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Event Spotlight

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December 5 | 7:30 p.m. EST

AU Symphonic Band and Orchestra will collaborate on Robert Spittal’s beautiful Pacem: A Hymn for Peace. Symphonic Band will present Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs by revered band composer Frank Ticheli, among other works. Symphony Orchestra will sink its teeth into a variety of repertoire for string ensemble, including Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. Get tickets for Dec. 5.


Selected Online Events

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Admissions Webinars

The music group "INTERFERENCE"

At AU Museum

  • Interference: A Virtual Music in the Museum
    December 3 | 7:30
    New music collective resumes their Music in the Museum series featuring music for ‘cello and computers. The program will be delivered as a livestream from the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, and will feature Kaija Saariaho’s iconic work, Petals; OUTPUT, a live bytebeat duo performance between Washington DC and Toronto; and the premiere of One of Eighty-Nine, by our 2020-2021 Emerging Composer, Antonio Forte. Register to receive the Interference livestream link.
  • Driven to Abstraction Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion
    Register for Screening & Panel
    Screening: December 6 & 7 (any time with screening link)
    Panel Discussion: December 8, 7:00-8:00 PM
Students onstage arms upraised with reflection behind.

Theatre Capstone Performances

January 22-23 | 7:30

Selections from plays written during the Great Depression through the Federal Writers' Project.

Recent Advances in Info-Metrics Research

April 8, 2021

In honor of Shannon's 105th Birthday, and in celebration of our recently edited book Advances in Info-Metrics: Information and Information Processing across Disciplines (Chen, Dunn, Golan, Ullah, OUP, 2021), we will have a one-day online workshop to discuss recent advances in info-metrics and information-theoretic inference. From the AU Info-Metrics Institute.