Campus Stories - Music
Stanford music professor wins Humboldt Research Award for lifetime achievement
Music Professor KAROL BERGER has received a 2014 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The 60,000 Euro award enables a scholar to spend a year working at a research institute in Germany and collaborating with other experts in the field. A scholar of Austro-German music, Berger intends to complete a long-term study…
STANFORD LIVE ANNOUNCES 2014-15 SEASON UPDATES
Stanford Live’s expanded 2014-15 season is becoming even more expanded. In addition to the nearly 60 performances already scheduled, Executive Director Wiley Hausam has announced four more added events to the 2014-15 lineup, the organization’s third season at Bing Concert Hall. Among the updates is Sound + Vision, a free arts open house on September…
Stanford library’s punk poster art collection revives ’80s musical history
The Stanford University Libraries host an impressive set of archival music collections ranging from 16th-century lute music to Dixieland jazz. Now, an unlikely cast of characters joins their ranks, as San Francisco punk stalwarts like Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys cozy up next to the likes of Jascha Heifetz on the library shelves. Unlike…
Inspiring Stanford humanities majors to consider business careers
On a recent summer morning, a lecture hall at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) was filled with students from around the world who were ready to analyze the fall – and subsequent resurrection – of an American kidney dialysis company. To prepare for the lecture, titled “A Deep Dive into Company Culture,” the students…
Summer Swing at the Bing on 7-26
In a turn—or maybe a twirl—away from Bing Concert Hall’s usual programs, Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, a local institution, are playing not the auditorium but the lobby. The band’s sizzling jazz will come complete with swing dance instruction from two Stanford grads, Paul Csonka and Rachel Liaw. Smith, a one-of-a-kind diva…
Time Out
The third annual Frost Music and Arts Festival took place on Saturday, May 17. On stage, campus-based mash-up Paper Void joined psychedelic pop band Yeasayer as opening acts for the indie group Dispatch. The festival took place in mid-quarter 2014—right in the middle of exams and papers. But the experience was an afternoon out of…
Haydn, Burney, England, and The Creation
On May 24, Dr. Robert Huw Morgan will conduct the University Singers and the Memorial Church Choir in a performance of Haydn’s Creation in Bing Concert Hall. This post highlights two important items in the Memorial Library of Music related to the work: a letter written by Haydn to his English friend Dr. Charles Burney…
Paper Void, Yeasayer open for veteran indie band Dispatch at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater
The third annual Frost Music and Arts Festival this Saturday, May 17, features three bands, a fleet of food trucks and several art installations created in Michael Sturtz’s d.school class specifically for the festival. The musical lineup at Frost Amphitheater starts with campus-local Paper Void, followed by Yeasayer and finally Dispatch. Tickets are on sale…
Seniors
On April 23 the senior class put on the second annual Senior Arts Gala in Bing Concert Hall. This new Stanford tradition is a great occasion. The students get a chance to celebrate their time at Stanford, take a step into the next phase of their lives (with a very sophisticated cocktail party)—and enjoy the…
Stanford inaugurates new academic arts program in Washington, D.C.
After meeting Kale Futterman, an arts practice major at Stanford, the chief curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., entrusted her with an important task – writing short art history essays, known as “wall text,” to mount next to some of the gallery’s paintings. Futterman created wall text for artists ranging from…
Stanford lecturer and artist leads ‘drawing orchestra’ through assembly of frustrated icosahedron to strains of Vivaldi
Before the full Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra takes the stage tonight at Bing Concert Hall to perform Antonio Vivaldi’s oratorio Juditha triumphans, four of its members will participate in something completely different. Stanford design lecturer and artist Pamela Davis Kivelson will lead her Drawing Orchestra, accompanied by the PBO foursome, in a choreographed construction performance titled…
Aeolus Quartet Goes Pro
When members of the Aeolus Quartet arrive at Stanford in April for a performance at Bing Concert Hall, they might as well be coming home. Starting with their first visit to campus in 2010, their mentors, the musicians of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, have welcomed them back for an alphabet of programs—ESQP, EPGY and…
Stanford’s string quartet course warrants an encore
Stanford’s winter Continuing Studies course “Quartet Conversations” was more than just talk. In addition to the musicological insights of Professor Stephen Hinton’s lectures on the history of the string quartet, students were treated to live illustrations and performance of the highest caliber. Hinton co-taught the course with Stanford’s ensemble in residence, the St. Lawrence String…
Stanford’s Pan-Asian Music Festival marks a 10-year milestone, and keeps going
The Pan-Asian Music Festival has been a musical odyssey for founder and artistic director Jindong Cai, and 10 years in, the journey continues. He sees endless possibilities for future festivals built around Asian countries, regions and artistic forms. With the 2014 festival a few days behind him, Cai is already thinking of 2015 and beyond…
Stanford to offer new undergraduate majors integrating humanities, computer science
In a new experiment aimed at integrating the humanities and computer science while providing students with unique educational experiences, Stanford will offer undergraduates the opportunity to pursue a new “joint major” in computer science and either English or music starting in fall 2014. The Faculty Senate approved the new joint majors on Thursday. English Professor…
