Posts Tagged "music"

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Posted on December 16, 2020

How the Pandemic Changed the Tune for Gordon’s Musicians

COVID-19 protocols posed a challenge to the Department of Music's daily rhythms, but their creative adaptations meant they reached more audiences than ever.

Posted on October 31, 2020

An Inside Look at Prison Life in America

Six years ago today, Lee became a free man after 13 years in a medium-security prison in Norfolk, MA, and the world was not the same as he’d left it.

Posted on March 4, 2020

How a 20th-Century African American Composer is Shaping Classical Music Today

Florence Price was told she had no place in classical music as an African American woman. But against the many odds present in her day and field, the musical pioneer created a space for herself.

Posted on February 27, 2020

In Tune With Others: How Singing Together Can Help Us Navigate Hard Conversations

Eighty-one years ago, you could walk into a tiny basement club in Greenwich Village (a.k.a. “The Wrong Place for the Right People”) and hear 23-year-old Billie Holiday end her set with a song called “Strange Fruit.”

Posted on January 22, 2020

Music, Science and Faith Inform Award-winning Research

Alumnus Dr. Joshua Neumann's innovative musical exploration of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau earned him the American Musicological Society Thomas Hampson Award for research in classic song.

Posted on January 20, 2020

How Does Race Affect Daily Life in America? An Interview with Bil Mooney-McCoy, Part II

In Part II of The Bell’s two-part interview with Director of Worship Bil Mooney-McCoy, we pick up the conversation by hearing from Mooney-McCoy about what it’s like to be black in America in 2020.

Posted on January 20, 2020

How Much of Dr. King’s Dream Came True? An Interview with Bil Mooney-McCoy, Part I

To honor Dr. King, The Bell interviewed Director of Worship Bil Mooney-McCoy who, in addition to his work as an accomplished musician, is a teacher of racial reconciliation and the father of a professional Christian rapper.

Posted on January 2, 2020

Healing Post-Soviet Ukraine through Music

When Yo-Yo Ma—perhaps the world’s most famous living classical musician—played his cello at the border entry point in Laredo, Texas, last April, it was a perfect example of how the culture of classical music is changing.

Posted on August 26, 2019

Bearing Music from Boston to Brazil

After traveling with the Boston Symphony Youth Orchestra this summer, violinist Jinyung Suh ’22 says, “You just realize that the world is so much bigger than you make it out to be.”

Posted on August 21, 2019

Collaborative Conductor Joins Music Faculty

Posted on April 29, 2019

Jason Russell ’04: Music and its Many Remedies

To Jason Russell ’04, music is more than just something to listen to on the commute to work; it has the power to help people’s lives change for the better.