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Composing Music

Giving a Voice to University Musicians

This isn’t the University Cafe or the TAC. If you’re looking for hipsters and ambience, you won’t find it here. In the Staller Recital Hall, you’re more likely to see empty seats, elderly couples and noses buried in pro...
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Piano Keys

The Piano Project: A Musical Olympics

Wednesday, March 28 marked the 11th annual Piano Project in which students and faculty of the piano studio tackle this three-concert marathon each year. Flashing fingers, pounds of sheet music, hours of intense focus—the even...
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Emerson String Quartet

So I think it’s safe to remark on the love affair the classical music world has with Beethoven. My music history textbook, for instance, torridly describes Beethoven and his works in a 20-page love letter to man’s greatness...
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Ear Fest

Earfest

As a classical musician, I’ve learned to respect the sanctity of ceremony in music performance. One grows accustomed to the frenetic chaos of performers warming up, the whispered breaths of tuning notes, the pomp and circumst...
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Classical Music Giants in Our Backyard

As one of the most distinguished string ensembles of our time, the Emerson String Quartet has found success in its longevity. Over the course of their 33 years together, the musicians of Emerson have become giants in the world ...
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Shared Support in Progress

In the spring semester of 2011, President Stanley announced to Think Magazine a new project in the works: the then separate fine arts departments would be brought together to function as a larger unit. Such a proposal came in t...
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