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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

Jennifer Higdon teaches at a workshop. The Bienen School of Music awarded Higdon the 2018 Nemmers Prize in Music Composition this month.

Grammy, Pulitzer winner Jennifer Higdon awarded 2018 Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition

April 25, 2018

A&E Jennifer Higdon wrote her first composition as a flute performance major at Bowling Green State University. Her flute teacher assigned her to create a piece for flute and piano, and from then...

Alum Andrew Mason launches new transcription service startup

February 20, 2018

When Andrew Mason founded Groupon, he said the goal was to get people out of their homes and away from their computer screens. “The thing that I always loved about working on Groupon was the idea...

Performers in Northwestern’s “Don Giovanni” rehearse a scene. The production will be set in modern day New York and will incorporate technology and social media.

Joachim Schamberger uses modern technology and social media to modernize Mozart’s Don Giovanni

February 15, 2018

Bienen Prof. Joachim Schamberger has mixed feelings about the use of technology in the modern era. While he reminisces about the days when he could talk to unplugged fellow passengers when riding the...

Opera singer Renée Fleming to speak at commencement

Opera singer Renée Fleming to speak at commencement

February 6, 2018

World-renowned opera singer Renée Fleming will deliver the address at commencement this June. The ceremony will be held on Friday, June 22 at Ryan Field in Evanston, according to a University news...

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra to tour China with the music of Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Mahler

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra to tour China with the music of Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Mahler

January 25, 2018

Since arriving in Northwestern in the fall of 1984, director of orchestral programs Victor Yampolsky said he has watched the Bienen School of Music transform from good to outstanding. In his 34 years,...

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