Greer Music Library

“We’ve got a lot of work to do” 🎶

Why Don’t More American Maestros Lead American Orchestras? Leonard Bernstein blazed a trail for conductors from the United States nearly 70 years ago. But at top American orchestras these days, they’re scarce.

Presenting our Faculty Showcase for the Spring of 2024, Songs Without Words! Our talented music factory will be playing works by world class composers in our own Evans Hall! Come enjoy a night of beautiful music next Friday! 🎶🐪

Use the Wednesday common hour to enjoy a holiday-themed meditative experience in the chapel, accompanied by our own music ensembles! Thank you to the Office of Religious and Spiritual Programs for co-sponsoring this event! 🐪🎶

Our Choir and Orchestra will be having their joint concert this Saturday, December 2nd in Harkness Chapel! Come unwind after your week back to campus! 🐪🎶

The Charles Shackford Memorial Student Composers Concert is coming up quick! Don’t miss this opportunity to see what music students at Conn are making! 🎶🐪

Meet Connecticut College Music Department's STELLAR student workers! We are so grateful to have not one… not two… not three… but FOUR student assistants this year! If you see them around Cummings, say hello! 🎶🐪

Our annual faculty showcase is here! Featuring wonderful performances by our lovely Conn faculty (and a piece by a faculty member as well!) Join us on Friday, September 29th at 7pm to experience the magic! 🪄🧙🦄🐰🧚 Connecticut College Music Department

Our annual faculty showcase is here! Featuring wonderful performances by our lovely Conn faculty (and a piece by a faculty member as well!) Join us on Friday, September 29th at 7pm to experience the magic! 🪄🧙🦄🐰🧚

Introducing one of our very seasoned professors at Conn, Professor Dale Wilson!

He specializes in Ethnomusicology and has been teaching at the college since 2004. classes you can find him teaching are Music Culture and Experience, Music of the World, Chinese Music and Theater, The Language of Jazz, and Introduction to Music Theory at the Keyboard.

He is also a composer! His original compositions have been performed at Brooklyn’s ShapeShifter Lab, The Blue Note Jazz Club (NY), The Garage (NY), Smalls Jazz Club (NY), Merkin Hall (NY), International Association of Jazz Educator's (IAJE) annual conference, American Bandmasters Association (ABA) annual conference, International Double Reed Society (IDRS) annual conference, and other venues in the United States and Europe. He draws inspiration from Jazz and East Asian music, as he grew up in Hong Kong!

A new composition he wrote Entitled “Trio” for violin, cello, and piano will be performed next week at the Department of Music Faculty Showcase Concert on February 17. He will perform the piece with Connecticut College professors Katie Kennedy (cello), and Jaroslaw Lis (violin), with Dale on piano.

We are so glad to have you on our team, Dale! read more about him on our website conncoll.edu, and see his new piece performed a week from today! 🐪 🎶

Tune in to WCNI 90.9 FM today at 3pm for a special program brought to you by the students in Music Professor Dale Wilson's first year seminar "Lush Life: A Jazz Story."

The students curated a playlist of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn songs in the Greer Music Library and each selection is introduced by the student who chose it.

You can tune your local radio to 90.9 FM or stream the broadcast live from the WCNI website: https://wcniradio.org/

You can also stream live from iHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/live/wcni-ground-zero-radio-5249/

A recording of the broadcast will be available for two weeks afterwards on the WCNI archive: https://wcniradio.org/listen/

Photo source: http://digital.library.temple.edu/.../p15037coll17/id/409

Our collaboration with WCNI 90.9 FM and Connecticut College Music Department makes an elegant appearance in the August NEMLA newsletter: http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/2022/08/