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<p>Alejandro L. Madrid, associate professor of music, has won the 2016 Humanities Book Award from the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for his most recent book, In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13 (Oxford University Press, 2015). The prize is awarded annually to an outstanding and original contribution to the study of Mexico in book-length academic monographs and works published during the previous year.</p>
<p>At the <a href="http://cny2016.thatcamp.org/">Central New York THAT (The Humanities and Technology) Camp</a> held in Olin Library, there were no official presenters, while participants voted on workshop topics and met in collaborative sessions.</p><p>The informal structure suited the subject matter, since digital humanities is a relatively new and rapidly evolving field.</p>
<h3>Patrick Braga</h3><h3>Economics, Music, Urban and Regional Studies</h3><h3>Sarasota, FL</h3><p><strong>What was your most profound turning point while at Cornell?</strong></p><p>I decided to declare a dual-degree with music between my sophomore and junior years, and I am so glad I did. The music major has opened so many doors for creative development and created an incredible number of opportunities.</p>
<h3>Lauren Blacker</h3><h3>Biology and Society</h3><h3>Chicago, IL</h3><p><style type="text/css"><!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/<!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->/*--><!]]]]><![CDATA[>*//*--><!]]>*/</style><strong>What is your main extracurricular activity? Why is it important to you?</strong></p>
<h3>Sarah McDonald</h3><h3>Music & English</h3><h3>Essex, CT</h3><p><style type="text/css"><!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/<!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->/*--><!]]]]><![CDATA[>*//*--><!]]>*/</style><strong>What is your main extracurricular activity? W</strong><strong>hy is it important to you?</strong></p>
<p>Cornell University’s Department of Music, under the artistic direction of pianists Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, will present its ninth springtime festival of world-class chamber music in Ithaca May 20–24. <a href="http://mayfest-cornell.org.">Mayfest </a>will offer six intimate concerts in four inspiring locations: Cornell’s Barnes Hall, Klarman Hall, Lab of Ornithology, and the Carriage House Café.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://cca.cornell.edu/">Cornell Council for the Arts</a> (CCA) has awarded grants supporting 40 projects, many involving students and faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences, to be presented or performed during the 2016-17 academic year.</p>
<p>Students from throughout the college were honored recently for their accomplishments.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Doctoral student Tonia Ko was one of nine classical composers to win a Student Composer Award May 16 from Broadcast Music, Inc. The awards are given to composers age 15-27 who are recognized for their superior musical compositional abilities. The students are awarded scholarship grants, which help them with their musical education.</p>
<p>The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) 2016 Biennial, “Abject/Object Empathies,” will feature 12 new projects by invited artists, Cornell faculty members and students. Most of the works will be presented on campus between Sept. 15 and Dec. 22, all on the theme of the cultural production of empathy.</p>
<p>“We can hear the universe” declared researchers at LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) announcing the first detection of a gravitational wave last year.</p><p>By capturing a sonic translation of two black holes colliding more than a billion years ago, scientists had finally achieved what ancient scholars had long dreamed of: translating the “music of the spheres” into sound humans can hear.</p>
<p>Fifty student musicians traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on a tour that was “genuinely transformative."</p>
<p>Six new projects will be launched in music, classics, economics, mathematics, physics and sociology.</p>
<p>Five student musicians, calling themselves The Original Cornell Syncopators, are celebrating the centennial of the first jazz record's release by recreating the historic recording session. </p>
<p>Cornell’s “radical collaboration” initiatives – <a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/10/provost-launches-initiatives-supporting-radical-collaboration">launched last fall</a> as a series of provost’s task forces targeting faculty hiring and retention across a slew of interdisciplinary areas and fields – already are generating momentum and success stories.</p>
<p dir="ltr">James Matheson DMA‘01, said that during his time at Cornell, “I learned how to think like a composer.”</p>
An Ithaca-Cornell Tech partnership explores machine learning possibilities using visual recognition, crossing the humanities with technology.
When the Boston Early Music Festival needed advice on how to revive a French baroque opera, they turned to Cornell musicologist Rebecca Harris-Warrick, author of “Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera: A History.”
Roberto Sierra,the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Music Composition, talks about his life, composing, teaching, and the creative process.
<p>The award-winning poetry of Ishion Hutchinson, set to music by graduate student composers, will be featured in the Sat., March 18 concert in Barnes Hall, “Songs of the Land: Poems of Ishion Hutchinson.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Cornell University Wind Symphony (CU Winds) will pay tribute to the late Steven Stucky and Karel Husa in a series of concerts featuring memorial commissions honoring the former Cornell professors.</p>
