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The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will launch its 2021-22 season on Oct. 14 with the world premiere of “Symphony No. 6,” composed by Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Elizaveta Zabelina '24 is spending the summer helping to photograph and regulate the 17 historical pianos, harpsichords and clavichords in the collection of the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
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The Society for the Humanities added to its grant offerings in 2021, awarding Humanities Impact Grants to humanities projects that “engage in broader public conversations with social impact in mind.”
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Congratulations, to Dr. Ji Young Kim for receiving the Ph.D. in musicology with an outstanding dissertation, Innere Stimmen and Hidden Duets in the Piano Music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Dr. Kim’s study is a signal contribution to our understanding of the complex musical and personal relations within the Schumann-Brahms circle during...
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Graduate student Lee Kimura Tyson has won the 2021 Sanjek Student Paper Prize from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch (IASPM-US); the title of their essay is “Trans Vocal Authenticity and SOPHIE’s Hyperreal Voices.” The award is given each year to the student who has written and delivered the most outstanding...
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Research supported by the 14 grants ranges from the physics of quantum computing to the design of new musical instruments.
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Rebecca Harris-Warrick, known affectionately as Becky by her colleagues, will retire June 30 after a thirty-four-year career in the Department of Music. A noted scholar of dance and dramaturgy in French baroque opera, Becky’s dual passions of scholarship and teaching will be sorely missed in Lincoln Hall. A California native, Becky and her...
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The National Endowment for the Arts has approved a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to the Department of Music to support a musical response to Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a database housing digitized, searchable fugitive slave advertisements.
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The College of Arts & Sciences' Extraordinary Journeys series features a wide range of graduating seniors' reflections on their pathways at Cornell, and this year, many of the students noted the importance of their musical experiences here. Read more about these students and their varied interests and connections to the music department!...
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“During this challenging year, our faculty have demonstrated exemplary caring and commitment to our students."
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