CFA Applauds Inspiring Young Alums 2015
BU College of Fine Arts celebrates the 2015 recipients of the Inspiring Young Alumni Awards. From left, Dean ad interim, College of Fine Arts and Professor of Art, Lynne Allen, recipients actor Greg...
View ArticleDavid Delmar (CFA’06) makes Boston Magazine’s Power of Ideas 2015 list
Boston Magazine‘s October issue named CFA alum David Delmar (CFA’06) on their Power of Ideas 2015 list. The series highlights “10 Bostonians who are upending the way we live, lead, and learn.” Delmar...
View ArticleStone Gallery Exhibition Recalls the Horrors of Hiroshima
Iri and Toshi Maruki were a young married couple living in Tokyo in August 1945, when American forces dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on the city of Hiroshima, killing more than 100,000...
View ArticleBrooke Karzen (CFA’84) promoted to EVP, Alternative Programming & Development...
CFA alumna Brooke Karezen (CFA’84), who was instrumental in launching The Voice and The Bachelor franchise, was promoted to Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming and Development, Warner...
View ArticleA Message from Dean Allen about BU Theatre Decision
Dear CFA community and friends, Boston University recently announced its decision to sell the BU Theatre and its adjacent properties. Details about the decision, the thorough discussion that preceded...
View ArticleTheoretical Traditions in the Enlightenment
“From where do these chords come?” Theoretical Traditions in the Enlightenment The Enlightenment— a period that gave birth to democracy as well as the musical concepts of chords, tonic and dominant—...
View ArticleOn the Road with Classic Repertory Company
An interview with Director of Classic Repertory Company Clay Hopper “BU tends to cultivate students in this way. We make actors who have their eye on the bigger picture.” Located in nearby Watertown,...
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Alumnus Wins Wagner Society of New York Prize
Clay Hilley (CFA OI ’11) is the most recent winner of the Robert Lauch Memorial Fund Award from the Wagner Society of New York. Hilley was a member of the Boston University Opera Institute. The...
View ArticleUp, Up, and Away: Interview with Photography Lecturer Toni Pepe
“The role of experimentation is important. Students see, firsthand, that creativity is a process involving trial, error, failure, and the unexpected.” In an interdisciplinary project incorporating STEM...
View ArticleCenter for Beethoven Research presents Benefit Concert featuring Joseph...
Renowned violinist and former Boston Symphony Orchestra concertmaster to perform all-Beethoven program at the College of Fine Arts Concert Hall — Tuesday, November 3rd; Inaugural season of events to...
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Current Student Sings for Congressional Black Caucus
Denise Ward (CFA BM ’16), a senior vocal performance major studying with Phyllis Hoffman, sang for the Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on September 19, 2015....
View ArticleAn Evening with Deborah Borda
An Evening with Debroah Borda — Co-presented by Boston Musica Viva, Richard Pittman, music director, and the Boston University School of Music, Richard Cornell, Director ad Interim. Through this...
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Cimarrón: Virtuosos of the Colombia Joropo Llanero Tradition
Cimarrón: Virtuosos of the Colombia Joropo Llanero Tradition Pre-concert lecture by Prof. Michael Birnbaum Quintero Monday October 19, 2015 noon-1pm CFA Concert Hall With a wild, powerful and...
View ArticleVisiting Artist: Huma Bhabha
Monday, November 9, 6:30 pm Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Huma Bhabha pushes the limits of human figuration with sculptures of grotesque dignity. Combining basic...
View ArticleFaculty Perform Mozart, Ravel, & Prokofiev
Join our distinguished faculty members Pavel Nersessian and Peter Zazofsky as they perform works by Mozart, Ravel, and Prokofiev. This event is free and open to the public. Date, Time & Place...
View ArticleChamber Orchestra & Chorus Perform Handel, Haydn, & Britten
Join the Boston University Chamber Orchestra and Boston University Singers as they perform the music of Handel, Haydn, and Britten featuring faculty member Catherine Liddell. Tiffany Chang and Scott...
View ArticleOctober 28: Bryn Imagire of Pixar
Wednesday, October 28, 4:30–5:30 pm Room 500, CFA Building Bryn Imagire is a digital artist and Shading Art Director for Pixar Animation Studios, and has worked on films including Toy Story 2,...
View ArticleBU Symphony Performs Faculty Premiere
Join the Boston University Symphony Orchestra as they perform the music of Harbison and Nielsen, and the World Premiere of faculty member John H. Wallace’s Symphony. David Hoose and Lina Gonzalez,...
View ArticleOpera Institute Workshops Ouroboros Trilogy
Beth Morrison Projects, a creative production company hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “an exciting harbinger for the future of opera,” and Friends of Madame White Snake, a not-for-profit cultural...
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Currents of Change
Eleven countries, 400 million people, 4,300 miles of river—50 years of political discord. Can the music of the Nile Project bring harmony to a struggling region? By Suki Casanave | Photo by Matjaz...
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