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New! Conversations with Music
RSVP: Jeanne Bamberger
When: Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 2:00-3:00 pm
This group will meet every other week
Where: Ashby Village, 1821 Catalina Ave., Berkeley
Open to: Members
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible
This group will focus on helping participants become more deeply intimate music listeners. At each meeting Jeanne will select a significant work from the classical repertoire and together we will explore how it evolves musically. For example, she will select a work for piano (perhaps a Haydn Sonata) that she will play and work with to expose significant themes and their transformations as it becomes an evolving, dramatic whole. Where possible, Jeanne will select a work that is about to be performed by the SF symphony or in one of the other local venues. No previous formal music preparation is needed.
About Jeanne Bamberger
Jeanne Bamberger is professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she taught music theory and music cognition. She is currently Adjunct Professor in the UC Berkeley Music Department. Bamberger takes an interdisciplinary stance that leads her to investigations of learning in other domains and to an interest in young children and their teachers. She was a student of Artur Schnabel and Roger Sessions and has performed in the US and Europe as piano soloist and in chamber music ensembles. Her most recent books include The mind behind the musical ear (Harvard University Press, 1995), Developing musical intuitions: A project based introduction to making and understanding music. (Oxford University Press, 2000), and Discovering the musical mind (Oxford Press, 2013).