Oberlin

A Lone Man and His Guitar
by Monica Hunter-Hart
Most music these days lacks courage. Songwriters labor to cover up genuine, simple emotions with stimulating poetry, all as a...
››› December 21, 2014

REBEL in Kulas Recital Hall, Oberlin (November 23)
by Jeremy Reynolds
With six sonatas from the baroque era on the program, all titled Sonata, one might have expected the music to...
››› December 21, 2014

La Bohème DVD
by Elissa Pfaender
From the stage, to the recording studio, and finally to the big screen, La Bohème has now been brought to...
››› December 21, 2014

Oberlin Musical Union, College Choir, and Arts & Sciences Orchestra (December 7)
by Monica Hunter-Hart
The enormity of tragedy cannot be overstated. Tragedy is not melancholy, the passing glumness you experience over a lonely day....
››› December 21, 2014

REBEL in Kulas Recital Hall (November 23)
by Candy Chang
Named after the eclectic French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel, REBEL (Jörg-Michael Schwarz and Karen Marie Marmer, violins, John Moran, cello,...
››› December 21, 2014

Rachel Stanton has sights set on career in arts administration
by Elissa Pfaender
"Seriously, though, how many days until Winter Term again?" laughed Rachel Stanton while taking off her thick, winter coat and...
››› December 21, 2014

Breaking news: Oberlin student wins Rubin Prize
by Daniel Hathaway
It was announced within the hour from San Francisco that Zoé Madonna, a fourth-year Oberlin student majoring in East...
››› November 10, 2014

Rubin Institute 2014: Key notes from San Francisco -- a continuing series
by Daniel Hathaway
On Wednesday, November 5 in San Francisco, four Oberlin students joined colleagues from four other conservatories and universities for the...
››› November 6, 2014

Messiaen: Harawi -- Jacob Greenberg & Tony Arnold
by Daniel Hautzinger
Olivier Messiaen is unique in music history. He is perhaps the most intensely religious composer since J.S. Bach, despite living...
››› March 31, 2014

Thoughts on Oberlin's Performance Spaces & An Institutional Rift
by Aaron Wolff
Oberlin has seven official music halls as of fall 2013. The whole campus is a grab bag of architecture, ranging...
››› March 31, 2014

Cellist Zuill Bailey & pianist Allie Su (January 29)
by Daniel Hautzinger
When you perform as often "as humanly possible," which Darrett Adkins described cellist Zuill Bailey as doing in his introduction...
››› February 14, 2014

Oberlin String Quartet Intensive and Festival: January, 2014
by Daniel Hautzinger
Rehearsing five hours a day for a month in a small room with the same three people, learning an...
››› February 14, 2014

CD Review: Tout un monde lointain... from Dutilleux: Correspondances
by Daniel Hautzinger
Charles Baudelaire, the 19th century French poet, identified two halves to art in his essay, "The Painter of Modern Life":...
››› December 5, 2013

Artist Profile: Philip Highfill
by Daniel Hautzinger
Dodging thrown chairs, scrambling through opera scores with no conductor, accompanying "nightmare" tuba sonatas as a graduate student, and often...
››› December 5, 2013

On Practicing
by Daniel Nitsch
Behind the scenes of every great musician exists countless hours of practicing. Malcolm Gladwell hypothesized that it takes 10,000 hours...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel
by Daniel Nitsch
A row of children, one of whom held in her outstretched hand a witch's decapitated head, was the scene to...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces (November 5)
by Daniel Hautzinger
How many sounds can a small ensemble produce? If the composer is Ravel and the performers are as attuned to...
››› December 5, 2013

Artist Profile: Joe Hauer
by Daniel Nitsch
Each fall Oberlin Conservatory brings a panel of seasoned musical experts to judge the Senior Concerto Competition. An event open...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces
by Daniel Nitsch
Kicking off the 2013-14 Oberlin Artist Recital Series, the Jupiter String Quartet joined Oberlin faculty and alumni to explore "Intimate...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel (November 8)
by Daniel Hautzinger
The Grimm fairy tales in their original form are balanced between wondrous magic and harsh realism, children's delights and gruesome...
››› December 5, 2013

Concert Review: eighth blackbird and Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble
by Daniel Nitsch
Led by conductor Tim Weiss and joined by three-time Grammy-award winning sextet eighth blackbird, Oberlin Conservatory's Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME)...
››› December 5, 2013

Artist Profile: Theo Chandler
by Jarrett Hoffman
Many students at Oberlin are double majors, but only a handful of them straddle the related but quite different worlds...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel (November 8)
by Aaron Wolff
The idea for the opera Hansel und Gretel was proposed to Humperdinck by his sister, who approached him about writing...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel
by Jarrett Hoffman
Children cutting off a dead witch's head? Holding out their fists to the audience as their parents kneel in prayer,...
››› December 5, 2013

CD Review: Bach's Layered Secrets
by Aaron Wolff
When we listen to the Baroque mastery of J.S. Bach, we tend to feel a sense of humility, or even...
››› December 5, 2013

What Classical Concerts Can Learn from Rock Shows
by Jarrett Hoffman
My Dearest Friend The Classical Music Concert, I wanted to apologize for ditching you lately. I've been spending some time...
››› December 5, 2013

CD Review: BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG2
by Aaron Wolff
Band names can be so wild these days: take dance-punk group !!!, heavy metal band Sun-0))), or indie rockers Why?....
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces
by Jarrett Hoffman
If you wanted to hear some Ravel--or simply some great music in Oberlin--Finney Chapel was the place to be on...
››› December 5, 2013

CD Review: eighth blackbird and the Music of Frederic Rzewski
by Larry Dunn
eighth blackbird, the Chicago-based Pierrot sextet, is arguably the best-known and most popular contemporary music ensemble in the land. They...
››› December 5, 2013

CD Review: Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project by Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd
by Larry Dunn
Composer/pianist Vijay Iyer and spoken-word poet Mike Ladd have made another stirring and provocative cultural statement with the recent release...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces (November 5)
by Aaron Wolff
There was a point in Ravel's Introduction et Allegro at Oberlin's "Ravel: Intimate Masterpieces" concert Tuesday night when harpist Yolanda...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Opera Review: Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel
by Larry Dunn
Perhaps it's something in the water (it does taste bit odd) or maybe it's a witches spell? How else could...
››› December 5, 2013

Oberlin Artist Recital Series Review: Ravel--Intimate Masterpieces
by Larry Dunn
An impassioned performance of Maurice Ravel's Chansons Madécasses was the highlight of an Oberlin College concert that was otherwise rather...
››› December 5, 2013

Be Kind to Contemporary Music
by Daniel Hautzinger
The New York City chapter of the American Federation of Musicians recently sent out a questionnaire to its members that...
››› December 5, 2013