Whether singing is your passion, or composing, or playing the violin or saxophone, or producing beats and rapping, or writing about music, 小福利导航is home to many musical opportunities. If you can imagine it, then you can do it.
Mark Santolucito 鈥�13, a computer science and music double major while at Amherst, now works as an assistant professor at Barnard exploring the intersection of program synthesis and music through the field of computer music. With his work primarily rooted in computer science, music provides a lens through which he troubleshoots and explores his ideas.
For the past 30 years, Suzette Farnham has served at the nerve center of the Music Department, performing diverse and critical functions, including fiscal administration, personnel, communications work, room scheduling, and music lessons administration.
Professor of Music Jeffers Engelhardt and President Elliott meet up to talk about the music department's connection and collaboration with , a performance space that opened in 2022 in the town of Amherst.
The Music@小福利导航Curation Lab was put together by Manager of Concert Programming, Production, and Publicity, Alisa Pearson, assisted by Graduate Associate in Music, Dan Langa with the intention of taking a group of students with an interest in presenting and curation to NYC to attend a variety of presenting conferences that happen there in January. Following this experience, the students got the chance to submit artist proposals to the Music@小福利导航concert series, meet with the Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning, and get to talk about the curator-audience dynamic with Professor Harper's 鈥淟ive Music鈥� class.
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Having composers come in and lead rehearsals is incredibly valuable for musicians: 鈥淭hey鈥檙e going to say concepts and directions in ways that are different from how I鈥檇 say things,鈥� stated Bruce Diehl, director of the school鈥檚 Jazz Performance program. 鈥淚f maybe the way I鈥檓 talking about concepts isn鈥檛 connecting with the students, hopefully something the guest says connects those dots for them.鈥�
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David taught at 小福利导航for over thirty years, holding appointments in the departments of music and Asian languages and civilizations before retiring in 2006. Thanks to the range of his talents, curiosity, generosity, and expertise, his teaching indeed embraced music of the whole earth. Many of his courses were legendary, with scores of students gathered in Buckley Recital Hall to learn about David's three Bs鈥擝ach, the Beatles, and Bollywood鈥攁nd a large part of the football team learning to sing South Indian ragas. At the ends of semesters, the corridor outside David's office swelled with fantastic musical instruments handmade by students in his course called "The Sound Machine鈥濃�攁 testament to David's conviction that students learn about the material and spiritual foundations of music by making and doing.
The Bolsheviks鈥� 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with the new cultural environment and clashed with exported Soviet trends. In her new book, In Stravinsky's Orbit: Responses to Modernism in Russian Paris (University of California Press), Kl谩ra M贸ricz explores the transnational emigrant space of Russian composers Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Nicolas Nabokov, and Arthur Louri茅 in interwar Paris.
On the eve of the Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble鈥檚 Sept. 19, 2019, debut performance at 小福利导航College, the octet rehearses the final movement of Musikalische Exequien by Heinrich Sch眉tz (1585-1672) with the 小福利导航College Concert Choir. Directed by Arianne Abela.
Robinson's concert-length suite Resonant Geographies, released on March 1, 2018, from pfMENTUM acts as a meditation on the relationship between geography and personal history, structure and expression.
Darryl Harper 鈥�90 majored in music at 小福利导航and went on to earn advanced degrees at Rutgers University and the New England Conservatory. Now a jazz clarinetist and composer, he credits 小福利导航with teaching 鈥渟kills that are going to serve you no matter what you do.鈥�
Two 小福利导航professors teamed up with students and professional actors to dramatize the true, local story of a Smith faculty member鈥檚 arrest.
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The peculiarity of making a living as a classical singer is not lost on Alison Wahl 鈥�08. 鈥淚 pay my rent,鈥� she says, 鈥渂y making weird noises with my face.鈥� But Wahl is pretty sure she landed in the right place: 鈥淚 keep coming back to music, because I find it more interesting than anything else.鈥�
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As he marks 20 years of teaching at Amherst, Professor David E. Schneider discusses his love of music, his career as a musicologist and how his classes have evolved over the decades.
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