Sonic Frontiers

Free Admission The University of Alabama’s Sonic Frontiers concert series presents its first transcontinental, telematic concert!  Norwegian-French quartet Dans les arbres will perform at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs simultaneously with theDewar/Feeney/Hopson Trio at the University of Alabama, connected via high-speed internet2. Telematic concerts unite artists over the web in real-time, creating new forms of collaborative

This residency is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton will spend a week at the Capstone in spring 2015 thanks to a major National Endowment for the Arts grant won by Dr. Andrew Raffo Dewar, Associate Professor in New College and the School

A duo concert by UK pioneers of free jazz Trevor Watts (saxophones) and Veryan Weston (piano). Trevor Watts was a founding member of the seminal English group Spontaneous Music Ensemble that began in 1965 with John Stevens & Paul Rutherford, and subsequently included Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Dave Holland & Kenny Wheeler, amongst others. Watts