Paper Session 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.Paper Session 2: 12:00 p.m.-1 p.m.Roundtable: 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m.Keynote Address: 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. "Listening to Kafka at 100" attends to the sonic landscape of Kafka that has emerged in the century since his death. Despite his self-confessed unmusicality, Kafka's associations with sound, noise, and music have become the subject of recent scholarship. In addition to these sonic affiliations, Kafka’s voice continues to echo through art and literature, philosophy and psychology, theory and politics. The conference seeks not only to explore the sonic symptoms of modernity resonating in Kafka’s oeuvre, but to make audible echoes of the Kafkaesque that continue to reverberate throughout global culture, both high and low.There will be two panels of papers, and a keynote address given by Kata Gellen, associate professor of German studies and Jewish studies at Duke University.   This mini-conference is free and open to the public.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.

TICKETS available here Notre Dame Children's Choir 2024 Spring Gala Concert and Silent Auction- Saturday, April 13, in the LaBar Performance Hall inside O'Neill Hall of Music 7-10pm.Tickets are $40 per person, table of 8 for $300. Celebrate our 11th year providing free music education and performing opportunities to children in the South Bend region.  Music provided by the NDCC directors/Sacred Music graduate students.  Tickets include live music, hors d'oeuvres, desserts and fellowship with NDCC Friends! Student 50% Discount code: NDCC24.   Originally published at sma.nd.edu.

The Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra's spring chamber recital will showcase the orchestra's members through brass and wind quintets, a string quartet, string duo and trombone quartet. Set in the intimate organ hall, join us for works by Borodin, Halvorsen, and more.After the recital, be sure to also attend Tales From the Nine Bells, performed by Notre Dame's own Patrick Yim as he showcases works by Chen Yi and Zhou Long. RESERVE TICKETS

In an exciting collaboration exploring creative dialogues between musical traditions and meaningful transnational sonic encounters, violinist/violist Patrick Yim, assistant professor in the Department of Music at Notre Dame, performs music showcasing the creative ingenuity of two of the most celebrated Chinese-American composers active today: Chen Yi and Zhou Long.The world premiere of Bamboo Grove, a newly composed solo violin work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, will be performed by Yim at the concert. The program also includes another masterpiece by Zhou, the haunting, atmospheric Tales from the Nine Bells, a chamber work for violin, viola, clarinet, and piano commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and inspired by the Chinese folk legend.The second half features the viola in two works by Chen Yi, winner of the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Xian Shi for viola, percussion, and piano (the first viola concerto by a Chinese composer) and Suite for Viola and Chamber Winds inspired by traditional Chinese instruments. GET TICKETS

Music of Chen Yi and Zhou Long In an exciting collaboration exploring creative dialogues between musical traditions and meaningful transnational sonic encounters, violinist/violist Patrick Yim, assistant professor in the Department of Music at Notre Dame, performs music showcasing the creative ingenuity of two of the most celebrated Chinese-American composers active today: Chen Yi and Zhou Long.The world premiere of Bamboo Grove, a newly composed solo violin work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, will be performed by Yim at the concert. The program also includes another masterpiece by Zhou, the haunting, atmospheric Tales from the Nine Bells, a chamber work for violin, viola, clarinet, and piano commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and inspired by the Chinese folk legend.The second half features the viola in two works by Chen Yi, winner of the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Xian Shi for viola, percussion, and piano (the first viola concerto by a Chinese composer) and Suite for Viola and Chamber Winds inspired by traditional Chinese instruments. There will be a masterclass featuring Department of Music students on  Friday, April 12 from 10 to 11 a.m. in the LaBar Recital Hall in O'Neill Hall of Music.In a special appearance, Chen Yi and Zhou Long will provide insight into their works from the stage. This performance is complemented by a public lecture with the composers titled "Cultural Confluence in the Music of Chen Yi and Zhou Long" on Monday, April 15, 2024, at noon, in the LaBar Performance Hall, sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies and the Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame.Composers Zhou Long (2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner) and Chen Yi (2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) are honored for their music's masterful integration of Chinese culture. Well-versed in the musical traditions of China and the U.S. — both trained at the elite Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and Columbia University in New York — Chen and Zhou's music challenges stereotypes of the affordances of Western instruments and ensembles. Their craft is appreciated around the globe, with their music performed by an illustrious cast of musicians, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and Yo-Yo Ma. Part of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Presenting Series and co-sponsored by the Department of Music. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

Streaming Link: https://youtube.com/live/gOAdLsSUEvI?feature=shareJoin the Notre Dame Children's Liturgical Choir in person or online for Vespers at Saint Mary's College in the beautiful Church of Our Lady of Loretto. Originally published at sma.nd.edu.