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Lecture: Early Winds and British Influence

Lectures by Matthew Marsit, DCWE Director. Programmed in conjunction with Winds of Change, Part I: Early Innovators

Thursday, October 20, 2016
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Hop Garage 132, Hopkins Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts

Early Winds and British Influence

This free lecture by DCWE director Marsit starts in the 19th century, when wind bands served a military role around the globe—but had begun to play too well to remain strictly utilitarian! George Dyson, composition professor at Great Britain’s Royal College of Music, pleaded with his fellow composers to write great music for the wind band. Around the same time, the musicological work of Cecil Sharpe and others uncovered a wealth of folk melodies that often found their way into those compositions.

For more information, contact:
Samantha Candon
samantha.candon@dartmouth.edu
603-646-3531
Permanent URL to this event: https://music.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=42006

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