Posted on February 16, 2021
Embracing being Black has been a lifelong journey for Michael Ellis Ingram, who moved to Germany in 2010 to pursue a career in music. Read about his personal journey and revelations.
Posted on December 16, 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We’re starting 2020 by taking a quick look back at the highlights of 2019. In case you missed it, here are the 19 most-read articles of the year.
Posted on September 13, 2019
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
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