Exhibit highlights art/tech intersections in student work
The event invited undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines to display their projects at the historic A.D. White House.
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Performance is a fundamental part of Cornell’s cultural life. The Department of Music encourages music-making through a wide array of chamber and large ensembles, as well as its offerings in private lessons and directed coaching by members of the music faculty. Master classes, degree and non-degree recitals, contemporary music concerts, and an annual concerto competition supplement the music department’s concert offerings.
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Featured Ensemble Performance: Symphony Orchestra, 4/29/18
Cornell Symphony Orchestra (CSO), led by conductor Chris Younghoon Kim, features Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March and Symphony No. 6.
Music events
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02
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04:00 PM
Feb
21
Friday
07:30 PM
Cornell Concert Series presents: Jonathan Biss
Bailey Hall
Mar
07
Friday
07:30 PM
Mar
21
Friday
07:30 PM
Cornell Concert Series presents: Sona Jobarteh
Bailey Hall
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09
Wednesday
04:30 PM
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24
Thursday
07:30 PM
Music news
Things to do: Apple Bake-Off, orchestra and wind, Mohawk River exhibit 
Enjoy symphony concerts this weekend among other campus activities.
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Morton Wan awarded 2024 Thomas Hampson Fund grant by the AMS
The American Musicological Society has awarded its 2024 Thomas Hampson Fund grant to Morton Wan in support of his project, “Chao Yuen Ren’s Art of Songs.”
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Things to do: Much music, Supreme Court panel, advice for aspiring filmmakers
Pick from several concerts, attend the Town-Gown Awards, consider the Supreme Court and get advice for a career in film at events around campus.
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Nintendo music app ‘rivals major record labels,’ not just for gamers
Some of Nintendo's music has attained classic status, says music professor Roger Moseley.
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Rachel Horner Awarded Lise Waxer Prize from SEM
The Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology has awarded the Lise Waxer Prize to Rachel Horner, a PhD candidate in Music and Sound Studies. The honor recognizes the most distinguished student paper on popular music presented at the Society’s 2023 Annual Meeting.
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American Studies Association honors Nic Vigilante
Graduate student Nic Vigilante received an honorable mention for their paper Salty, Sweet, and Spicy: Ingestion and Immersion in Queer Asian American Nightlife for the 2024 Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize from the American Studies Association.
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Jones understood all art, especially Black art, is ‘political’
Music producing legend Quincy Jones understood the political aspect of art, says Cornell music scholar.
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