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Yale Concert Band Performs “The Cancer-Free Party”
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On February 14, 2025, the Yale Concert Band, in partnership with the Sing Me a Story Foundation, performed the world premiere of my composition, “The Cancer-Free Party,” to celebrate a girl named Lola and her older brother Hamish, who suffers from a rare and aggressive cancer. The circumstances of the performance were a bit tricky.…
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I Dug up A Personal Narrative From Seventh Grade
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I visited Boston last weekend and stopped by my old home to see my parents and my brother. Before I left, my dad made sure I rifled through a box of some old middle school papers and materials.
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Transcribing and Composing a Modern Arrangement of “Byrd one brere”
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The oldest extant English love song remains as faded ink on warped manuscript paper kept in the King’s College Archives. A 14th-century scribe jotted down all the lyrics but did not bother to complete the music, leaving an entire staff blank.
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Dreamed-up Music: The role of dreams in musical creativity from 1740 to the present
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Dreaming and musical creativity alike may rely on a shared network of several brain regions, corroborating composers’ anecdotal claims that dreams play a significant role in their creativity.
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Sick of Love: Poor Prospects for Love-Sick Men in Three Subversive Medieval Lyrics
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Three medieval love lyrics close to each other in a manuscript known as Harley 2253 seem utterly unrelated to each other, apart from their pessimism and their sheer idiosyncrasy.
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Innovating Jazz by Rejecting the “Jazz” Label
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What Coleman and Pascoal share is a central pursuit of exploration, experimentation, and innovation that is held in conversation with their unequivocal rejection of the “jazz” label.
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Béla Bartók Has Beautiful Things to Say to You—Yes, You
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Have you had the chance to hear Bartók speaking to you?
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