Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama

Manchester University Baroque Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 28 March 2014
The University of Manchester’s very own Baroque Orchestra presents a varied programme of well-known concerti grossi by Corelli and Handel interspersed with some gems from the chamber…

CIDRAL Open Event: Paul Heggarty (Linguistics, Max Plank Institute, University of Leipzig): 'Ruins and Beyond: Converging Archaeology, Genes and Language, For a Richer Tale of Our Origins'

17:00 - 19:00 1 April 2014
An interview with Paul Heggarty can be found on the Cambridge University Press website: http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2014/03/archaeology-and-language For more information on Paul Heggarty…

Gamelan Degung

13:10 - 14:00 3 April 2014
The University of Manchester’s music students with guests Programme to include: Traditional and contemporary Sundanese music University of Manchester music students, with guests,…

Electroacoustic Works

13:10 - 14:00 4 April 2014
Manchester University Music Society showcases the University’s electroacoustic composers in this unique performance – experience the highly inventive explorations of sound from undergraduate…

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:30 - 21:30 4 April 2014
Certain to entertain any audience, Manchester University Big Band returns to deliver an exciting and energetic set, filled with popular tunes you’ll be humming all night long! Be sure…

A concert to celebrate the life and work of Stephen Dodgson

14:00 - 16:00 5 April 2014
Join us in a Celebration of the Life and Work of STEPHEN DODGSON (1924-2013) Programme to include: Regumar for recorder guitar and marimba (premiere) Riley and Co. for baritone,…

Poems and Songs by Bertolt Brecht

18:00 - 19:30 9 April 2014
The great German playwright Bertolt Brecht was also a consummate poet and song writer. Tom Kuhn and Dominic Muldowney, alongside actors and singers, present new translations of some of his greatest poems and songs

Black Box Theatre Company present Romeo and Juliet

13:00 - 15:30 23 April 2014
Violent delights have violent ends...” Following the success of Othello, award winning Black Box Theatre Company presents a bold and exciting new production of Shakespeare’s most…

Black Box Theatre Company Presents: Romeo and Juliet

19:00 - 21:30 23 April 2014
Violent delights have violent ends...” Following the success of Othello, award winning Black Box Theatre Company presents a bold and exciting new production of Shakespeare’s most…

Black Box Theatre Company presents: Romeo and Juliet

10:00 - 12:30 24 April 2014
Violent delights have violent ends...” Following the success of Othello, award winning Black Box Theatre Company presents a bold and exciting new production of Shakespeare’s most…

Black Box Theatre Company presents: Romeo and Juliet

14:00 - 16:30 24 April 2014
Violent delights have violent ends...” Following the success of Othello, award winning Black Box Theatre Company presents a bold and exciting new production of Shakespeare’s most…

Black Box Theatre Company presents: Romeo and Juliet

10:00 - 12:30 25 April 2014
Violent delights have violent ends...” Following the success of Othello, award winning Black Box Theatre Company presents a bold and exciting new production of Shakespeare’s most…

Trio Atem

13:10 - 14:00 1 May 2014
Helmut Lachenmann temA Fabrice Fitch Per Serafino Calbarsi III: Antistrophes (world première) Camden Reeves The Sleeper (world première) Gavin Osborn (flutes), Nina Whiteman (mezzo…

Visual Dialogues

19:00 - 21:00 1 May 2014
Dr Mantas Kvedaravicius will present his documentary film Barzakh (Lithuania/ Finland, 2011) on life in a Chechen city recovering after the war. Those in search of the disappeared are…

Manchester University Commissioning Ensemble (MUCE)

13:10 - 14:00 2 May 2014
MUCE is a new, student-run initiative dedicated to showcasing the compositional talent that students, staff and University alumni have to offer. Composers are offered a unique opportunity…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Kate Fisher (Director of Centre for Medical History) with Dr Rebecca Langlands (University of Exeter): 'Pansexual Provocations among the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum'

17:00 - 19:00 6 May 2014
Pansexual provocations in the ruin of Pompeii and Herculaneum: Ruins – the partial remnants of the past – are in themselves a provocation; the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum,…

Divisional seminar for Art History, Drama & Music

16:15 8 May 2014
Dr Rachel Clements (Drama), Professor Mark Crinson (AHVS), Professor Thomas Schmidt (Music)

QUATUOR DANEL Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 8 May 2014
Dvo?ák Terzetto for two violins and viola, Op. 74; Kodály Trio in E flat for two violins and viola (1899); Two melodious trios from Central and Eastern Europe for the rarely…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Doctors and Philosophers of Composition

14:30 - 15:30 8 May 2014
The Quatuor Danel workshops quartets by the University’s PhD students.

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 9 May 2014
Haydn Quartet in in C, Op. 76 No. 3 (‘Emperor’); Haydn Quartet in D minor, Op. 103; Dvo?ák Piano Quintet in A (with David Fanning); Haydn’s famous ‘Emperor’ Quartet,…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Svetlana Boym (Harvard) 'Embarrassing Monumentality'

17:00 - 19:00 13 May 2014
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Public Lecture. Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture hosted by Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago, and Editor of Critical Inquiry

16:00 - 18:00 21 May 2014
Public Lecture. Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture hosted by Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago, and Editor of…

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