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The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern


LTE: An Open Letter from 186 Faculty — Stand up to pressure and reject calls for force

LTE: An Open Letter from 186 Faculty — Stand up to pressure and reject calls for force

May 2, 2024

To Chairman Barris, the Life Trustees, and the Charter Trustees of Northwestern University: We, the undersigned NU faculty of different backgrounds and political viewpoints, come together to salute...

LTE: An Open Letter from 158 Faculty — Let’s continue productive conversations

LTE: An Open Letter from 158 Faculty — Let’s continue productive conversations

April 28, 2024

To Mr. Peter Barris, chair, and other lifetime members of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees, We, the undersigned tenured Northwestern faculty of different backgrounds and political viewpoints,...

Podculture: ‘I can be happy and trans’: Queer students find joy in music

Podculture: ‘I can be happy and trans’: Queer students find joy in music

July 8, 2022

    The Daily spoke with students and faculty about what queer music means to them — from pop divas to indie artists. SOPHIE LEYVA: Any time I'm walking around on campus, I listen...

An illustration of drums, a cello, a clarinet, a trumpet and a violin with the title "Battling the Bienen Barriers" on top.

In Focus: Bienen students share experiences, advocate for increased representation and uplifting of Black composers, musicians

June 7, 2021

As Tahirah Whittington, the cellist of all-Black Chicago string quartet D-Composed, flew through a piece by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, her young audience stared in awe. The performance was part of...

Pianist Marilyn Nonken sits with a piano. Nonken will perform at NU on Friday as part of Bienen School of Music's New Music Conference and Festival.

Celebrated pianist to perform as part of Bienen’s music festival

November 4, 2015

A&E Bienen Prof. Hans Thomalla has called musician Marilyn Nonken one of the best piano performers of contemporary music of the century. Nonken will play Morton Feldman’s 90-minute piece, “Triadic...

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