Creative Expressions
- Founded by a collaborative including CU Boulder scholars, the Lyripeutics Storytelling Project aims to empower Black and Brown youth through the medium of hip-hop.
- If someone says they‘re a Shakespeare expert, don’t believe them. Take it from Amanda Giguere, and get seven tips for enjoying a Shakespeare play.
- A wealth of influences coexist in Enion Pelta-Tiller’s ambitious, experimental approach to music. A master’s candidate in jazz performance, plus pedagogy, her creative evolution to date will culminate in a show at Dazzle Denver on March 11.
- Distinguished Professor of Piano David Korevaar found an alternative to celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday in the face of COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing five years ago.
- With support from a Center for Humanities & the Arts grant, the Chicago-based Nois Saxophone Quartet returned to the College of Music as part of the Faculty Tuesdays and SoundWorks series, increasing the learning horizon “tenfold.”
- The Grammy Award-winning Takács Quartet is reflecting on a remarkable journey and the group’s founding a half-century ago.
- When Angel Mollel enrolled in her capstone documentary class, she wanted to make a film she was proud of. She fulfilled the goal, with the added bonus of winning a regional Student Emmy Award.
- Erin Block, e-resources metadata and reporting manager at the University Libraries, shares her thoughts on winning the 2024 Colorado Book Award for poetry and process for writing her debut poetry collection “How You Walk Alone in the Dark.”
- The College of Music’s 2024 New Opera Workshop is underway, leading up to performances of Gene Scheer’s “Polly Peachum,” as well as performances of opera scenes presented by the Composer Fellows’ Initiative in June.
- The College of Music’s Thompson Jazz Studies Program will be shaking up this year’s commencement ceremony with new takes on the timeless “Pomp and Circumstance,” reimagined in the styles of Latin jazz, New Orleans funk and big band swing.