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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A pack of coyotes, made of vitreous china and mounted on a wall, are running in different directions, fleeing human and disassembling as they go.

Composer Patrick Braga '17 conducts music for 'Eyes That Do Not See? during a rehearsal in Lincoln Hall with musicians Colin Barber '17 and Chris Worden '19.

Exene Cervenka and John Doe performed together at the Haunt in Ithaca Nov. 4 following a public conversation on campus as part of Punkfest Cornell.

'When you are living in Russia, you always feel [like you are] in the theater. It's a totally absurd world sometimes,' Masha Alyokhina of Russian feminist protest band Pussy Riot told a full house Nov.

Almost all of us get songs stuck in our heads from time to time but why do certain tunes have the 'stick factor'- The first large-scale study, led by Dr Kelly Jakubowski at Durham University, may have some answers to this musical stickiness. Bad Romance The study has shown that songs that get stuck in your head - called earworms or involuntary musical imagery - are usually faster, with a fairly generic and easy-to-remember melody but with some unique intervals such as leaps or repetitions that set it apart from the "average pop song".

New residency explores musical creativity in the age of social media In an increasingly digital age, how can we use social media to explore and share musical creativity?

An innovative new iPad app had been created to bring classical Indian music to a new audience. The app called Khyal , has been developed by experts from Durham University's Department of Music.

Why does one of the world's great research libraries have 'ectoplasm', a spirit trumpet and beard hair posted to Charles Darwin among its eight million books, manuscripts and digital collections? We've opened cupboards and found wall paintings from Pompeii.

A Cardiff University composer will conduct the world premiere performance of his new work to close the last night of the Music for Youth PROMS concert series.

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television's Department of Theater announced its upcoming Mainstage theater season for the academic year 2016-17, which includes "Carrie the Musical," an adaptation of the popular Stephen King novel "Carrie.

For University of Pennsylvania senior Konhee Chang, Kandinsky's 'Circles in a Circle' painting sings.

The Alloy Orchestra returns to Cornell Cinema Nov. 3-5 to perform original scores for four classic European silent films in Willard Straight Theatre.

David Silverman has loved Egypt since he was a child visiting the famous New York City museums with his aunt and brother.

Memories of the post war Highlands and Islands Film Guild coming to villages and rural communities are being sought by researchers at the Universities of Glasgow and Stirling.

First World War poems inspire new music by Sussex composer Music inspired by the tragic words of First World War poets and composed by a University of Sussex music lecturer will premiere in London in November.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When choreographer Tere O'Connor creates a dance, he isn't trying to tell a story, depict a specific idea or deliver a message.

A powerful piece of performance inspired by research carried out by a University of Bristol academic which explores legends and rituals of the Virgin Mary in medieval Spain, will be premiered next month.

Donation Ceremony on October 21, 2016, at Dept.

The Cornell Witchcraft Collection contains documents that are hundreds of years old, including witch-hunting manuals and pamphlets and minutes from 16th - , 17th - and 18th-century European witch trials.

Talented young dancers in the spotlight for Men & Girls Dance this October Performance company Fevered Sleep will bring its joyful and thought-provoking project, Men & Girls Dance , to the University of Sussex's Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts this October.

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Local Paralympian swimming stars Ollie Hynd and Charlotte Henshaw have given their seal of approval to a brand new state-of-the art sports village on the University of Nottingham's University Park campus.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Artist Horace Pippin was well-known in the 1930s and 1940s for his paintings of African-American life and for his commentary on war.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — I wrote "Domino Players, 1943" after studying Horace Pippin's celebrated painting, exhibited by the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. This "memory painting" depicts Pippin's childhood in Goshen, New York.

A LEXA ROMANO SEES THINGS IN people that are indistinguishable to all but those who refuse to be blinded by the weariness of daily existence.

The University of Glasgow has been invited by UNESCO's Director General to join its prestigious universities network (the UNESCO Chairs) and establish the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts.

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Four generations of punk luminaries - including John Doe and Exene Cervenka, Ian MacKaye, Aaron Cometbus, Shonen Knife, Victoria Ruiz and members of Pussy Riot - will gather at Cornell Nov.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The cabin by the water looks just like the one that Henry David Thoreau built and lived in.

ANU today announced it would invest $12.5 million in strategic funds in the School of Music over the next five years to ensure a bright future for music teaching and research at the University.

New play commemorating partition of India based on harrowing real-life stories A play written by a University of Sussex academic who researches the India-Pakistan partition of 1947 is to premier in Crawley next week.

A new report has revealed that universities are pivotal to the growth of the creative economy. The REACT Report details four years of work establishing an innovative collaborative network of universities and creative sector businesses funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, AHRC.

RobertH. Lieberman set out to paint a portrait of modern-day Cambodia with his new documentary, - Angkor Awakens.' As a people, Cambodians are struggling to understand their past under a violent regime and its legacy of social unrest, while its growing young population is hopeful for the future.

Latin classical, Cornell orchestras Dynamic young chamber orchestra Sphinx Virtuosi performs Sept. 30 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall as part of the 2016-17 Cornell Concert Series.

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All proceeds from the concert will help establish an endowed chair in jazz studies in Burrell's name Ariane Bicho The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music with Friends of Jazz at UCLA will stage a benefit concert to honor Kenny Burrell, distinguished professor and director of jazz studies at UCLA.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two Brazilian musicians who play different instruments and represent two distinct regional musical styles will perform together for the first time on the University of Illinois campus.

Stony Island Arts Bank will serve as the pilot site in an initiative to foster civic engagement, economic opportunity and environmental sustainability.