_Face: The after-life of racial masquerade

____Face symposium is a daylong scholarly and performance event examining the history and cultural reverberations of racial masquerade. Specifically, the symposium looks to flip the script on past research that considers racial masquerade as a means of white identity formation, instead highlighting how scholars and artists of color engage with and subvert the performance technologies of black, red, yellow, brown, and whiteface as they have traveled across time, idiom, sense, and medium. 

Renegade Series: WindSync

Join 2016 Fischoff gold medalists WindSync for an interactive session about entrepreneurship and community engagement through chamber music. The group is known for initiatives that harness unconventional performance practices, creative placemaking based on civic design, and educational outreach. WindSync will perform excerpts from its concert programming and share ideas about turning your passion project into a career in music.

U.S. Marine Band Public Concert - February 2017

“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band performs a concert titled “Wanderers,” conducted by Major Michelle A. Rakers. The performance will feature music that was created out of personal journeys, whether those journeys were metaphorically through one’s own creative development or in the literal sense of actual traveling. Highlights include John Philip Sousa’s The Grand Promenade at the White House (Coronation March) from Tales of a Traveler, Scott Lindroth’s Passage, Ottorino Respighi’s The Pines of Rome, and a Charles Ives Song Set.

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