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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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Cornell Symphony Orchestra (CSO), led by conductor Chris Younghoon Kim, features Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March and Symphony No. 6.
Enjoy symphony concerts this weekend among other campus activities.
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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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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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Some of Nintendo's music has attained classic status, says music professor Roger Moseley.
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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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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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Music producing legend Quincy Jones understood the political aspect of art, says Cornell music scholar.
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At Cornell, the GRAMMY-nominated quartet will perform works by Caroline Shaw, Haydn, Shostakovich, and a selection of their original compositions and traditional folk tunes.
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