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<p>This year’s Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners will give Cornell students a host of new opportunities and experiences – from building their own musical instruments to using new software programs for imaging dynamic processes inside the human body.</p>
<p>Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/program/faculty-fellowship/">Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program</a>.</p><p>The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.</p>
Anna Magdalena Bach has been called “history’s most famous musical wife and mother.”
<p>Explore treasures of Sephardic Jewish music culture at Book of J’s performance of “LA Archivera” on Monday, Nov. 11, at 8 pm in Cornell University’s Barnes Hall Auditorium. The free event will feature mid-century Los Angeles and 20th-Century Jewish Ottoman music traditions. The public is invited.</p>
"The import of the discovery didn’t hit me until...a curator of the archive said, ‘I think you’ve just discovered a lost Lou Reed album.’”
<p>In <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-i-discovered-a-dozen-new-lou-reed-songs/2019/11/01/44377214-fb53-11e9-8906-ab6b60de9124_story.html">this Washington Post opinion piece</a>, Judith Peraino, music professor, describes her amazing discovery of unknown Lou Reed songs at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.</p>
Cornell professor Benjamin Piekut’s latest book is an exhaustive study of an experimental British group that blurred the lines between genres as it created captivating music.
<p>The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble presents two days of Indonesian performances at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art with visiting guest artists from Java and Bali. On Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m., guest artists Gusti Sudarta (Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar) and Darsono Hadiraharjo (SEAP Visiting Critic) will perform excerpts of traditional wayang (shadow puppetry), providing audiences a rare opportunity to experience both Balinese and Javanese forms of this vital art form.</p>
The Cornell Symphony Orchestra's principal flautist performed Georges Hüe’s Fantaisie for Flute and Piano.
<p>Cornell’s Department of Music is collaborating with performers from Ithaca College and the community to offer Ithaca Sounding 2020, a multi-day, multi-venue event Jan. 30-Feb. 2.</p><p>The festival and symposium will feature concerts, workshops, talks, presentations and readings focused on modernist and experimental concert music by Ithacans past and present, including keyboard composers Julius Eastman, Sarah Hennies, Robert Palmer, Ann Silsbee and David Borden.</p>
<p>The strange oscillations that first emanated from the small synthesizer factory of Robert Moog, Ph.D. ’65, more than a half-century ago in the quiet village of Trumansburg, New York, have become signature sounds reverberating throughout the history of electronic music – from Wendy Carlos to Daft Punk; from Emerson, Lake and Palmer to Flying Lotus.</p>
<p>The four faculty teams that received funding support through the <a href="https://president.cornell.edu/initiatives/cornell-in-nyc/">President’s Visioning Committee on Cornell in New York City</a> have conducted cross-campus workshops, hosted interdisciplinary talks and expanded their outreach as they move towards presenting final results in the fall.</p>
<p>Cornell and the Ithaca community celebrated the life, work and influence of synthesizer inventor Robert Moog, Ph.D. ’65, with three days of events March 5-7.</p>
Cornell's Center for Teaching Innovation is helping faculty prepare for the shift to virtual learning April 6.
<p dir="ltr"> One of the most distinctive aspects of college is a capella. It only takes a few weeks for the never-ending string of showcases and concerts to begin. Posters are plastered all over campus, and Ho Plaza is dominated by quarter cards. From the spontaneous arch sings to the nonstop Facebook invites, a capella groups are persistent to no end. What drives this persistence, though, is the immense loyalty and commitment that a capella fosters among its members.</p>
<p> <em>This column was written before our current remote learning model, so while Eric isn't on campus enjoying creating music with his peers, he is working remotely on his musical pursuits and other classes.</em></p><p> As a senior, I've wrapped things up with my major and will spend my last semester pursuing the things I really enjoy. Looking back at what I've done, I think that music has been the biggest and most important influence on my undergrad experience.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> Previously in these blogs I’ve written about how I became involved in a group I never thought I would join: HanChum Traditional Korean Dance Team. I joined the fall semester of my freshman year, and now I’m six semesters in and absolutely loving the experience. I’m not Korean, and I had never done any kind of traditional dancing.</p>
<p>Social distancing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 canceled the last two shows of the spring 2020 <a href="http://www.cornellconcertseries.com/">Cornell Concert Series</a>, challenging organizers to connect performers with fans in new ways.</p>
<p>The more than 200 members of Cornell’s choral groups may not be able to sing together each week, but they are still spending time listening and sharing their love of music virtually, with a host of guest visitors this semester.</p>
<p>Two 21st-century works for recorder and orchestra by Cornell faculty composers are included in a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wqxr.org/story/recorder-pieces-you-wishing-never-gave-recorder/&source=gmail&ust=1587838455947000&usg=AFQjCNEHHlWTfQ3Ezn9xXR5znfq0qa4gww" href="https://www.wqxr.org/story/recorder-pieces-you-wishing-never-gave-recorder/" target="_blank">recent feature </a>by New York City classical radio station WQXR.</p>
The department is sharing a variety of faculty and student projects on a new Quarantunes page.
<p> Raven Schwam-Curtis ’20 had seen the coronavirus coming: She visited China and South Korea on a research trip over winter break, when the first cases were being reported there.</p><p> But she was still confronted with financial and emotional disruption when the pandemic forced Cornell to abruptly suspend classes in mid-March and switch to remote learning April 6, following spring break.</p>
<h3> Marta Faulkner<br /> Mathematics & Music<br /> Canyon City, OR</h3><p> <strong>Why did you choose Cornell?</strong></p>
Fitz Gibbon and McCullough have been working together since 2006 and gave their first duo recital in 2009.
