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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


Madison Leonard performs at the Grand Finals concert in New York City. The Bienen alumna was named one of five winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions on April 29.

Bienen alumna wins prestigious Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

May 9, 2018

A&E Bienen alumna Madison Leonard is living proof that the third time really is the charm. On April 29, Leonard (Bienen ’16) was named one of five winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council...

The Northwestern Medical Orchestra performs at its inaugural concert in the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab on May 1. The orchestra features everyone from Feinberg students and postdocs to faculty, staff and local alumni.

First-year Feinberg students launch Northwestern Medical Orchestra as downtown instrumental music outlet

May 2, 2018

Even before arriving on campus, first-year medical students Bettina Cheung and Michael Wang noticed the Feinberg School of Medicine didn’t have its own “instrumental music scene” — and were determined...

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 19, 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...

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