Colgate Department of Music presents: Journey West

November 1st, 2024 at 7pm

"Gateways Through Music"

The Mission of Journey West is to celebrate diversity while providing an exciting musical and educational experience for our audiences. Journey West donates 5% of their income to the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees and the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music 

Journey West is a musical program chronicling the migration of melody through an interactive aural and visual lecture and performance.

Our trek tracks melodies and changing instrumentation beginning in the Middle East, traveling through Eastern and Western Europe, and finally arriving in the United States.

The program illustrates the primary factors involved in carrying melodies to distant land: wars, imperialism, nomadic dispersion, mass emigrations due to political oppression, and musical crazes that sweep the globe. The musical performance is presented with changing PowerPoint slides to help illustrate the regional and musical differences encountered on the Journey West. The musicians offer demonstrations on their respective instruments and provide basic theoretical explanations to accompany the technical examples.

Learn more here: journeywestmusic.com