Cornell composer’s work featured in upcoming Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series event
A new work by Cornell alum Zachary Wadsworth DMA ’12, will premiere this weekend in three concerts, including one at Cornell’s Bailey Hall.
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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: Cornell Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra April 26, 2025
The program includes Bach’s uplifting Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Dvořák’s triumphant Te Deum—featuring soloists Rachel Schutz, soprano, and Jean Bernard Cerin, baritone—Brahms’ lyrical Schicksalslied. Performed by the Cornell Glee Club and Chorus, and the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, led by Joe Lerangis and Gabriela Gomez Estevez.
Music events
Oct
17
Friday
05:00 PM
Oct
18
Saturday
07:30 PM
Cornell Jazz Ensemble Concert (CU Music)
Bailey Hall
Oct
22
Wednesday
12:30 PM
Oct
23
Thursday
04:30 PM
Oct
24
Friday
07:30 PM
Shostakovich's Piano Cycles (CU Music)
Barnes Hall
Oct
26
Sunday
04:00 PM
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra to perform with violinist James Ehnes Oct. 26
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with violin soloist James Ehnes will perform a program entitled “Postcards from Paris” in the next Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series (DMCCS) production of the 2025-26 season.
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‘The Keyboards Strike Back’: concert sequel set for Oct. 9
Cornell faculty and graduate students unleash a genre-bending program across seventeen keyboard instruments, from the delicate whisper of the clavichord to the analog punch of the Roland Juno-60.
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Music Oct. 2-5: Homecoming concerts and historical keyboards
Cornell orchestras, vocal ensembles and the Center for Historical Keyboards plan performances.
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Ethnomusicologist Martin Hatch, professor of music emeritus, dies at 83
Martin F. Hatch Jr., Ph.D. ’80, professor of music emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Aug. 23 in Ithaca, New York. He was 83.
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Le Vent du Nord plays Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series Sept. 20
A leading force in Quebec’s progressive francophone folk movement, Le Vent du Nord will perform in the first Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series (DMCCS) on Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
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