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Frost School of Music faculty member Carlos Abril highlights how demographic characteristics influence enrollment in specific types of high school music courses. High school is perhaps the most impactful time in a person's life-for Carlos Abril, it was a time in his life when he discovered his love for music.

Romain Fleury, a tenure-track assistant professor who heads the Laboratory of Wave Engineering, has been named best teacher in electrical and electronic engineering.

With an abundant imagination for sound and music, Prof. Augusta Read Thomas unfolds fresh sonic perspectives and a personal artistic voice in soaring pieces played around the world-all while shaping the field of classical composition at the University of Chicago.

As the Class of 2023 joins the University of Chicago's intellectual community, five incoming students share their diverse personal stories and what they're looking forward to at UChicago: While many s

Stanford Live presents Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) , composed by Bryce Dessner (The National).

The upcoming theater season at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television includes the production of Bertolt Brecht's "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," the opera "Juana" — a collaboration with UCLA Opera and UCLA Philharmonia — and the seminal rock musical "Hair.

When korde arrington tuttle was growing up in North Carolina in the 1990s, he felt like he had to live in a world with strict boundaries drawn around what he could do, and how he could act.

In a Q&A, Anderson Collection Director Jason Linetzky looks back at the first five years and anticipates what is to come.

How people interpret musical notes depends on the types of music they have listened to, researchers find. The researchers found to "match a note to the same note in a different octave, is not really all that natural. It's a skill we got from being surrounded by music in which the octave is an important element."

[Music: "Contrarian” by Blue Dot Sessions] Anne Brice: This is "Berkeley Talks,” a Berkeley News  podcast that features lectures and conversations that happen at UC Berkeley.

(Summer Series): Mathieu Clavel, a master's student in the College of Humanities (CDH) Digital Humanities Institute, is bringing musical heritage from Afghanistan to life using tools from data science and virtual reality.

Kate MacKay: Hello, welcome. I'm Kate MacKay, associate film curator here at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).

Research into the study of contemporary operatic adaptation of Shakespeare reveals a renewed and growing interest by composers and librettists in Shakespeare as a source for many new operatic works.

[Music: "Silver Lanyard” by Blue Dot Sessions] Anne Brice: This is Berkeley Talks, a  Berkeley News  podcast that features full-length lectures and conversations that happen at UC Berkeley.

Experts in synaesthesia and people with the condition themselves will be coming to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition from 1-7 July.

Critically acclaimed musician and songwriter Jamie Cullum, led the world's first 5G music lesson from his piano at the two thousand year-old Roman Amphitheatre in London yesterday [Tuesday 25 June],

By turning molecular structures into sounds, researchers gain insight into protein structures and create new variations.

The Carnegie Library's newest tour guide fits into the palm of your hand. Carnegie's Monocle, an app created by Carnegie Mellon University students, leads library visitors through an augmented reality-driven scavenger hunt that highlights sights and sounds from Pittsburgh's history.