music
BTN LiveBIG: Minnesota student makes music to prisoners' ears
BTN LiveBIG: Minnesota student makes music to prisoners' ears
Behind the walls of the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee, Minn., a woman is crying. It?s one of the first rehearsals of a new choir at the prison called Voices of Hope, and what?s going on in a small room has hit a major emotional chord. ?This woman joined us tonight and cried the entire time,? explained […]
BTN LiveBIG: Rutgers conservatory introduces high schoolers to the joys, trials of musical theater
BTN LiveBIG: Rutgers conservatory introduces high schoolers to the joys, trials of musical theater
Rutgers University?s New Brunswick campus is about an hour?s drive from the bright lights of Broadway. And though it?s not quite ?The Great White Way,? it?s a place where some of musical theater?s stars of tomorrow can get an early glimpse of the determination and grit behind the glitter and glamour. Alistair Williams, director of […]
BTN LiveBIG: Photos show Purdue is full of surprises
BTN LiveBIG: Photos show Purdue is full of surprises
[btn-post-package]Purdue has a well-deserved reputation as one of the top engineering, technology and science universities in the United States. It?s widely recognized in areas ranging from space exploration to supercomputers. But that doesn?t mean the school lacks an artistic side. As a series of photos from the previous year shows, there?s plenty of creativity on […]
BTN LiveBIG: Illinois puts heart and soul into musical computers
BTN LiveBIG: Illinois puts heart and soul into musical computers
Duke. Miles. Thelonious. Perhaps no other genre of music is as strongly associated with masters of improvisation as jazz. And improvisation is a decidedly human quality. A computer might be able to write, say, a polished pop music hit, but it could never construct a soulful bebop jazz masterpiece, right? Well, as it happens, a […]
BTN LiveBIG: Indiana's Violin Shop isn't just fiddling around with instruments
BTN LiveBIG: Indiana's Violin Shop isn't just fiddling around with instruments
When it comes to violins and other stringed instruments, the artistry isn?t just in the way they?re played. It?s also in how they?re made. Both of those aspects of the violin captured Thomas Sparks as a boy growing up in northern New Jersey. There was something about the instrument?s sound and shape that immediately appealed […]
BTN LiveBIG: PSU music students will see you in C-U-B-A
BTN LiveBIG: PSU music students will see you in C-U-B-A
South Florida and Cuba are separated by about 90 miles of water and 1,000 miles of culture. Penn State professor and professional trombone player Mark Lusk found that to be the case when he brought a group from the United States to the island nation for the first time in 2014. ?It feels like you?re […]
