Acclaimed Composer and Latin Grammy Winner Roberto Sierra Retires
Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, will retire at the end of the fall 2021 semester after twenty-nine and a half years at Cornell University. Hailing from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, Roberto joined the faculty in 1992 as a pioneering composer whose music frequently synthesized Caribbean and European musical...
Sustaining Historical Pianos Gala-Symposium
The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards presents an end-of-year gala celebration: SUSTAINING PIANOS – A Gala-Symposium in honor of Ken Walkup’s Retirement. On Friday, December 10 at 8:00 pm, Xak Bjerken, Miri Yampolsky, Roger Moseley, Malcolm Bilson, and Mike Lee will share the Barnes Hall stage alongside guest artist Martha Guth and students...
Appert receives 2021 Marcia Herndon Prize
Professor Catherine Appert has received the 2021 Marcia Herndon Prize from the Gender and Sexualities Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology for her article (co-written with Sidra Lawrence) "Ethnomusicology beyond #MeToo: Listening for the Violences of the Field." The article was published in Ethnomusicology, the flagship journal in the field...
Holst-Warhaft publishes book on music of the Aegean Islands
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Graduate Field at Cornell's Department of Music, has recently published her book Nisiotika: Music, Dances, and Bittersweet Songs of the Aegean Islands. The book focuses on the Greek tradition of nisiotika, the music and songs that are played and sung at festivals...
Spinelli performs on Grammy-nominated recording
Rising w/ The Crossing, the most recent album by The Crossing, a chamber choir that counts Senior Lecturer Stephen Spinelli as one of its members, just received a Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance. The album is a compilation of live performances from years past that was released during the COVID-19 quarantine. Conductor Donald Nally...
Alumni gift to A&S supports doctoral students in the humanities
A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
Nexus Scholars Program applications now open
The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
Popular Music Course Makes its Winter Session Debut
Cornell’s Winter Session has always been a great way for students to earn credits, but many may not realize that some popular courses, often closed out during the spring and fall semesters, are also available during the winter.
Media Studies Initiative launches new graduate minor
Beginning in spring 2022, a graduate minor in media studies will be available to students in fields across the Graduate School at Cornell University.
New piano joins historic instrument collection
A new Silbermann piano has joined the instrument collection at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
Cornell ReSounds presented play | pen symposium Feb. 4-5
Cornell ReSounds welcomed an esteemed slate of musicians, composers, and instrument builders for a two-day virtual symposium.
LA Phil premieres Ogonek's "Cloudline"
On Saturday, January 29, the LA Philharmonic will perform the US premiere of Elizabeth Ogonek's Cloudline, under the baton of conductor Elim Chan. Ogonek provided the following insights on the piece: In Song of the Universal, Walt Whitman wrote, “Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, / An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, / High...
Cornell ReSounds play | pen symposium February 4-5
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. As part of ReSounds, Elizabeth Ogonek and Ryan McCullough welcome an esteemed slate of musicians,...
Madrid publishes book on Tania León
Alejandro L. Madrid, Professor and Chair at Cornell's Department of Music, has recently published his book Tania León's Stride. A Polyrhythmic Life as part of the University of Illinois Press' Music in American Life series. In this book, Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography to offer the first in-depth biography of composer...
Lewandowski presents Siren at MASS MoCA
Senior Lecturer Annie Lewandowski will present her installation Siren: Composers of the Sea at Mass MoCA on January 22, 2022 with collaborators Kyle McDonald and Amy Rubin. Siren immerses listeners in Lewandowski’s detailed recordings of humpback whale song, made with pioneering bioacoustician Katy Payne and the Hawaii Marine Mammal Consortium....