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A picture of a Zoom screen with speakers on the right side and a slide deck on the left side. The slide, with a red banner at the top reading “Contemporary Composers,” lists names of Black art song composers.

Bienen event highlights importance of studying and performing Black art songs

Laya Neelakandan and Diego Ramos-Bechara
April 7, 2021
Top administrators have been willing to share details about their handling of the budget deficit, yet deans and department leaders have shown greater reluctance to divulge information.

Budget cuts are made at the bottom, but the message is crafted up top

Alan Perez, Campus Editor
November 30, 2018
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

Janea Wilson, Reporter
October 18, 2018
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

Charlotte Walsh, Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor
April 25, 2018
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

Madeleine Fernando, Digital Managing Editor
January 25, 2018
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