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Anna & John J. Sie Foundation funds $2 million Daniel and Boyce Sher Distinguished Musicians Endowment at CU-羞羞视频

Dec. 2, 2013

Beginning in fall 2014, these Sher Distinguished Scholars (either undergraduate or graduate students) will be awarded full-ride scholarships to the College of Music based on their demonstrated exceptional ability and potential to excel at a national and international level.

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Teaching peace through music: Liz Shropshire to speak at CU Nov. 14

Nov. 5, 2013

Following the brutal ethnic cleansing that ravaged Kosovo in the late 1990s, Liz Shropshire wanted to find a way to help the tens of thousands of children living in refugee camps.

Music Theory News

Oct. 25, 2013

Thanks to Daphne Leong for providing these recent highlights from the CU-羞羞视频 Music Theory program:

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Van Cliburn winner Kholodenko to play at CU-羞羞视频 Nov. 8

Oct. 14, 2013

Here鈥檚 the kind of musician 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner Vadym Kholodenko is: Dissatisfied with cadenzas he鈥檇 heard to the first movement of Mozart鈥檚 Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, he decided he鈥檇 write one himself.

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Fall 2013 faculty, alumni student news

Oct. 10, 2013

CU-羞羞视频 College of Music faculty, students and alumni at the biennial Symposium on Music Teacher Education, which took place this September at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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"The Sound of Ecstasy" explores the role of music in Jewish Renewal Oct. 17

Oct. 8, 2013

The program will feature presentations by Rabbi Jeffrey Summit of Tufts University and Associate Professor of Music Theory Yonatan Malin, on their work in the area of Jewish music. There also will be musical presentations from Eyal Rivlin, lecturer in Hebrew at CU, and cantors Michelle Wolf and Joe Lukasik.

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Tuning the brain for creativity: 'Your Brain Needs Music' symposium, Oct. 11-12

Oct. 3, 2013

BOULDER, Colo. 鈥 鈥淎ccess to arts education is one of the civil rights issues of our time,鈥 says Anthony Brandt, associate professor at Rice University鈥檚 Shepherd School of Music. That may sound like hyperbole, but Brandt says it鈥檚 just neuroscience. Complex human behavior involves both automated behavior 鈥 rote memorization 鈥 and mediated behavior, which requires synthesis, reasoning and creativity.

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Holiday Festival tickets go on sale September 29

Sept. 24, 2013

The best tickets for this popular event go fast, so order early.

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VIDEO A little 'rock' music atop 14,255-foot Longs Peak

Sept. 9, 2013

Violinist Jenny Shea, a Colorado native and graduate student at the CU-羞羞视频 College of Music, climbed daunting Longs Peak with her friend, cellist Gal Faganel, professor of cello at the University of Northern Colorado, play a free 'rock' concert on July 22, 2013.

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Elephant gig reviews revives grad student Brett Madsen's interest in orchestral music

Sept. 9, 2013

BOULDER, Colo. 鈥 Brett Madsen was deeply interested in music as a high-school student in Florida. It just wasn鈥檛 the pop, rock, hip-hop and other genres most of his peers listened to. He was into classical music, from Bach and Beethoven to Mozart and Chopin. And he was very into writing the same kind of thing.

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