CFA Announcements

Industrial Design 75th Anniversary Celebration
Event: 75th anniversary
Location: Carnegie Mellon Campus
Date: Saturday, Oct. 30-31
Time: All day events
Cost: Free

In October 2009, Carnegie Mellon's School of Design will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Industrial Design program with a series of events held on campus during homecoming weekend, October 30-31 2009.

Known as Carnegie Tech in 1934, our program was the first degree-granting Industrial Design program in the United States. Instrumental in founding our program were early Industrial Design pioneers Donald Dohner, Alexander Kostellow, and Robert Lepper. Today, our program continues their innovative vision and we continue to receive international recognition for excellence in industrial design education.

For more information visit, http://www.design.cmu.edu/show_news.php?id=227


Art Lecture Series: Paolo Pedercini
Event: School of Art Lecture Series
Location: McConomy Auditorium, campus
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 3
Time: 5 pm
Cost: Free

New visiting faculty in electronic and time-based media, Paolo Pedercini, has produced quirky online games since 2003 - addressing various social issues such as globalization, labor issues, religion and sexuality. His project "molleindustria" (Italian for soft industry) tries to tap the expressive and persuasive potential of the medium by turning upside-down well established genres and cliches. Exploiting the viral diffusion of contents on the net, his games reached millions of players without relying on commercial distribution channels and big budget productions.

For more information visit, http://lectureseri.es


Programming Mobile Phones
Event: STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Lecture/Workshop
Location: Carnegie Mellon Campus
Date: Friday, Nov. 6
Time: 10 am
Cost: Free


MUSIC EVENTS
For more information about music events visit http://www.music.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon Chamber Orchestra
Event: School of Music Performance
Location: Third Presbyterian Church, Fifth and Negley
Date: Sunday, Oct. 25
Time: 7 pm
Cost: Free

Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony 87

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenade for Winds in c minor K. 388

-Intermission-

György Ligeti - Ramifications

Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony 82


Bruce Brubaker, Piano Performance and Masterclass
Event: School of Music Performance and Masterclass
Location: Kresge Recital Hall, Campus
Date: Performance, Tuesday, Oct. 27; Masterclass, Wednesday, Oct. 28
Time: Performance, 8 pm; Masterclass, 12 pm
Cost: Free

Acclaimed for his subtle mastery of the classical repertory, Bruce Brubaker has become a champion of contemporary American music, particularly the works of composers Philip Glass and John Adams. Brubaker is creating a new role for the pianist. He is highly regarded for his innovative programming, often combining music with other media. He has recorded three CDs on the Arabesque label in a continuing series exploring American piano music. The newest, Hope Street Tunnel Blues, was released in 2007, and includes Brubaker's transcription of Knee Play 4 from Glass's opera Einstein on the Beach. Brubaker's CD Glass Cage, with pieces by Glass and John Cage, was named one of the ten best releases of 2000 by The New Yorker.

Brubaker has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, at Leipzig's Gewandhaus, and London's Wigmore Hall. He has premiered music by Glass, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and John Cage. He performed at Sanders Theater in collaboration with Cage during the composer's tenure as Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer at Harvard University. Of Brubaker's playing at a later recital at Harvard, the Boston Globe wrote: "A big-toned, brainy, firebrand kind of music making that made you think of-dare one say this?-Rudolf Serkin."


Carnegie Mellon Jazz Vocal Ensemble
Event: Carnegie Mellon Ensemble Performance
Location: Alumni Concert Hall, Campus
Date: Saturday, Oct. 31
Time: 8 pm
Cost: Free