Princeton University Announces February On-Campus Culture Schedule
The Doos Trio will perform Feb. 13 at Princeton University.
An amalgam of culturally esoteric evenings continues tomorrow, Feb. 11, with “Livestock Exchange” (a longstanding concert series focusing on improvised music) with Ben Bennett, Pixel Tongue and Jeff Snyder. A conversation between Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor and Professor Deborah Amos will take place the following day with a demonstration of the kamancheh (an Iranian bowed stringed ax). On Thursday, Kalhor and his instrument will return for a “guided meditation” led by Professor Matthew Weiner (“no meditation experience is required”). That same day, The Doos Trio (pictured) will perform with Kalhor, Wu Man on his pipa (a traditional Chinese lute) and Sandeep Das on his tabla (hand drum from India). Just prior to the Doos Trio show, a “Do-Re-Meet Pre-Concert Speed Friend-ing” at Maclean House will give concertgoers a chance to mingle.
On Feb. 15, The Jazz Vocal Ensemble, directed by Michelle Lordi, with special guest Becca Stevens, will perform. On Feb. 19, in the Mendel Library Reading Room, Maria Ryan, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Florida State University, will speak about the legacy of enslaved women and how, as property, they held no rights to their own reproductive systems, thus children born to them were chattel, born out of sexual violence. The remaining vestiges of their life experiences, as documented by their watercolors and journals, are heartbreaking yet fascinating.
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On Feb. 20, The Takacs Quartet with pianist-composer Sir Stephen Hough perform Brahms. On Feb. 21, Sinfonia, conducted by Ruch Ochs, presents “A Night At The Opera.” On Feb 22, Arnie Tanimoto will perform on viola and cello. On Feb. 23, the Princeton University Glee Club (with full orchestra and soloists) plus, the Princeton Electronic Music Festival, will both perform in two different afternoon concerts.
On Feb. 25, Princeton Sound Kitchen presents vocal trio Modern Medieval Voices. On Feb. 27, Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal Isabelle Perentz will speechify about the “neurocognition of music.” And finally, on Feb. 28, The Princeton University Orchestra, conducted by Michael Pratt, will perform Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Schnittke.
For more information, visit https://concerts.princeton.edu/events/24-25-doostrio/.