Blair School Of Music

Rock critic/biblical scholar Mark Allan Powell will speak on how the Bible is used in popular contemporary Christian songs during a visit to a Vanderbilt University class on The Bible and Music. Read More

"Blair in Africa: Researching and Collecting African Music," featuring a performance by prominent Ugandan musician Centurio Balikoowa, takes place Feb. 12 at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Read More

Butch Baldassari, a Blair School of Music professor who created a cottage industry around his love of mandolin music, died Saturday at a Nashville hospice. He was 56. Read More

Cornelia Heard, professor of music and chair of the strings department of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, has been named the holder of the newly created Valere Blair Potter Chair. The chair is endowed through a gift to the university by the grandchildren of Valere Blair Potter. Read More

Watch video of an Oct. 24 by the Vanderbilt Orchestra. Read More

Watch video of a performance at the Blair School of Music. Read More

Tips to tone up your upper body and hear from some of the first inductees in the Vandy Athletics Hall of Fame! (6:21) Read More

Watch video of members of The Blair Piano Faculty performing in Ingram Hall on March 15, 2008, as part of the Spring Concert Series at Blair School of Music. Read More

Watch video of the April 12 performance of The Pa's Fiddle Project Concert, part of a series of special events in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Vanderbilt University's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. The Pa's Fiddle Project features songs from the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Read More

Watch video of Sankofa, the Blair School of Music's African Performing Ensemble, performing April 13 in Ingram Hall. Read More

Watch video of the Vanderbilt University Orchestra, with Robin Fountain, conductor, and featuring the 2007-08 winners of the Student Concerto Competition. Read More

Watch video of Amy Jarman, soprano; Jonathan Retzlaff, lyric baritone; Gayle Shay, mezzo-soprano; and Melissa Rose, pianist, perform "Singing Back Through Time: American Song from 2008-1900," which opened the Spring 2008 Faculty Concert Series at the Blair School of Music. Read More

Three years ago, Vanderbilt University ethnomusicologist Greg Barz realized that American popular culture was sweeping Africa and could very well threaten centuries-old musical traditions. Read More