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Carmen Moral Associate Professor Composition "A good conductor must be able to transmit with body language. In order to transmit, you need technique. You have to convey your intentions not with long speeches, but mainly with your gestures. I conducted an orchestra in China, and I do not speak Chinese. But I can communicate what I want, musically." Read more about Moral... More on the Faculty...

News, Events, and Music…

• Roots and Reason

  This year's Africana Studies music programming celebrates the richness of America's roots music traditions. Roots music grew out of the intermingling of influences across cultures. From this sharing of American cultures came spirituals, blues, gospel, folk, country, and bluegrass—the roots of all American popular music. More

• What's Happening at Berklee

  Every week publicist Mitzi Dorbu suggests choice concerts and events by students, faculty, alumni, and special guests on Berklee's campus and at locales around Boston and beyond. The sounds are exciting, many shows are free, and the music is as diverse as Berklee itself. More

• Sounds of Berklee Podcast

  Mississippi Delta blues guitarist Ben Payton will be the featured guest artist during the kickoff concert for Africana Studies' Roots and Reason series in February. The show will highlight gospel, bluegrass, and blues music. Get a jumpstart on the show by by listening to Payton's "Boogie Child." More