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This Cornell Research story focuses on Bach scholar and accomplished organist/pianist, David Yearsley, who is exploring not only Bach’s music but also the music of Bach’s wife and their world.
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The University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center recently conducted an interview with Professor Judith Peraino. In the interview Peraino spoke about her life and career, particularly her work with music and sexuality. Listen to the interview here.This fall, Professor Peraino will teach her class, Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal...
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Are you thinking about a career in music? The music department at Cornell offers unique opportunities for the interaction of scholarship, performance, and composition through collaborations with fellow students and faculty members alike. Creativity and breadth are encouraged, and graduates from the department point to these traits as influential...
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The Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, with support from Cornell University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, presents a concert festival and conference, “The Organ in the Global Baroque,” September 6-8, 2018 at Cornell.Honoring the late organist and pedagogue Jacques van Oortmerssen, the conference will feature numerous...
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The Cornell University Department of Music is pleased to announce the successful funding of the endowment for the Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music. Through the generosity of more than 50 donors, the original goal was far surpassed, bringing the total endowment to more than $335,000 with another $45,000 pledged. Leadership gifts to...
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Associate Professor Andrew Hicks has been appointed co-editor of a leading journal, the Journal of Musicology, published by University of California Press, effective July 1, 2018. As co-editor, Hicks will work to strengthen the Journal's international role as a leading disciplinary forum that both reflects the breadth of music studies today and...
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The 2017-2018 academic year featured numerous highlights from programs and individuals. Click here to read our newsletter!
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The Department of Music welcomes two Postdoctoral Associates, each beginning a two-year appointment starting July 1, 2018.Leila Tayeb, who is receiving her doctorate at Northwestern University this spring, will serve as the Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Associate in Music and Islam in the Contemporary World. Her dissertation, Sonic Upheavals:...
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Dear Friends of Music,In my office in Lincoln Hall, in the heart of Cornell’s central campus, I hear a student practicing a Beethoven sonata movement; two hours ago it was a piece by my colleague Roberto Sierra. Visitors to my office might spy framed photographs of Lili Krause and Artur Rubinstein, a Senegambian kora harp, an album by Hank...
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Cornell University held its third annual Giving Day on March 20, with the Department of Music once again participating. For the second year, we directed all undesignated gifts to the Friends of Music Fund to support scholarships for music lessons. The Friends of Music is an initiative begun in 1977 under the leadership of Otto Doering ‘62 that...
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