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Brahms’s Op. 8 Piano Trio (original version, 1854)
with Rebecca Anderson, John Haines-Eitzen, and Roger Moseley on an 1857 J. B. Streicher piano (gift of Alan Bostrom)
DMA candidate Richard Valitutto documents his ongoing work into the music, performance practice, and personality of Julius Eastman.
Congratulations to David Yearsley, who has been appointed Herbert Gussman Professor of Music (a title previously held by Neal Zaslaw) by the University’s Board of Trustees. His new title is effective April 1, 2021. As Cornell Dean of Arts & Sciences Ray Jayawardhana expressed, this is not only an individual
By Lucy Fitz Gibbon. The necessary Covid restrictions, and the sacrifices we must all make to keep each other safe, have placed onerous burdens on vocal arts in particular. To obviate the possibility of disease transmission, we are only working together virtually—and that makes collaboration, itself the very heart of
By Stephen Spinelli. Much of my 2018-19 academic year was spent preparing for a residency at the Museum of African American History on Nantucket Island with the Cornell Chamber Singers. Nantucket’s Quaker roots brought about an early abolitionist culture, drawing Frederick Douglass to the island in 1841 for his first
The newest addition to our instrument collection is an 1857 J. B. Streicher Opus 5294—with Viennese action—generously gifted by Alan Bostrom, a retired statistician and an accomplished amateur musician. The piano was restored by the musicologist and restorer Edward Swenson (PhD Cornell ’74), in nearby Trumansburg between 1998-99, who found
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