Music Fridays @ Noon

MUSIC FRIDAYS @ NOON

The COD music faculty created Music Fridays @ Noon to showcase student, faculty, alumni and guest artists in a free, accessible daytime series of music performances and related events. The series is open to the entire COD community as a place where a broad spectrum of music is on display.

January 2019
25        Student Spotlight – Parallel Octaves (MAC Lobby)

February 2019
1          Faculty Recital – Carolyn May, flute, & Cindy Trowbridge, piano, Rondos for Flute
8          Guest Speaker – Music Director of Bollywood Boulevard, a featured show at the MAC with dance, live music, storytelling and stunning visuals brings 100 year history of Hindi cinema to the stage.
15        Guest/Faculty Recital – Fourth Coast Ensemble and Lee Kesselman, piano
22        Guest Speaker – Dan Bindert, WDCB Station Manager, Jazz – American Art Form or World Music? presented in collaboration with COD Humanities Festival

March 2019
1          Guest Artists – Guest Artists – Arabic Dance & Drumming with Iranian Dance Class Don Skoog & DeLayne Doyle, percussion, Maria Mobasseri, Arabic & Iranian dance
8          Guest Artist – Erik Skov Liminality, a jazz combo
15        Student Recital
22        Student Spotlight/Masterclass – COD Chamber Singers perform for a member of legendary music group Take 6, who will be in concert that evening at the MAC
29        No Event

April 2019
5          Guest Artist – Chinese Zither Artist Menghua Guan recital and demonstration
12        Faculty Spotlight – Tom Tallman, Pops, Prez, Sun Ra and Anatomy of a Hit
19      Student Spotlight – COD Percussion Ensemble “Heartbeat: The Joy of Rhythm from Around the World Sponsored in part by the COD Global Educational Initiative
26        Student Spotlight – COD’s Got Talent (Belushi Hall)

May 2019
3          Student Recital
10        Student Recital

All events are free and begin at noon in MAC Room 140
For more information, contact Lee Kesselman kesselma@cod.edu
For ADA accommodations, call 930.942.2141 (voice) or 630.858.9692 (TDD). Please call two weeks in advance.

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All events are free and begin at noon in MAC Room 140
For more information, contact Lee Kesselman kesselma@cod.edu