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Photo credits clockwise from top left: Chris Kitchen, Chris Kitchen, Lindsey Forg, P. Cody Fiduccia, Ji Young Kim, Patrick Shanahan
Letter from the Chair:
Dear Friends of Music,
Many things have happened since the last time I had a chance to write to you at the outset of my term as Chair of the Department of Music. We lived through a second year of incredible challenges brought to us by COVID-19 and its variants. Nevertheless, the return to in-person teaching and music-making last Fall — thanks to the safety restrictions in place and the moving resilience and solidarity of our staff, students, and faculty — was a very welcome change to the many months of isolation that had prevented us from enjoying the intellectual conversations, artistic partnerships, and even trivial chit-chat that many of us had taken for granted before the pandemic...
[Read more of the Letter from Department Chair Alejandro L. Madrid]
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This academic year featured numerous highlights from programs and individuals. Please follow the links below to read more!
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Mark your calendars for Cornell Giving Day, March 16th! Your donation of any size on March 16 will go towards direct costs of music making, including scholarships for lessons. Thank you for your generosity and for making a difference for our students!
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The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards had another busy, productive, and exciting year in 2021.
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The Resounds Festival kicks off a yearlong project focused on innovation in acoustic instruments and includes installations at the Johnson Museum and concerts each day beginning at 4 p.m. that take listeners on a pilgrimage to various locations around the Arts Quad.
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Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
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“The Whale Listening Project,” which runs Sept. 23-26, is a four-day immersion in the beauty of whale song and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59, a retired research associate with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program.
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Your support makes a difference!
Throughout the pandemic, students and faculty have demonstrated innovation, creativity, and adaptation to continue making music an important part of their Cornell experience. Your donation on March 16 will go towards direct costs of music making, including scholarships for lessons. Thank you for your support!
You can also make a gift online any time or send a check payable to “Cornell University” (Memo: Music Department) to:
Cornell University
Box 37334
Boone, IA 50037-0334
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