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Bass Morris Robinson (CFA’01) says he’s happy to be performing live again after a year and a half singing mainly on Zoom. Photo by Lawrence Brownlee
Music

Opera Singer Morris Robinson (CFA’01) on Working with Acclaimed Conductor Gustavo Dudamel

January 28, 2022
Sharmetha Ramanan sits in the sunlight in a white top and jeans
Music

Alum Shaya Nominated for Boston Music Award for Best R&B Artist

December 2, 2021
Black and white photo of Louis Armstrong, center, joins in his own joke over an old jazz story with trumpeter Bobby Hackett and Newport Jazz Festival impresario George Wein, at left, at Newport, Rhode Island on July 10, 1970. Hackett holds a trumpet, Armstrong is mid-laugh, and all the men smile.
Obituaries

BU Alum George Wein, Founder of Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, Dies at 95

September 14, 2021
Photo of The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet. A group of 7 men in tuxedos play, the NYC skyline is seen through a window behind them.
Arts & Culture

CFA Alums in the Arts Reflect on How the Pandemic Affected Their Work

July 28, 2021
Black and white photo of Susan Ann Sulley of The Human League performing at Spit on Lansdowne Street in Boston. She stands at the mic with bright lights behind her but she’s only seen in silhouette.
Creatives

Photographer Michael Grecco (COM’81) Caught ’70s Punk and New Wave at Its Crest

March 26, 2021
Composite image, photo of Peter Guralnick with glasses on sitting in a teal rocking chair on a porch, next to the book cover for “Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music & Writing” with a photo of Bob Dylan and a man in a cowboy hate that looks at an acoustic electric guitar.
Arts & Culture

Peter Guralnick (CAS’67, GRS’68) Says Looking to Get Lost is as Close to a Memoir as He’ll Ever Write

March 26, 2021
Album cover for "Portraits, Self-Portraits and Songs" a new CD reissue. A black and white photo of Virgil Thompson is on the right.
Music

Anthony Tommasini (CFA’82) “Posed” for Classical Music Composer Virgil Thomson, Then Played His Work

March 26, 2021
Portrait of Erika B. Hess (’09), host of the podcast I Like Your Work, standing with a microphone between her fingers against a wall. A deep blue shadow silhouette is seen behind her.
Arts & Culture

On the Art of Storytelling

August 12, 2020
Chad William Kidd (’05,’05) (left), directs the Seminary Singers in Marsh Chapel.
Art at STH

Building an Artistic Legacy

July 16, 2020
A portrait photo of Valerie Coleman with her flute
Music

CFA Alum Named Classical Woman of the Year

July 7, 2020
A portrait photo of John Finbury (CAS’77) sitting at his piano.
Music

He’s an Unlikely Grammy Honoree. Again.

January 24, 2020
David Bowie performs on stage at the Milton Keynes Bowl as part of the Serious Moonlight tour on July 02, 1983.
books

Underrated Bowie

July 9, 2019

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