100 Years of Powerful Pipes
Irvine Auditorium’s Curtis Organ is 100 years old.
Player Piano
“My grandfather was a piano maker.”
Mimi’s Magic Flute
Mimi Stillman G’03 is “grateful for my life as a musician.”
Pleasing the Ancestors
Jill Abramovitz C’93 and Gideon Evans C’93 bring back the Borscht Belt.
Commemorating “Collegiate”
“Collegiate” is 100. “Rah! Rah! Rah!”
The Organ Protector
Ray Biswanger C’75 watches over the Wanamaker Organ.
On Highway 67 (and Beyond)
In a varied and decades-long career as a photographer and videographer Charlie Steiner C’68 has traveled around the world. But he still keeps coming back to the 1960s on Penn’s campus, where he got his start.
Beyond the Bruckner Problem
How Benjamin Korstvedt Gr’95 solved “the Bruckner problem.”
Royals
Lorene Cary C’78 G’78’s queenly collaboration.
Renaissance Man Recaptured
“Red and Blue” composer William J. Goeckel C1895 L1896 honored.
Tyshawn Sorey Wins Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Tyshawn Sorey’s Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith).
Finding Nimo
Nimo Patel W’00 wants “to be an instrument of whatever good I can be.”
The Chip Zien Show
His acclaimed starring turn in Harmony was cut short by the harsh economics of Broadway musicals, but the theater, film, and TV stalwart is still looking ahead after seven decades in the spotlight.
Cardboard, Chicken Wire, and the Oxford Comma
Penn alumni put on a show about The Angry Grammarian.
Secrets of the Sun
Illuminating Sun Ra at the Penn Libraries.
Time Stretcher
From swinging standards to avant garde nonconformism, Penn music professor, jazz drummer, and shapeshifting composer Tyshawn Sorey has won acclaim for “awesomely confounding” music whose “vulnerable virtuosity” can “open different portals in your depth of feeling and imagination.”
Orchestral Maneuvers
Philadelphia Orchestra archives coming to Penn Libraries.
Got ’Pipes?
Thom Moore C’87 ditched publishing for life as a bagpiper.
Upon This Rock
Evan Thomas W’20’s Foundations explores multiple identities.
The Well-Tempered Neurologist
Alex Pantelyat C’04’s life “of rhythm, melody, and patient care.”
Singalong
Pennchants’ “Social Distance-SING” raised $27,000 for charity.
Preserving a Pioneer
Penn Libraries “reintroduces” Marian Anderson Hon’58.
Rocking Around the Decades with Rob and Eric
The pandemic has hit pause on 20+20—the planned 40th anniversary tour for their iconic 1980s band the Hooters—but Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian insist the show will go on (20+20+1), while keeping musically busy in the meantime.
Text Message
Composer James Primosch G’80 gets vocal.