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Social distancing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 canceled the last two shows of the spring 2020 Cornell Concert Series, challenging organizers to connect performers with fans in new ways.
The more than 200 members of Cornell’s choral groups may not be able to sing together each week, but they are still spending time listening and sharing their love of music virtually, with a host of guest visitors this semester.
Two 21st-century works for recorder and orchestra by Cornell faculty composers are included in a recent feature by New York City classical radio station WQXR.
The department is sharing a variety of faculty and student projects on a new Quarantunes page.
Raven Schwam-Curtis ’20 had seen the coronavirus coming: She visited China and South Korea on a research trip over winter break, when the first cases were being reported there. But she was still confronted with financial and emotional disruption when the pandemic forced Cornell to abruptly suspend classes in mid-March and switch to remote learning April 6, following spring break.
Fitz Gibbon and McCullough have been working together since 2006 and gave their first duo recital in 2009.
Spring 2020 was a semester like no other. Over the course of a few weeks, thousands of classes – lectures and seminars, laboratory and performance courses, capstone projects and veterinary clinics – transitioned entirely online. Instructors navigated technical and logistical difficulties, as well as the shifting realities of a global pandemic. But amid the challenges, students and faculty found opportunities for innovation, connection and intellectual growth.
Making art addresses “the emotions of the times,” said Helena Maria Viramontes, director of the Creative Writing Program. “We should ‘speak, so that we can heal.’”
Students in an innovative class this spring made their homes not only classrooms, but also studio and laboratory spaces as they imagined and created unique musical instruments out of materials close at hand.
Even though we can't be together in person, we are looking forward to "seeing" you at our virtual Reunion 2020, Friday and Saturday, June 5-6!
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The Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus perform on a new CD of works composed by Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities.
On Wednesday, October 20th and Thursday, October 21st, current Steven Stucky Memorial Residency Ensemble the Israeli Chamber Project will finally be performing new works live by Cornell’s very own D.M.A composition students, including Joshua Biggs and John Eagle, as well as chamber music repertoire by Debussy, Milhaud, and Messiaen.Both Biggs and...
Cornell welcomes Pulitzer and Grammy-winning artist Wynton Marsalis as A.D. White Professor-at-Large. The Cornell Wind Symphony, conducted by Barbara & Richard T. Silver '50, MD '53 Assistant Professor of Music James Spinazzola, along with Marsalis and his rhythm section, perform a wide-ranging program including ragtime, blues, and jazz. The...
Stephen Spinelli and Tamara Acosta have been nominated for a President's Award for Employee Excellence for their project, ONEcomposer, which celebrates musicians whose contributions have been historically erased. Spinelli, a senior lecturer and Cornell's assistant director of choral programs, and Acosta, a visiting lecturer in voice, are up for...
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The Oberlin Concertos, a new album featuring pianist Xak Bjerken has just been released. Daydreams that became reality, the album is a result of what Bjerken calls, “lucky and close friendships with supremely talented composers.”For Bjerken, the project itself was inspired by “the need for all us pianists to have new, smaller piano concertos,...
Cornell ReSounds aims to establish Cornell as a center for the design and creation of new musical instruments and a hub for Cornell’s creative artists – a dialogue between the future of instrument-building and collaborative artistic creation. Looking at tradition and past inventions as a way forward, Cornell’s technologists, engineers, and...
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...
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...
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...
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!...