Name: Playing the Imaginary
Start: 2025-03-27T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-27T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Aidekman Arts Center

Playing the Imaginary

As the public center for visual arts at Tufts University, the Art Galleries create a dynamic learning space through a responsive program of contemporary art exhibitions, events, collecting, and scholarship, across our two locations in Medford and Boston. We are driven by our belief in the impact of art and artists on our world and grounded in the values of care, learning, dialogue, and the creative process.

Tufts University Art Galleries

Join TUAG and the Tufts New Music Ensemble for a performance of selections from Tom Johnson's "Imaginary Music" series.

Aidekman Arts Center

Join Tufts University Art Galleries on March 27 at 5PM to hear the Tufts New Music Ensemble (with special guest John McDonald), perform a selection from Tom Johnson’s Imaginary Music series (1974-1975, 1993). Containing a total of 104 scores, these drawings of musical symbols or loose suggestions of notes promote non-linear interpretations and Johnson used them as tools to imagine new musical possibilities.Tufts New Music Ensemble (NME) is a student group of adventurous musicians that brings together the classically-trained, self-taught, and experimentally-minded in an eclectic group that improvises and creates its own programs under the direction of Donald Berman.John McDonald is Professor of Music, NME Co-Founder, and Tom Johnson enthusiast. He is a composer who tries to play the piano and a pianist who tries to compose, and has been described as “the New England master of the short piece.” His research interests include composition and new music pedagogy; intermedia collaboration involving composing and performing solo and chamber music; writing for young and non-professional performers; music applications for visual art and science; and advocacy of new and overlooked composers through research and performance.Donald Berman is recognized as a chief exponent of new works by living composers, overlooked music by 20th century masters, and recitals that link classical and modern repertoires. His two-volume The Unknown Ives and The Uncovered Ruggles represents the only recordings of the complete short piano works of Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles extant. Berman teaches at the Longy School of Music at Bard University, Tufts University, and is a Radcliffe Institute Fellow. He is President of The Charles Ives Society.

Our {communityGuidelinesLink} describe the sort of content we prohibit on Eventbrite. If you suspect an event may be in violation, you can report it to us so we can investigate.

To report other categories of prohibited or illegal content, submit {link}

Playing the Imaginary

More events from Tufts University Art Galleries

Discover more events from Tufts University Art Galleries, from Arts to other experiences you might love.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all events in Medford and filter by date, category, and more to find the perfect fit.

Playing the Imaginary

More events from Tufts University Art Galleries

Discover more events from Tufts University Art Galleries, from Arts to other experiences you might love.

You might also like...

Browse more events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all events in Medford and filter by date, category, and more to find the perfect fit.