Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Brava!
Posted in On Campus on April 9, 2013
Soprano Jessye Norman’s Vail performance wraps the season and Lorraine Wales’ extraordinary 34-year directorship on the perfect note.
Modern maestros
Posted in On Campus on March 7, 2013
Every two years, the sounds of innovative musicians fill classrooms and performance spaces as the Tutti New Music Festival takes up residence on campus.
The British are coming
Posted in On Campus on January 31, 2013
The Vail Series presents the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart.
Hot jazz on a cool night
Posted in On Campus on October 25, 2012
Chucho Valdés brings the heat of Cuban nights and Latin jazz to Swasey.
Musical mojo
Posted in On Campus on September 14, 2012
It was one of those ridiculously perfect Denison moments: a cellist, blue skies, and a thousand chocolate chip cookies.
Knight class
Posted in On Campus on April 11, 2012
Before they brought down the house at Swasey, members of The Knights orchestra shared some insights with student musicians.
Modern musician
Posted in Academics & Research on March 1, 2012
HyeKyung Lee, a recently tenured faculty member, is fascinated by new works, and that includes discovering others’ music or creating her own original pieces.
Big band boast
Posted in Beyond Campus on February 17, 2012
Members of the Jazz Ensemble are gearing up to perform at the Ohio Music Education Association’s annual conference.
Perennial bluegrass
Posted in On Campus on February 13, 2012
The eighth annual Denison Bluegrass Festival’s “high lonesome sound” warmed a February weekend.
Great folks and great folk music
Posted in On Campus on January 12, 2012
Every Wednesday, local musicians gather in a circle at Slayter and fill the air with bluegrass.
Baby, they were down
Posted in On Campus on December 1, 2011
Re-live the annual D-Day concert. In 145 seconds.
Guitar heroes
Posted in On Campus on November 10, 2011
Six-string virtuosos Romero Lubambo and Julian Lage rocked out Burke Recital Hall as part of the 15th Annual Jazz Guitar Festival.
This toy is no toy—it’s made to play
Posted in Academics & Research on November 1, 2011
Assistant professor of music and pianist HyeKyung Lee’s powerful presence on a very small piano.
Sharing the stage with the masters
Posted in On Campus on October 28, 2011
Munich Symphony Orchestra, Gloriae Dei Cantores Choir and Denison Chamber Singers create musical magic.
Déjà Yuja
Posted in On Campus on October 5, 2011
Renowned pianist Yuja Wang returns to Denison for the sixth time this Friday night, and we can’t wait.
Enter senior soprano, stage left
Posted in Beyond Campus on August 12, 2011
DEN Shots: Molly Coyne ’12 lighting up the stage this summer at Weathervane Playhouse in Newark.
Denison in the Blogosphere (7/25/11)
Posted in Beyond Campus on July 25, 2011
We’ve got a playwright in Utah, a swim to Alcatraz, a specialty lacrosse store, and the Vintage Voices.
Rock on, brothers
Posted in Beyond Campus on July 15, 2011
For your listening pleasure, the groovy Nashville sounds of brothers Scott and Brian Hylbert.
‘The Denison Singers Turn Golden’
Posted in On Campus on June 29, 2011
Generations of Denison Singers alumni returned to Granville to celebrate the group’s 50th anniversary with a reunion concert—and much more.
‘To Denison’ like you’ve never heard it before
Posted in On Campus on April 28, 2011
As his own graduating gift, Harry Brisson ’11 gives Denison a brand new arrangement of the dear old alma mater.
Enchanting theatre
Posted in On Campus on April 12, 2011
Hither and thither with the Singer’s Theatre Workshop’s production of “Iolanthe.”
Learning from a legend
Posted in On Campus on April 5, 2011
Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain chat with students at The Roost and tear it up in Swasey for this year’s Vail Series finale.
‘New’ music rocks
Posted in On Campus on March 9, 2011
The Tutti New Music Festival gave students a chance to work with one-on-one renowned artists.
Nadja plays and speaks–and brings down the house
Posted in On Campus on February 7, 2011
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg gives a fiery Vail Series performance on a cold winter’s night.
In search of song
Posted in Beyond Campus on January 12, 2011
She was a talented musician, but it was her work as a folklorist and oral historian that will help to preserve Ohio’s musical past for generations to come.
Denison in the Blogosphere (1/6/11)
Posted in Beyond Campus on January 6, 2011
The best Denison-related content on the interwebs.
Candlelight collaboration
Posted in Beyond Campus on December 7, 2010
Enjoy a little holiday-themed music, as Ladies’ Night Out joins voices with a local choir.
He’s still got it
Posted in Beyond Campus on December 3, 2010
Richard Price ’52 may be retired, but he loves his current line of work.
Measure by measure
Posted in On Campus on November 19, 2010
Students play alongside two members of the acclaimed Pacifica Quartet as they work to perfect a dynamic bit of Beethoven.
Denison in the Blogosphere (10/14/10)
Posted in Beyond Campus on October 14, 2010
The best Denison-related content on the interwebs.
Bluegrassapalooza
Posted in On Campus on October 1, 2010
Student musicians cross strings with bluegrass superstars.
Venerable Vail
Posted in On Campus on September 27, 2010
The Vail Series’ 31st season kicks off with a virtuoso bluegrass jam. The Mark O’Connor Quartet and Dailey & Vincent will grace the Swasey stage.
Jazz, man
Posted in Academics & Research on September 24, 2010
Harry Brisson ’11 is majoring in econ and poly sci, but he spent his summer studying the evolution of the jazz sax.
Amber, aliens & the American diaspora
Posted in Academics & Research on September 10, 2010
Summer Scholars dish out their research in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts.
Great Wall, Great Music
Posted in Beyond Campus on September 8, 2010
Over the summer, more than 60 student musicians and several Music Department professors took a magical mystery tour through three Chinese cities in 10 days, along the way introducing American music to new audiences.



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