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Patrick Braga: 'I want to continue writing innovative modern opera and make meaningful changes to urban policy. '

<h3>Patrick Braga</h3><h3>Economics, Music, Urban and Regional Studies</h3><h3>Sarasota, FL</h3><p><strong>What was your most profound turning point while at Cornell?</strong></p><p>I decided to declare a dual-degree with music between my sophomore and junior years, and I am so glad I did. The music major has opened so many doors for creative development and created an incredible number of opportunities.</p>

Lawrence Shuster

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Lauren Blacker: 'I found a way to incorporate music into my education.'

<h3>Lauren Blacker</h3><h3>Biology and Society</h3><h3>Chicago, IL</h3><p><style type="text/css"><![CDATA[/* ><![CDATA[/* >/*--><!]]]]><![CDATA[>*//*--><!]]>*/</style><strong>What is your main extracurricular activity? Why is it important to you?</strong></p>

Sarah McDonald: 'The diversity and size of Cornell has expanded my worldview.'

<h3>Sarah McDonald</h3><h3>Music & English</h3><h3>Essex, CT</h3><p><style type="text/css"><![CDATA[/* ><![CDATA[/* >/*--><!]]]]><![CDATA[>*//*--><!]]>*/</style><strong>What is your main extracurricular activity? W</strong><strong>hy is it important to you?</strong></p>

Music's Mayfest returns May 20–24

<p>Cornell University’s Department of Music, under the artistic direction of pianists Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, will present its ninth springtime festival of world-class chamber music in Ithaca May 20–24. <a href="http://mayfest-cornell.org.">Mayfest </a>will offer six intimate concerts in four inspiring locations: Cornell’s Barnes Hall, Klarman Hall, Lab of Ornithology, and the Carriage House Café.</p>

Cornell Council for the Arts supports 40 new projects

<p>The <a href="http://cca.cornell.edu/">Cornell Council for the Arts</a> (CCA) has awarded grants supporting 40 projects, many involving students and faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences, to be presented or performed during the 2016-17 academic year.</p>

Student Awards for 2016

<p>Students from throughout the college were honored recently for their accomplishments.</p>

Tonia Ko wins BMI Student Composer Award

<p dir="ltr">Doctoral student Tonia Ko was one of nine classical composers to win a Student Composer Award May 16 from Broadcast Music, Inc. The awards are given to composers age 15-27 who are recognized for their superior musical compositional abilities. The students are awarded scholarship grants, which help them with their musical education.</p>

Kristin Zaryski

Kristin Zaryski is a visiting lecture of music at Cornell University, serving as the conductor of the Cornell University Chorale for the 2020 Spring Semester.

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CCA 2016 Biennial to focus on empathy

<p>The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) 2016 Biennial, “Abject/Object Empathies,” will feature 12 new projects by invited artists, Cornell faculty members and students. Most of the works will be presented on campus between Sept. 15 and Dec. 22, all on the theme of the cultural production of empathy.</p>

New book takes sound studies into the cosmos

<p>“We can hear the universe” declared researchers at LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) announcing the first detection of a gravitational wave last year.</p><p>By capturing a sonic translation of two black holes colliding more than a billion years ago, scientists had finally achieved what ancient scholars had long dreamed of: translating the “music of the spheres” into sound humans can hear.</p>

CU Winds completes tour of Haiti, Dominican Republic

<p>Fifty student musicians traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on a tour that was “genuinely transformative."</p>

$2.7 million grant expands Arts & Sciences Active Learning Initiative

<p>Six new projects will be launched in music, classics, economics, mathematics, physics and sociology.</p>

Lucy Fitz Gibbon

Noted for her “dazzling, virtuoso singing” (Boston Globe), Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a dynamic musician whose repertoire spans the Renaissance to the present. She believes that creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past makes room for the multiplicity and diversity of voices integral to classical music’s future. As such, Lucy has given U.S. premieres of rediscovered works by Baroque composers Francesco Sacrati, Barbara Strozzi, and Agostino Agazzari, as well by 20th century composers including Tadeusz Kassern, Roman Palester, and Jean Barraqué. She has also worked closely with numerous others, premiering works by John Harbison, Kate Soper, Sheila Silver, David Hertzberg, Reena Esmail, Roberto Sierra, Anna Lindemann, and Pauline Oliveros. In helping to realize the complexities of music beyond written notes, the experience of working with these composers translates to all music: the commitment to faithfully communicate not only the score, but also the underlying intentions of its creator.

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Music students from jazz band on the quad

Students re-create music, vibe from jazz's earliest days

<p>Five student musicians, calling themselves The Original Cornell Syncopators, are celebrating the centennial of the first jazz record's release by recreating the historic recording session. </p>

Humanities proposal springs from 'radical collaboration' effort

<p>Cornell’s “radical collaboration” initiatives – <a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/10/provost-launches-initiatives-supporting-radical-collaboration">launched last fall</a> as a series of provost’s task forces targeting faculty hiring and retention across a slew of interdisciplinary areas and fields – already are generating momentum and success stories.</p>