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Fall session of Blair School’s Kindermusik begins Sept. 6
Sep. 5, 2016—The Blair School of Music's nationally acclaimed Kindermusik program is designed for children from infancy to 6 years of age and their caregivers. Participants enjoy singing, listening, dancing, interacting socially and playing simple instruments.
Science of Song symposium set for Sept. 12 at Vanderbilt
Aug. 23, 2016—Blair School of Music will host a one-day symposium Sept. 12 called "The Science of Song."
Listen: Astronomy, jazz and politics among VU Osher fall classes
Aug. 19, 2016—Renowned Vanderbilt professors and other experts will teach classes this fall on the 2016 elections, astronomy, prisons and more for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt.
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Aug. 5, 2009—Keegan Fellows Embark on Year of Travel New graduates Kathryn Moreadith and Rob Whiting are spending a year traveling the world as recipients of the university’s Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship. Moreadith graduated in May from the Blair School of Music with majors in composition/theory and East Asian studies and minors in piano performance and...
Music: Into a Soul-Folk Groove
Aug. 5, 2009—When singer-songwriter Denitia Odigie walked on stage at the POP Montreal International Music Festival, strummed her Ibanez acoustic guitar and began to sing, she became an international favorite, earning the title “Find of the Fest.” The gifted Odigie, BA’04, has impressed a growing number of fans and critics, inspiring one critic to exclaim, “If you...
Music: Soothing Sounds, Good Medicine
Aug. 5, 2009—Music has been shown to offer distraction from pain for the seriously ill, as well as reduce stress and increase social interaction for patients and their families. Music in the Clinic (M.I.C.) is a volunteer program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center that connects patients with this healing power of music. At the same time, it connects...
The Second Stringers
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Total Immersion
Aug. 5, 2009—Austin Langley is one busy young woman. The rising junior, who calls Burlington, N.C., home, is a musical arts major at the Blair School of Music with a concentration in saxophone. She is a member of the Vanderbilt women’s swimming team. Oh, and she just added a pre-veterinary medicine track to her studies, which means...
This Is Your Brain on Bach
Mar. 16, 2009—Musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and use both the left and right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person. Previous studies of creativity have focused on divergent thinking—the ability...
Music: Getting Real
Mar. 16, 2009—In show business, the saying goes, it’s not what you know but whom you know. In the case of Georgia Stitt, award-winning composer and vocal coach on America’s Got Talent, it’s both. A Tennessee native, Stitt received her bachelor’s degree in music theory and composition from the Blair School of Music in 1994 and her...
American Eclectic
Oct. 31, 2008—Toward the end of high school in Margate, Fla., a small strip of suburbia just north of Fort Lauderdale, Daniel Bernard Roumain managed to land two internships that prefigured his future musical career crossbreeding hip-hop and classical music. For a couple of summers in the late 1980s, he worked in the ticket office of the...
Music: Street Smarts
Oct. 30, 2008—Gayle Shay joined the Blair School of Music faculty in 1998 with a directive from Dean Mark Wait to make opera an important part of the vocal program. In her role as associate professor of voice and director of the Vanderbilt Opera Theatre, Shay has helped to do just that. Open by audition to all...