About the Chapter:
This chapter provides an overview of several assignments and activities used to align academic and performance-based music curricula with the “Echoes of Exile” concert offered as part of the 2016-17 KHC-NEH Colloquium, “Fleeing Genocide: Displacement, Exile and the Refugee.” The concert featured exile-inspired works (including a new commission), traced genocide and refugee experiences through multiple generations, and highlighted the human dimension of displacement. Through various creative assignments that resulted in performances and written artifacts, students were invited to: listen and think critically and in context; engage with a wide range of musical testimonies; mediate between the self and ‘the other;’ more fully experience historical events; and examine the tradition and the inherent fluidity of all music, which parallels the refugee experience.
About the Authors:
Mirna Lekić, D.M.A. is an Associate Professor of Music at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. A pianist, she is active as a recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. Her recent publications include two critically acclaimed recordings: a debut solo album titled Masks (Centaur Records 3519), and Eastern Currents (Romeo Records 7320), a disc of contemporary chamber music. Lekić is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, the Mannes College of Music, and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. www.mirnalekic.com
André Brégégère, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor of Music at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, and William Patterson University. He received his doctorate in composition from the Graduate Center, CUNY, with a dissertation on the music and theoretical work of Henri Pousseur. His recent and ongoing scholarly work includes “Some Thoughts on Maximally Smooth Voice-Leading among pcsets and set classes” (SMT Arlington, 2017), and “The Serial Concept in Pousseur’s Votre Faust” (Oxford Handbook of Faustian Music, OUP, forthcoming). His music has been performed and broadcasted in the United States and Europe, and released on the label New Dynamic Records. www.abregegere.com
For more information about “Echoes of Exile” on April 20, 2017, click here.