Low Key Lectures: What Made the Beatles So Special?
About this Event
We are thrilled to welcome Mark Applebaum, composer and professor at Stanford University, who will teach us just what made the Beatles so unique.
Thirteen albums. Seven short years. And yet the Beatles evolved so much over that time and changed music for decades to come.
Was it their innate musical ability? Was it their creative songwriting? Was it their commitment to experimentation and a changing sound? Or was it simply their charm?
Join us for a night exploring the Beatles, and you will leave hearing them in a new light.
Mark Applebaum, Ph.D. is the Edith & Leland Smith Professor of Composition at Stanford University, currently teaching songwriting and the popular music history course Rock, Sex, & Rebellion. His solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and electroacoustic work has been performed throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia, including notable commissions from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Fromm Foundation, the Spoleto Festival, the Kronos Quartet, Chamber Music America, Ensemble Talea, and the Vienna Modern Festival. Many of his pieces are characterized by challenges to the conventional boundaries of musical ontology: works for three conductors and no players, a concerto for florist and orchestra, pieces for instruments made of junk, notational specifications that appear on the faces of custom wristwatches, works for an invented sign language choreographed to sound, amplified Dadaist rituals, silent “potential” music that allow listeners to infer sound, a chamber work comprised of obsessive page turns, and a 72-foot long graphic score displayed in a museum and accompanied by no instructions for its interpretation. His TED talk has been seen by more than five million viewers. Applebaum is also an accomplished jazz pianist and builds electroacoustic sound-sculptures out of junk, hardware, and found objects, and he has been awarded by the American Academy of Arts & Letters. At Stanford Applebaum is the founding director of [sic]—the Stanford Improvisation Collective. He has served on the boards of Other Minds and soundSCAPE, and is a trustee of Carleton College.
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