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Music junior faculty explore the world through music and sound.
“Are music and sound just aesthetic forms, or are they actually ways to study sociopo...
Grossman Ensemble honored by Library of Congress invitation
On November 15, the Grossman Ensemble will perform in the Library of Congress’s famed Coolidge Auditorium—a rare distinction that recognizes the Ensem...
Your opera
Graduate student performers embody anarchy at the opera to cap off the 2025 Berlin Family Lectures.
With minimal rehearsal time and a sparsely set st...
Five UChicago Humanities Faculty Members Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships
The following was published in UChicago News on January 6, 2025.
Five University of Chicago Humanities faculty members have received distinguished ...
Crossing sonic borderlands
Graduate students trace patterns of music and migration.In 2022 Philip V. Bohlman, the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish Hi...
Prof. Philip V. Bohlman to address complexity of "doing good" through music during Humanities Day keynote
By Sara Patterson
A pioneering ethnomusicologist, Prof. Philip V. Bohlman seeks to reveal how music helps human beings deal with critical ideas and...
Acclaimed UChicago composer's new orchestral composition debuts at the New York Philharmonic
By Sara PattersonFor University Prof. Augusta “Gusty” Read Thomas, each new work is an adventure. She describes her new orchestral work Bebop Kaleidos...
A UChicago Composer Finds Inspiration in Rome
The following was published in UChicago News on February 19, 2024.
Editor’s note: This story is part of Dispatches from Abroad, a series highli...
Music and Medicine Foster Creativity and Belonging at South Side School
The following was published in UChicago News on February 15, 2024.
By Benjamin Ransom
University of Chicago student Alli Marney-Bell was surpris...
Learning in concert
Award-winning composition PhD students share the full range of their skills.
“The students are winning everything!” said University Professor of Comp...