The Stranger
From the Best Portfolio-Study Abroad Photo Contest 2009-10
Photo By Lloyd L. Class of 2011 (Paris Civ in English)
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Seen on the Music Department’s website. Probably a forgotten placeholder, but hey, sign us up (or whatever).
For a full listing of the music department’s actual courses (Music in Western Civilization? Harmony and Voice Leading? 16th AND 18th-century Counterpoint? Awesome!) check out their course offerings here.
Scottish Ensemble with Alison Balsom
Mark your calendars. Friday, April 19th will see Alison Balsom grace the Logan Center and we can’t wait to hear her. This is part of an incredible University of Chicago presents lineup that you can find here. As for more details for Alison’s event, well, here you go.
MODA Presents: Beatz
UChicago’s student style organization are making playlists now.
(Photo above from their 2012 Fashion Show, by Tom Tian)
MuZiK!
Join the University of Chicago’s South Asian Sound Interventions as they host a week of events. The event is being hosted in conjunction with the Logan Center. More details can be found here.
Monday-Concert- Hindustani Strings at the Borderlands
Tuesday-Workshop-Musical Instruments across the Bengal Borderlands
Wednesday-Workshop-Workshop with Amie Maciszewski (pictured above).
Thursday-International Symposium-Performing the ‘Bengal Borderlands’
Friday- Mehfil: Musicians in Movement across the Borderlands
It’s gonna be awesome!!!
Anodyne !!!
College second-year Sean Hogan and his partner John Kittaka have just released their game, Anodyne. Its protagonist Young battles and trail-blazes his way through a dreamy, subconscious landscape. Hogan did the original music and the game’s coding. In fact, he honed his skills in the Computer Music sequence offered by the Music Dept. and in Honors Programming (Comp. Sci.)
Check out his game at anodynegame.com .
“Don’t be a star, just be a queen”
The University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s conductor, Barbara Schubert, strikes a pose after the 1992 Halloween Concert, one of UChicago’s most treasured traditions. Our stars shine the brightest.
Happy post-Halloween, everyone!
Cobb Coffee Shop
What the pictures can’t tell you is that Cobb’s music is eclectic, awesome and just the best thing to study to. Beyond coffee and coffee-like drinks, they have organic ice-cream sandwiches, Diet Coke with Lime, and take-out from local restaurants.
My favorite interaction in Cobb? There are two lines, one for cash, another for cards. For about a week the cash line sign had a post-it note stuck to it with a scrawled indication that they also accepted Bitcoin.
Excited student: “Wait, do you guys actually take Bitcoin?!?”
Cashier: “… No.”
(Photos by Ryan G.)
Lollapalooza 2012
This year’s Lola’s line-up was spectacular. The Black Keys, Wale, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Shins, Passion Pit and Avicii all tore up Chicago. Our city continues to take names and slay foes when it comes to music. First, there was Pitchfork, then Lolla, soon North Coast and come fall, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. This city is craaaazy!
Voices In Your Head
This weekend, Voices and Men In Drag traveled to Boston to compete in the Boston Sings a cappella festival at MIT. They won the collegiate competition, which gave them the opportunity to open for the BOSS professional showcase, take a masterclass with Cadence, and record with pro talent.
Voices was also successful at the CARA awards on Friday night: Chris Rishel won for best mixed arrangement, and they placed runner-up in three other categories: best mixed album, song (for I’d Like To) and solo (Elspeth Michaels for “I’d Like To”). Congratulations to all!
AHHH. Their chords in We Found Love are fantastic
UChicago Sextet Wins Grammy Award
Ensemble-in-residence eighth blackbird (taking its name from the 1917 Wallace Stevens poem, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,”) have won their third Grammy Award. The Chicago-based wind, string, piano and percussion group won in the category of small ensemble performance for its recording of Steve Mackey’s “Lonely Motel: Music from Slide” at the 54th Grammy Awards held Sunday, Feb. 12 in Los Angeles. Read more here.
Local bands, local music.
New Music - Soon as I Get Home Tonight
This is a local band in Chicago named Blah Blah Blah. This song I’m posting has a Cardigans-type of feel and I love it! Enjoy and watch the video if you can, it is very cute. See what happens when you give to others?
Happy 75th birthday to composer and UChicago alumnus Philip Glass (AB ‘56, who studied, surprisingly, math and philosophy in the College). Here’s the first movement of his String Quartet No. 5, performed by the Kronos String Quartet.
If you’re not a huge contemporary music nerd (and that’s totally OK, I think I may be the only person that is totally excited about this) you may remember his music from the Oscar-winning movie The Hours or from [everyone’s favorite AP Environmental Science substitute-teacher-day film] Koyaanisqatsi.
