Music professor releases chamber music disc
The project, “Steven Stucky: Chamber Music,” honors Stucky, who passed away in 2016.
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Moseley wins musicological book award
Roger Moseley, associate professor of music, has been presented with the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society (AMS) for his 2016 book “Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo.”
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Two Roberto Sierra Pieces Set to Premiere
Two new works by Professor Roberto Sierra will receive their premieres in November. On November 17, the Sigma Project will perform Graffiti for saxophone quartet at the 27th Festival of Contemporary Music in Chile. The work was commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for the Sigma Project. More information can be found here. On...
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Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz
Cambridge University Press recently published Francesca Brittan's (PhD Musicology '07) latest book "Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz." From the publisher:The centrality of fantasy to French literary culture has long been accepted by critics, but the sonorous dimensions of the mode and its wider implications for musical production have...
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Lalonde, Pierce published in 19th-Century Music
Cornellians Amanda Lalonde (PhD Musicology '14) and current graduate student Mackenzie Pierce both have articles appearing in the current edition of the journal 19th-Century Music. In "Flowers over the Abyss: A Musical Uncanny in Nineteenth-Century Criticism," Lalonde examines the emergence and purpose of the uncanny in instrumental music and...
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Piekut Assembles Panel for Haus der Kunst
Associate Professor Benjamin Piekut has convened a panel on music and sound as part of the Specters of Communism Festival at the Haus der Kunst (Munich) in late November. Titled “Form, Mastery, and Aural Disintegration,” the panel features contributions from Piekut, Hon Lun Yang (Hong Kong Baptist University), Tamara Levitz (UCLA), Fumi Okiji (...
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College Scholar studies connection between sound and nature
Joshua Sadinsky '19 combines the passion and tenacity of a concert pianist with a heady love for nature.
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Teach Better podcast spotlights education innovation
The economics department is transforming its undergraduate curriculum with help from an Active Learning Initiative grant.
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Roberto Sierra to be featured on Chicago's WFMT
The music of Professor Roberto Sierra will be featured on Chicago's WFMT radio program Fiesta, on Saturday, November 4 from 7–8pm. Fiesta is a weekly classical music program devoted to Latin American and Iberian music from the 16th to 21st century, and brings artistically and historically significant compositions and artists to its listeners. ...
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Master Classes Present Unique Learning Opportunity
The Music Department is hosting a master class with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Oboist Elizabeth Koch Tiscione at 7:00pm on October 23 in Barnes Hall.Master classes are a unique opportunity for musicians and music appreciators to experience high level musicianship from incredibly respected performers. Such classes are usually...
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