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Christopher Clark to become director of choirs, music education lecturer
Christopher Clark will join the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music this fall as director of choirs and full-time lecturer in music education. He will direct the Case Concert Choir and Case Men’s Glee Club, teach vocal skills and pedagogy, and mentor students in choral m...
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Recognizing excellence in teaching: Lisa Nielson earns Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award
In 2008, the Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award was established to honor distinguished teaching in the SAGES program, part of Case Western Reserve’s current core undergraduate curriculum. Each year, students are invited to nominate their instructors who go above and beyond both in and out of the classroom...
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The science of music
Engineering majors combine their passions to create digital musical instruments This spring, a small class of musically inclined engineering students learned how to bridge the gap between their passions for STEM and the creative arts when they signed up for the electrical, computer and systems engi...
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Music’s Susan McClary to accept honorary degree, give address at Cleveland Institute of Music commencement ceremony
Susan McClary, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, engaged in conversation with contemporary director Peter Sellars during a Case Western Reserve University Department of Music event in October 2019. In that discussion, they considered the future of music, predicting that the traditional music ...
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Music’s Daniel Goldmark earns 2021 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Mentoring
When Daniel Goldmark was a first-year undergraduate student, he felt confused about his future. Having just switched his major from botany to music, Goldmark took a chance and reached out to one of his professors in search of some much-needed guidance. “Even though he wasn’t my official academic ad...
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CWRU Pep Band performance
Join the CWRU Pep Band for a performance Saturday, May 1, from 2:15 to 3 p.m. at Freiberger Field. Members of the community are invited to bring a blanket or folding chair and celebrate the end of the semester with spirit....
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5 questions with… Aaron McPeck, Graduate Student Council president, music PhD candidate
As president of Graduate Student Council (GSC), sixth-year PhD candidate Aaron McPeck is an essential link between the university’s administration and its graduate and professional students. It’s a role he relishes as an aspiring higher education administrator. “I love watching people succeed, and ...
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“Folksong and Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe”
The study of folksong in Czechoslovakia became increasingly enmeshed with research on race and ethnicity through the 20th century. Folk melodies appear alongside studies of phrenology and blood type as early as 1905. By the 1920s, the “purity” of folksong was understood to evidence the “purity” of a...
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“The Sight of Sound: Vocal Intervention through Anatomical Alteration”
In the late 19th century, the invention of new devices for seeing inside the human body coincided with a sudden enthusiasm for medical specialization. At the same time, the Parisian government put physicians directly in charge of opera singers and other vocal performers. The new profession of laryng...
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Siegal Lifelong Learning Program offers remote course celebrating 100 years of classical women artists
In honor of the 19th Amendment’s recent 100th anniversary, the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a course as a timely tribute to the contribution women artists have made to great music. Featuring trail-blazing artists of the past and present, “One Hundred Years of Great Women Classical Arti...