April 3, 2015
The Lewis Center for the Arts presents
A Master Class and Interview with Grammy and Emmy-nominated
conductor Judith Clurman
Public invited to observe as part of spring theater course on
the Broadway musical
taught by Professor Stacy Wolf
Photo caption: Grammy and Emmy-nominated conductor, educator and
choral specialist Judith Clurman
Photo credit: Frank Wang
Who: Grammy and Emmy-nominated conductor, educator, and choral
specialist Judith Clurman
What: Master class with Princeton students and interview
When: Tuesday, April 14 at 1:30 p.m.
Where: Room 219 at 185 Nassau St. on the campus of Princeton
University
Free and open to the public to observe
(PRINCETON, NJ) Grammy and Emmy-nominated conductor,
educator, and choral specialist Judith Clurman will hold a master
class with Princeton students followed by an interview on Tuesday,
April 14 at 1:30 p.m., which is free and open to the public to
observe. The event is one in a series of guest artist visits to
Professor of Theater Stacy Wolf’s spring course, “Isn’t It
Romantic? The Broadway Musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein to
Sondheim.” The event will be held in Room 219 at 185 Nassau
Street.
Judith Clurman has worked in a diverse range of musical genres
from Milton Babbit to Sesame Street. She has commissioned and
premiered works by over fifty American composers including Babbit,
Marvin Hamlisch, Nico Muhly, Stephen Paulus, Christopher Rouse, and
Howard Shore. While Clurman’s work has taken her to many
prestigious performance spaces, perhaps her most familiar residence
was on television’s Sesame Street. Her collaboration with the
Muppets as associate music director earned a 2009 Emmy nomination
for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition. Her
work on a recording with Son Sonora Voices earned her multiple
Latin Grammy nominations. She conducted “The Music In My Mind” for
Hamlisch’s children’s book.
Her educational work has included programs at The Julliard
School, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Columbia
University, Curtis Institute of Music, the Zimriya at Hebrew
University (Israel), and the Janacek Academy of Music and
Performing Arts (Czech Republic).
Currently, she conducts Essential Voices USA, which is in
residence with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and performs
programs at the DiMenna Space for Classical Music. She has recorded
for New World, Sono Luminos, and Delos, and has been published by
and edited works for G. Schirmer, Hal Leonard, Schott, Subito, and
Boosey & Hawkes. She is a member of the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers’ Special Classification Committee
and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Previous guests to Wolf’s class throughout the semester included
Grammy Award-winning Broadway composer Paul Bogaev, arts
administrator and producer Howard Sherman, and theatrical producer
and president of Disney Theatrical Group Thomas Schumacher.
Wolf is a professor of theater and director of the Princeton
Arts Fellows in the Lewis Center where she teaches courses in
American musical theatre history, dramaturgy and dramatic
literature, histories of U.S. performance, performance theory, and
performance studies. Wolf is the author of Changed for Good: A
Feminist History of the Broadway Musical; A Problem Like Maria:
Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical; and the co-editor of
The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical. She has published
articles on theatre spectatorship, performance pedagogy, and
musical theatre in many journals, including Theatre Journal, Modern
Drama, and Camera Obscura. She was the editor of Theatre Topics: A
Journal of Pedagogy and Praxis from 2001 to 2003. She also
directs the Lewis Center’s Music Theater Lab and has experience as
a theater director and dramaturg.
To learn more about this event, the Music Theater Lab, and the
more than 100 events presented annually by the Lewis Center for the
Arts visit arts.princeton.edu.
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