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Fredonia alumnus accepts fellowship with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Reading Time: 3 minutesKORI BARKLEY Staff Writer In hopes of promoting and reflecting the diverse communities and audiences that orchestras embody, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has implemented a Diversity Plan. The EQT Orchestra Training Program for African American Musicians, a program of the plan, was created in 2007 to work to prepare African......
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Masterworks concert features ‘Lord Nelson Mass,’ ‘Eclipse’

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Reading Time: 3 minutesKORI BARKLEY Staff Writer Now in its seventh year, the Masterworks Scholarship Benefit Concert has grown to become the highlight performance in the School of Music. This was evident on Sunday, April 27, because Rosch Recital Hall was near full capacity as the College Symphony Orchestra and Masterworks Chorus presented......
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Musical theatre students prepare to work with Jason Robert Brown Tony-winning composer to hold lecture, master class and recital

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMAGGIE GILROY Editor in Chief “When I was little, my oldest sister had all these musical CDs, and I remember the first one was ‘RENT’ and then another one that she got was ‘The Last Five Years,’ and that was when it first came out,” said Alanna Henriquez, a senior......
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Keyboardist of Snarky Puppy shares his talents with Fredonia

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Reading Time: 3 minutesKORI BARKLEY Staff Writer The once Texas, now New York-based, collective of musicians known as Snarky Puppy play an infectious fusion of jazz, funk, soul and world music, or “music to move the brain and booty,” as the band describes it. Snarky Puppy features a collective of at least 40......
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Theater review: Spring Awakening

Reading Time: 3 minutesREBECCA HALE Reverb Editor Last weekend, President Virginia Horvath’s backyard was transformed into a traveling theater for the Performing Arts Company’s production of “Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy,” a play written in 1890 by Frank Wedekind. “Spring Awakening” is a play which aims to reveal a certain exercise of power......

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