Linehan Artist Scholar and Cello Performance major Christian Hartman has been performing as a snare drummer with Baltimore’s Marching Ravens. Some summer performances include a flash mob at the...
August 29, 2018
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Author: Matthew King
Music will sometimes serve as a representation of a musician's psyche. Matthew King explores Clara Schumann's composition "Die Lorelei" and how it displays the thoughts of a composer potentially...
June 14, 2018
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Author: Collin David
American composer George Whitefield Chadwick has fallen into obscurity, but should be recognized as one of America's leading composers of nationalist classical music. He wrote American nationalist...
June 14, 2018
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Stewart Dailey was recently featured on the Baltimore City Public Schools "The Newsroom" website. The feature highlights Dailey's teaching, philosophies, and insights into his life outside of the...
April 11, 2018
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Author: Brotherhood in the Romantic Period
Pirzchalski explores the deep friendship between Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré, surmising that the emotional, musical, and professional support these two composers provided for one another...
February 14, 2018
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Audrey Andrist, Affiliate Artist in Piano at UMBC, and her trio, Strata, were recently featured in an article by Recordnet. The article discusses a recent performance the trio had in Stockton for...
February 13, 2018
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Author: Manuel Ayala Sapelli
Sapelli examines the harmonic nature of pieces sung by Carmen and Don Jose in Bizet's opera Carmen, concluding that audience sympathy with Don Jose's character via his music does not match up with...
February 7, 2018
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Over the course of the term we will be publishing blog posts our students created for Dr. Lindsay Johnson's course MUSC 322 Music History II (1700-1915). For the assignment, first the students...
February 1, 2018
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Author: Stacey Fitzgerald
The onset of the Russian Revolution changed Russian musical style from one that privileged the values and ideals of the aristocrats to one that celebrated the ideals of the Revolution and the...
February 1, 2018
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Author: Daniel Gallagher
Audiences are more appreciative of musical prodigies based on their young ages, rather than on their musical complexity and nuance. Gallagher explains the history of the modern idea of the prodigy...
February 1, 2018
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