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“The Oberlin Concertos,” released Sept. 17, features a composition by Elizabeth Ogonek, which combines voice, piano and percussion.
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An organ festival on campus will feature the works of the Dutch composer and keyboardist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
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Stephen Spinelli and Tamara Acosta have been nominated for a President's Award for Employee Excellence for their project, ONEcomposer, which celebrates musicians whose contributions have been historically erased. Spinelli, a senior lecturer and Cornell's assistant director of choral programs, and Acosta, a visiting lecturer in voice, are up for...
/news/spinelli-acosta-nominated-presidents-award-employee-excellencePlease note the following public health requirements:All attendees who are current Cornell students or employees must show their Cornell ID for admission to the event. Cornell employees attending indoor events must complete the Daily Check prior to attendance.All attendees who are not current Cornell employees or students (such as alumni,...
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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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The Oberlin Concertos, a new album featuring pianist Xak Bjerken has just been released. Daydreams that became reality, the album is a result of what Bjerken calls, “lucky and close friendships with supremely talented composers.”For Bjerken, the project itself was inspired by “the need for all us pianists to have new, smaller piano concertos,...
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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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Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
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Cornell ReSounds aims to establish Cornell as a center for the design and creation of new musical instruments and a hub for Cornell’s creative artists – a dialogue between the future of instrument-building and collaborative artistic creation. Looking at tradition and past inventions as a way forward, Cornell’s technologists, engineers, and...
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