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.
Crumb in Autumn
Q&A with composer George Crumb Hon’09 at 90.
Fight On, Pennsylvania!
“Fight On, Pennsylvania!” crosses line to 100.
The Woman Behind the Music
Nicole George-Middleton C’97 champions women in music.
Here for the Music
Alan “Bo” Leibowitz C’67 spent 40 years celebrating jazz on the radio.
“A Spirit of Possibility in the Air”
Music critic Nate Chinen C’97 on his book, Playing Changes.
“Nothing Mattered but the Music”
A story of performance, friendship, and survival. Two Pianos.
Music in the Key of Green
Presenting the Morris Arboretum Suite.
Three Music Masters
Masters of music, 1977.
Mock Me, Ludwig
On a humorous note, Beethoven.
The Philosophical Composer
In the year of his centenary, a look back at the music and thought of American composer and Penn faculty member George Rochberg G’49, who first embraced 12-tone music and serialism and later rejected avant-garde styles as a form of “self-extinction.”
Songs of Love and Kvetch
Robert Freedman L’54 and his wife, Molly, have a gift for music.
Plies and Pirouettes, Rock and Roll
Hank Aberman C’60 G’62 is an unlikely—but successful!—librettist.
Sounds of Settlement
Settlement Music School CEO Helen Eaton C’93.
Everyone’s Song
Penn’s vibrant a cappella community contains a multitude of musical styles and cultural influences. Take a listen.
Sweet 16
Daedalus to play all 16 Beethoven string quartets in a single season.