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Valerie Alhart is press officer for humanities and broadcast media, and covers humanities and the arts at the University.

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The Arts
January 29, 2016 | 12:07 pm

Institute for Popular Music pays tribute to progressive rock

The 2015-2016 “In Performance” concert series continues on Saturday, Feb. 6, with a concert celebrating a genre that Institute for Popular Music director John Covach describes as “often overlooked by rock ‘n’ roll establishments like the Hall of Fame.”

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, events, Institute for Popular Music, Institute for the Performing Arts, John Covach, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
January 11, 2016 | 04:03 pm

Rock history remembers David Bowie

David Bowie, who died Sunday at the age of 69, wasn’t the first performer to create an alter ego. But as music professor and director of the Institute for Popular Music John Covach explains, the difference with Bowie was how his personas would change over the years, sometimes shifting drastically.

topics: featured-post, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach,
The Arts
December 2, 2015 | 11:34 am

Compartmented: Regional artists to perform in historic space

Seventeen artists from the region will take over ‘The Sunday School’ located in the back of the Rochester Lyric Opera Theatre for two evenings of site-specific installations, dance, and performance art organized by the University’s Program of Dance and Movement.

topics: events, Missy Pfohl Smith, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
October 20, 2015 | 02:39 pm

A Halloween dance/theater event: When the Souls Rise

University of Rochester’s Program of Dance and Movement’s presents When the Souls Rise, an original production that celebrates Halloween through dance, music, and drama. This is the first time the show will be performed at a university.

topics: Anne Harris Wilcox, Arts and Humanities, events, Program of Dance and Movement, School of Arts and Sciences,
Society & Culture
October 19, 2015 | 04:51 pm

New book novelizes rise and fall of Rochester’s infamous mediums

Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters, a new book published by the University’s Open Letter Press, details the rise and fall of the infamous 12 and 15-year-old mediums who convinced the world they could communicate with dead.

topics: Department of English, Jennifer Grotz, literary translation, Open Letter, School of Arts and Sciences, translation,
The Arts
October 16, 2015 | 03:31 pm

Author Jacinda Townsend to receive 2015 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction

The award is being given for Townsend’s debut novel Saint Monkey, which was named by The Root as one of the 15 best works published by black authors in 2014.

topics: announcements, Arts and Humanities, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, literature, School of Arts and Sciences, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies,
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