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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Two-time Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon at Tuesday’s panel on LGBTQ+ artists. Higdon is openly lesbian and has been with her wife for 37 years.

Award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon speaks to students as part of week-long residency

October 18, 2018

A&E Two-time Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon has been playing music for 40 years — about the same amount of time as she’s been with her wife. She opened up about her art...

Pianist Jeffrey Siegel performs. Siegel’s series “Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel” will begin its 50th season Oct. 4.

Bienen’s ‘Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel’ celebrates 50th anniversary

October 3, 2018

More than 50 years ago, pianist Jeffrey Siegel was at a party in Chicago after a night performing as a soloist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. During the party, a woman approached him and commented...

Friends, professors remember Dominic Davis for perseverance, kindness

Friends, professors remember Dominic Davis for perseverance, kindness

May 24, 2018

In February, Dominic Davis performed for the horn studio program at the Bienen School of Music. Less than a year earlier, he had been diagnosed with cancer for the second time and, despite a surgery that...

In Focus: One year after petition, Bienen students, faculty push to diversify music curriculum

In Focus: One year after petition, Bienen students, faculty push to diversify music curriculum

May 18, 2018

Since she began playing the flute in fifth grade, Julia Clipper remembered only ever playing one piece composed by a woman. That was until this past April, when the Bienen senior, frustrated with the...

Piano duo Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe. The pair will perform the closing concert of Bienen’s third Skyline Piano Artist Series this Saturday.

Piano duo to perform sold-out concert to close Bienen’s Skyline Piano Artist Series

May 9, 2018

A&E The only thing better than one world-famous pianist, is two world-famous pianists — who also happen to be best friends. Enter Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe, a piano duo that aims to...

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