Block 3 Music Events

Concerts, workshops and more across campus.

Concerts, workshops and more across campus.

Unless otherwise indicated, all concerts are in Packard Hall, are free, and require no tickets.

Songwriting With Word and Without

Approaches to musical composition with Steve Barta, jazz piano, and Joe Uveges, singer/songwriter
Longtime musicians Barta and Uveges offer insight into their distinct creative processes during a free afternoon workshop, followed by an evening concert featuring the two artists together on stage.

The Composer in War Time

Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Music of Conflict
Lecture presented by Eric Saylor, professor of music at Drake University. Presented in collaboration with the CC History Department.

Hannah Porter Occeña, flute

The masterclass, “Fixing Everything With Vowels,” welcomes flutists of all ages and abilities. During the concert, Occeña will be accompanied by Susan Grace, CC’s artist-in-residence and senior lecturer. Presented in collaboration with the Colorado Flute Association.

Kyshona

AN EVENING WITH KYSHONA


Colorado College will welcome singer/songwriter Kyshona and her trio for a performance beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6 in Celeste Theatre, Cornerstone Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Self-described as a “music therapist gone rogue,” Nashville-based Kyshona is an artist ignited by untold stories and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community. With the background of a licensed music therapist, the curiosity of a writer, the resolve of an activist, and the voice of a singer, Kyshona (pronounced Kuh-SHAUN-Uh) is unrelenting in her pursuit for the healing power of song. 

Presented in partnership between the Colorado College Music Department and the CC Wellness Resource Center, with additional support from the Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund.

Songwriting Workshop With Kyshona for CC Students

Do you need a mantra? An anthem? Are you looking to write a song that encapsulates a memory? Through guided journaling, improvisation, and exploration, attendees will create a song with Kyshona.
No previous experience necessary! This event is open to CC students only and limited to 20 participants. Click here to register.

Music at Midday

Presenting instrumental and vocal student performances every third Wednesday of the block during the academic year.

The Reminders
with CC Songwriting Students

Featuring a full set by The Reminders and fresh collaborative songs created by the students of MU275 Songwriting: Creative Workshop, performed on the CC Mobile Arts stage. Students’ songs are musical settings of texts written for this project by persons incarcerated at the Women’s Ward at El Paso County Jail. Presented in collaboration between CC Mobile Arts, the CC Music Department, and the FAC.

The Rocky Horror Show is sold out!


Oct. 28-30, 2022. Taylor Theatre in Taylor Hall
Confirm your reservation! Check the door lists below to find your name and number in your party:
  • If you are included in another person’s party AND you signed up on your own, please contact us and let us know we have a duplicate number.
  • If you can no longer attend, please let us know.
  • If you have fewer people in your party than you originally signed up for, please let us know.
  • If you see any errors, please let us know.
  • Contact the Music Office at 719-389-6042 or email lmanring@coloradocollege.edu?subject=Rocky%20Horror%20Show%20reservation” style=”font-weight: normal;font-weight: normal;color: #7a6646;text-decoration: underline;color: #7a6646;text-decoration: underline;color: rgb(255, 255, 255)”>lmanring@coloradocollege.edu
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Half Block Class

MU228 Topics in Music: Music Business


Instructor: Ricky Sweum
Class sessions begin at 5 p.m.!
Learn practical steps for building multiple revenue streams within the music industry. Investigate the current job market as a live and studio performing musician, composer and arranger, songwriter, teacher, producer, recording engineer, manager, and more. 
Topics on brand-building, building an audience, marketing, social media, and press-kits will be covered. 
Develop an understanding of music copyrights, royalties, and sync licensing. Explore aspects of the recording industry, from the inception of a song idea, all the way through recording, production, and distribution, using digital, physical, and cryptocurrency medias.
Half Block registration is going on now! Half Block is an optional block offered in January for students who decide to return early from Winter Break and earn an extra half unit (.5) toward their requirements. Courses offered in Half Block can be found in the Course Schedule under the Spring 2023 term and are listed under “H” Block. Students may only sign up for one Half Block course.

ICYMI: THE CRUMB LEGACY

The Colorado College Music Department honored the life and career of the late George Crumb with two concerts on Oct. 12-13, featuring works by Crumb and nine of his students, with performances by CC faculty, a student, and special guests.

The Crumb Legacy, Concert 1
Emmett Tucker ’24, piano, opens with Crumb’s A Little Suite for Christmas, A.D. 1979. Paul Nagem, flute, performs Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Ineffable, followed by Monica Ding, oboe, and Susan Grace, piano, with …where you end and i begin… by Robert Maggio. Jeri Jorgensen, violin, and Steven Beck, piano, follow with Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Hills of Mist, and then Beck performs solo on Michael Fiday’s Junkyard Angel. The program concludes with two movements from Echoes of Wilderness, a world premiere, composed by Music Department co-chair Ofer Ben-Amots and performed by the Academy Winds from the United States Air Force Academy Band.
Crumb Legacy Concert 2

The Crumb Legacy, Concert 2
Emmett Tucker ’24, piano, opens with selections from Crumb’s Makrokosmos, Volume I. Next, Paul Nagem, flute, Sergei Vassiliev, clarinet, and Susan Grace, piano, perform Jennifer Barker’s Ocean of Glass, followed by Jeri Jorgensen, violin, and Steven Beck, piano, with Variations in Form of a Sonata by Robert Patterson. Vassiliev and Grace then return for David Crumb’s Nocturne for piano and clarinet, followed by Pierre Jalbert’s Klang, performed by Quattro Mani (Grace-Beck piano duo) with John Kinzie on percussion. The concert closes with Quattro Mani performing the second movement of George Crumb’s Otherworldly Resonances.
Click here to see the full Crumb Legacy program
“The Crumb Connection” display was set up in the Packard Hall Lobby, with photographs, composition samples, and text written by musicologist Steven Bruns offering insight into Crumb’s life, works, and special connection to Colorado College.

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Colorado College Department of Music
Packard Hall
5 West Cache La Poudre St.
719-389-6545
music@coloradocollege.edu

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