Sierra's "Salseando" garners rave review

On December 17, the Murcia Orchestra conducted by Manuel Hernández-Silva with Pacho Flores, trumpet, gave the Spanish premiere of “Salseando” Roberto Sierra's concerto for trumpet and orchestra. The performance received a rave review from the prestigious Spanish publication Scherzo, with critic Jose Antonio Canton remarking that "the enthusiastic...

ONEcomposer cited in Philadelphia Inquirer

Stephen Spinelli and Tamara Acosta, founders of the ONEcomposer initiative, were quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article. ONEcomposer will collaborate with the Philadelphia Orchestra next semester for a presentation of Florence Price's piano concerto, plus there are two remaining events to view this December: an interview with soprano Karen...

‘Mini’ dance showcase meets challenges with virtual performance

The Mini Locally Grown Dance (MLGD) will showcase student and faculty dance performances from the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), December 3–5 at 7:30 p.m. online. The events are free and open to the public but ticket reservations are required.

Yearlong series highlights sidelined composer

What began more than a year ago as an effort to celebrate a somewhat unknown female Black composer has grown into a collaboration between Cornell’s choral faculty, a major orchestra and musicians and faculty from across the country, who are participating in a host of initiatives to honor the works of Florence Price.

Peraino article awarded by the American Musicological Society

Professor Judith Peraino has been awarded a double accolade at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society: her article “I’ll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes” received both the H. Colin Slim Award (“for a musicological article of exceptional merit published in any language and in any...

Peraino's essay published by Oxford University Press Blog

The Oxford University Press Blog has published Professor Judith Peraino's essay “The Politics of Punk in the Era of Trump.” "Punk has been claimed by the left and the right on the political spectrum to describe different visions of populism."The essay is available to read online.

Dawn Upshaw selected as A.D. White Professor-at-Large

The Music Department is pleased to announce that Dawn Upshaw has been chosen as a 2020-2026 A. D. White Professor-at-Large. Not just the first vocalist awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, a five-time GRAMMY award winner, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Founding Artistic Director of Bard College-Conservatory’s Graduate...

Congratulations, Dr. Dietmar Friesenegger

Congratulations to Dr. Dietmar Friesenegger for receiving the Ph.D. in musicology with an outstanding dissertation, Voices among Cultures in the Eastern European Borderlands: Music in Czernowitz (1862–1914). Dr. Friesenegger’s study investigates one the most diverse cities in the contested lands of Eastern Europe, exploring the role of music in...

Silver linings: Innovation, kits, tech animate a hybrid semester

Cornell community honors Toni Morrison with “The Bluest Eye” reading

A total of 122 readers, plus a number of Cornell musicians, paid tribute to Toni Morrison M.A. ’55 Oct. 8 during a marathon reading of “The Bluest Eye.”