Lansky
Princeton University music department is set to present a concert honoring faculty member Paul Lansky.
Lansky, a professor and composer, is set to retire at the end of the spring semester after 45 years on Princeton faculty.
Born in 1944 to a recording engineer father and a politically progressive mother, Lansky was named for famed African American bass Paul Robeson and grew up in the Crotona Park neighborhood of the South Bronx. He attended the High School for Music and Art in Manhattan.
Lansky went on to receive an undergraduate degree is from Queens College, where he pursued composition and French Horn. He received his graduate degree from Princeton, studying with Milton Babbitt and Earl Kim, and joined the faculty in 1969. He retires as William Shubael Conant Professor of Music.
The all Lansky program is set to feature performances by So Percussion, guitarist David Starobin and the janus trio.
The program includes Lansky’s Partly Pavane, Gigue, Book of Memory, and Threads.
The concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. May 17 at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall.
This concert is free, however reservations are required. For tickets, call (609) 258-9220.
More information is online at princeton.edu.
