakespeare, Music, and Memory," April 2016, Collegium Musicum: Emerald Lessley, Linda Tsatsanis, John Lenti (Baroque guitar), Nathan Whittaker (Baroque cello). -
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Students Maria Mannisto, Taro Kobayashi, and Madeline Bersamina in MUSEN 583, Collegium Musicum, directed by JoAnn Taricani. -
Members of Collegium Musicum, the UW's early music ensemble, rehearse on the upper floor of Mary Gates Hall.
The Collegium Musicum presents concerts that range from medieval music to Irish parlor songs, and includes singers as well as instrumentalists. In April 2014 the Collegium presented a concert of music from Shakespeare's plays to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. Auditions can be arranged by contacting the director.
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The elusive topic of “invisible music” is the focus of a May 10 symposium and concert at the University of Washington, hosted by the School of Music with the support of a grant by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Colloquium and Concert Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Death
Four centuries after the death of William Shakespeare, the Bard continues to influence scholarship and culture in profound ways, as music history professor JoAnn Taricani has discovered while exploring the significant role of music in the plays of Shakespeare and the ways we use music to remember Shakespeare and his characters.
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