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Ph.D. candidate Dietmar Friesenegger reports on recent performances drawing on his archival research in the Ukraine:During my archival research in Chernivtsi (Ukraine) in the Fall of 2016 I unearthed six manuscript scores by the composer, musicologist, and lifelong friend of Brahms, Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857–1929), including cantatas, a mass,...
The Cornell University Department of Music will be hosting an Open House on Thursday, October 19 from 12:30pm to 2:00pm in Lincoln Hall B20. Faculty and current students will be there to answer questions for anyone considering becoming involved in the music department!“The Department of Music offers a wonderful variety of perspectives on sound...
The Cornell Wind Symphony performed this past Sunday in Bailey Hall at 3pm; the concert centered around Charles Ives’ “Variations on America.” I sat down with conductor James Spinazzola to talk about the repertoire for this performance.“The Wind Symphony is performing at Yale in March as part of the Eastern Division Conference of the College Band...
Seven Ph.D. students in Musicology will present their research at the upcoming annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) and the American Musicological Society (AMS). Taking place in Denver at the end of October, the SEM meeting will include include papers by three Cornell graduate students. In “Speaking Through Noise: Punks in the...
Roberto Sierra, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, was recently highlighted by the Yamaha Corporation of America for his work, Concierto Virtual. Premiered in January 2017 at the Focus! festival at Lincoln Center, the concerto features a synthesized piano solo, performed on Yamaha's Disklavier ENSPIRE, a reproducing piano.Said...
Twenty students from across the United States and Canada gathered in the Reading Room of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University for four and a half days this past August. The program aimed to give students the tools they need to analyze and perform medieval music using various notational systems. Students covered a wide...