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Buxtehude and Bach At NICE

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

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COLE CHAPEL WHEATON COLLEGE

The Norton Institute for Continuing Education (NICE) announces its??first open??lecture of the 2016 – 2017 academic year. This presentation will be held at Wheaton?? (Norton, MA) College’s Cole Chapel, Main Quadrangle, ??26 East Main Street, Norton,?? MA,??and??is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.??????????????????????????????????????????????

The North German Organ and the Music of Buxtehude and Bach

By Dr. William MacPherson??

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

1:30 ??? 2:30 pm??????????????????????????????????

Wheaton College, Cole Chapel

Dr. MacPherson will discuss Baroque period organ music and will play selections to illustrate his talk.

Dr. MacPherson???s main interests are: ??? Music history in the Western European tradition, especially that of the 16th-18th centuries; his doctoral research was on 17th-c. English popular and dance music.

  • Organ and piano performance and instruction.??
  • Accompanying and chamber music.
  • Music criticism and writing about music.??

Music technology.

Dr. William MacPherson is Professor of Music at Wheaton College.

NICE, a non-profit affiliate of the Road Scholar??(formerly named Elderhostel) Institute Network??and a collaborative effort of Wheaton College and Epoch Assisted Living of Norton, provides non-credit nominally-priced college-level liberal arts courses and free lectures for over-55 year-olds living primarily in the Norton, Attleboro, Mansfield, Sharon, Foxboro, Taunton, Stoughton, Easton, and Canton areas.