Blair School Of Music

The Blair School of Music has a full schedule of free music events this month. (Vanderbilt) Welcome back to another amazing semester of concerts at the Blair School of Music! We kicked off our Fall 2012 concert season with a capacity crowd for our 150th birthday tribute… Read More

L-r: Blair's Steven Fiske as Claudio, Emily Palmer as Hero, Patrick Waller as Benedick and Evelyn O'Neal Brush as Beatrice in the Nashville Shakespeare Festival's 2012 production of "Much Ado About Nothing." (photo by Jeff Frazier) Steven Fiske, a vocal performance major at Blair… Read More

A Nashville songwriter responsible for No. 1 records by George Strait, Lee Ann Womack and Gary Allan is showing aspiring songwriters the Music Row ropes in a class at Vanderbilt University. Read More

(image courtesy of Blair School of Music) Blair School of Music kicks off its pre-college and adult series of classes, private lessons and ensembles on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Private lessons are offered in all orchestral and many folk instruments. Kindermusik classes for ages 18 months to 6 years… Read More

(Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Summer classes for Blair School of Music’s Kindermusik program begin June 26, and openings are still available in many of the classes. For a complete list of class descriptions and schedules, go here. Note: The 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Zoo Train class is now… Read More

Tom Kimmel and Pierce and Grace Pettis will headline the June 16 Bluebird on the Mountain concert at scenic Dyer Observatory. Read More

Watch video of Melanie Lowe’s talk that explores the aesthetics of the impossible in Joesph Haydn’s most sublime work. In 1797 Haydn completed what was immediately hailed as his greatest work, The Creation.This enormous piece scored for solo singers, chorus, and orchestra opens with nothing short of a musical impossibility—the sound of… Read More

Top scholars from Vanderbilt University’s undergraduate and professional schools are being honored with Founder’s Medals during Commencement on Friday, May 11. Read More

Nine Vanderbilt University students and graduates have been offered scholarships through Fulbright-sponsored programs for research, teaching and study abroad in 2012-13. Read More

Image courtesy of NBC. Chris Mann, a Blair School of Music alumnus, advanced to the finals on the NBC reality show The Voice May 2 after eight contestants were whittled down to four. Mann, a Wichita, Kan., native, put his degree in vocal performance to good… Read More

The Ingram Commons’ first class graduates First-year students and faculty heads of house gathered at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons in August 2008 for their first-ever class photo. The taking of a class photo each year has become an Ingram Commons tradition. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) On a bright spring day… Read More

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast: Sweet Sounds Lead to a Vanderbilt First! Gearing up for Graduation See Which Veteran News Anchor is Coming to Vanderbilt [vucastblurb]  … Read More

Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt (Vanderbilt University) The Blair Nightcap Series concert originally scheduled for Monday, April 23, has been postponed. It will now be performed at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, in the Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. The program… Read More

Watch video of the most recent presentation in the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series – Appalachian Celebration – which took place on April 19. Blair musicians demonstrated southern musical traditions as they explored the roots of one of America’s most popular folk art forms. This program featured the head of Blair… Read More

(iStockphoto) Join musicians from Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music as they explore the roots of one of America’s most popular folk art forms on Thursday, April 19, at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Polk Theater. The program will feature the head of Blair’s fiddle department,… Read More

Blair Big Band plays from the heart Billy Adair conducts the Blair Big Band ensemble. (John Russell/Vanderbilt) In the practice hall at Blair School of Music, a velvety voice is crooning Irving Berlin’s “Let’s Face the Music and Dance.” Jubilant trumpets, a sizzling beat and funky, thumping… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos (Vanderbilt University) The annual Spring Faculty Assembly is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in Langford Auditorium. Opening remarks will be provided by Faculty Senate Chair David Weintraub and Vice Chair Greg Barz. The faculty presentation will be performed… Read More

Blair School of Music senior Ryan Korell (left) has written the original musical "Grounded," which Vanderbilt students will perform at Sarratt Cinema March 30. (image by Mike Todd/Vanderbilt) Once you see the original musical Grounded, you’ll never think the same way about a layover at the airport. On… Read More

This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s weekly newscast highlighting research, experts, students, sports and everything Vanderbilt: How focusing on inner city kids could earn you a free master’s degree Vanderbilt’s ties to a major motion picture Sex for life! [vucastblurb]  … Read More

Jacqueline Schwab (photo courtesy of Jacquelineschwab.com) Drawing on classical, traditional folk and contemporary music roots, pianist Jacqueline Schwab has been heard on a dozen of Ken Burns’ documentaries, including his Emmy and Grammy Award-winning The Civil War. A dance musician of many years, she plays for numerous different types of dance… Read More