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Alum Valerie Coleman Debuts “Seven O’Clock Shout” with Philadelphia Orchestra
Composer/flutist/teacher Valerie Coleman (BUTI’89, CFA’95) has been commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra to premiere her “Seven O’Clock Shout.” Photo by Benedict Evans Originally published in The...
View ArticleBU Today feature: Father, Son/Teacher, Pupil
This article was originally published on June 22, 2020. Video by Devin Hahn. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck Boston, sending students home for remote learning for the...
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BU Today feature: Kirsten Greenidge Promoted to Associate Professor
This article was originally published on June 25, 2020. “Each year, these promotions and awards of tenure mark an especially proud moment for the BU community, as we’ve had the pleasure of watching...
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BU Today feature: Full Coverage of BU’s Day of Collective Engagement
BU Today writers attended the all-day sessions Wednesday for the University’s Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles. Read updates, highlights, fascinating...
View ArticleBU Today feature: Quarantined BU Band Rocks “Shipping Up to Boston”
This article was originally published in BU Today on July 1, 2020. Early this week, the Twitter handle for BU Bands posted this question on social media: “We think it’s time to drop a new video of...
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BU Today feature: BU Global Music Festival Gets $15K Grant from National...
Marcus Santos’ Grooversity, a Boston-area group, performing at the 2019 BU Global Music Festival. Photo by Dave Green Photography This article was originally published in BU Today on July 2, 2020. By...
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Visual Arts Faculty & Alumni Participate in Virtual Exhibitions
While there's no substitute for experiencing a work of art in person, galleries and artist-run spaces are creatively rethinking how to share work and foster artistic community in spite of social...
View ArticleBU Today feature: BU Alum Turns to Social Media to Raise Funds in Support of...
This article was originally published in Bostonia on July 8, 2020. By Jason Kimball. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer in Minnneapolis, Natalie...
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BU Today feature: Acclaimed Sculptor Lloyd Lillie Dies
Lloyd Lillie, with his bronze sculpture Abigail & John Quincy Adams (1997), in Quincy, Mass. Photo by Fred Sway This article originally appeared in BU Today on July 13, 2020. Lloyd Lillie was an...
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OperaWire Feature: Morris Robinson on Racism in Opera, Verdi & the...
Originally published in OperaWire on July 15, 2020. Written by Francisco Salazar Bass Morris Robinson is one of the most sought after performers in opera. He has slowly built up his repertoire...
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BU Today feature: Dreaming of Boston, When the Pandemic Is Behind Us
This article was originally published in BU Today on July 24, 2020. By Joel Brown In 2024, a custodian gives a young woman access to MIT’s Great Dome so she can scatter her professor father’s ashes...
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Bostonia feature: On the Art of Storytelling
This article was originally published in CFA magazine and Bostonia. A conversation with podcasters Erika B. Hess, of I Like Your Work, and Erika Block, of Inside The Notes Artist and curator Erika B....
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BU Today feature: Do Children’s Media Serve Up a Properly Diverse Musical Diet?
This article was originally published in BU Today on August 27, 2020. By Rich Barlow Who says research is tedious? To prepare herself last spring for a study of children’s music, Sabrina Scotti boned...
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The Brink feature: How One BU Researcher Is Empowering Prisoners with Music
André de Quadros, pictured here standing outside the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, teaches music to underserved populations to create space that he says is centered on “empowerment, personal...
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Boston University College of Fine Arts appoints new faculty
New full-time faculty joined Boston University College of Fine Arts in fall 2020. Top (from left): James Burton, Wendy C. Goldberg, David Guzman, Brian Kellum; bottom (from left): Meena Hasan,...
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BU Today feature: Action. Racism. Hope. Students Show Their COVID-19 Lives in...
Artwork courtesy of Ajay Ramnarine (ENG’20) This article was originally published in BU Today on September 1, 2020. When COVID-19 forced his figure drawing class online, Hugh O’Donnell, a Boston...
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Art in a Pandemic: Call for Art
The Stone Gallery on the first floor of 855 Commonwealth Ave. was recently renovated. Newly opened arched windows along the building’s façade allow passersby to glimpse the artwork inside. Art in a...
View ArticleBostonia feature: The Art of Glass Enamel
This article was originally published in Bostonia on August 25, 2020. Artist Barbara Marder trained as a painter in the 1960s and still paints today. But often her medium is glass enamel and her...
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BU Tanglewood Institute: A Gift to Future Students
Robin Kim (Parent BUTI’17,’18,’19) has seen firsthand how attached students become to their teachers and friends at Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI). Her daughter Madeline played cello in...
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‘Visual Conversation Piece’ at 808 Comm Ave Documents Student Voices
Two-Part Installation Shares Words of Inspiration By Alex Ross (COM'22) Welcome Orientation. The first chance for incoming College of Fine Arts students of all ages to shed their former personas and...
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