Graduate Music Consortium to convene at UW-Madison

Graduate students from UW–Madison, Northwestern University and the University of Chicago will combine forces for the ninth annual conference for music graduate students to be held at UW–Madison on Friday-Saturday, Feb. 25-26.

Paper subjects, from presenters around the country, will range from jazz in East and West Berlin during the Cold War to music’s role in cinema to the music of Frank Zappa.

Richard Taruskin, professor of musicology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of the six-volume “Oxford History of Western Music” (Oxford University Press, 2004), will deliver the keynote address at 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 25, in the Fredric March Play Circle of the Memorial Union. At 7 p.m. on Friday, new music will be showcased in recital in Morphy Hall in the Mosse Humanities Building.

For more information, visit http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/mgmc.