Global engagement is one of the core values and priorities of Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo. Dr. Maisie Sum has been appointed to a new faculty position in Global Music to expand and explore the study and performance of "world music" in the Music program.
Paraguay Primeval by Carol Ann Weaver is a musical work featuring stories of Mennonites who fled to Paraguay from Russian and Canada in the 1920s and beyond. This January 2013 Manitoba tour takes this music to some of the very people who were born in Paraguay but have moved back to Canada. It is the hope that their stories will be thus celebrated.
This Travel course takes place from June 6-23, 2013 and may be taken for credit as Music 355.
Experience the music and cultural life of London and Leipzig from the 16th Century to the present through concerts, museums, galleries and architecture and walking tours.
Courage for Lydia – a Noon Hour Concert for Lydia Herrle
Music by Waterloo composers Carol Ann Weaver and Joanne Bender
Wednesday, Oct. 12:30 Noon, 2012, Conrad Grebel Chapel
Free concert – all are welcome
Music 390/391 or PACS 301 for Winter 2013!
10:00am-11:20am Mondays & Wednesdays, CGC Rm 1300
This is a Music and PACS course about African music in response to peace and conflict.
Professor Ken Hull received an Award of Recognition from the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (LcMc).
“this trip absolutely changed my life, hands down!”
“It really was the trip of a lifetime!”
on UW’s South African Music and Culture Trip, May, 2012
by Professor Carol Ann Weaver, June 7, 2012
The 66th Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod takes place in Wales from July 3 - 8, 2012.
Six days of the best music and folk dance, and all the world in one place!
Every summer since 1947 Llangollen has staged one of the world’s most inspirational cultural festivals. Each year over 4,000 performers from across the globe head to the beautiful little Welsh town to take part in a unique event combining competition, performance, and international peace and friendship. Around 25 different competitions celebrate song, music and dance, climaxing with the prestigious ‘Choir of the World’ where winning choirs compete for the Pavarotti Trophy.
Congratulations to our Departmental Award winner for the 2011-12 year:
Jocelyn Burgmann, Honours Music
Sound in the Lands: Mennonite Music Across Borders book launch on Friday, October 28 at 12:30 pm at Conrad Grebel University College, room 1111.