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- For most music students in the 21st century, the idea of silent films seems strangely far-away. One new Boulder class seeks to change that. The class, a DMA seminar titled Scoring Silent Film, explores the history of silent
- The AMRC invites Boulder student musicians, both undergraduate and graduate, to apply for the new bi-annual Alex Craig and Christina Lynn-Craig Living Music Award. This award celebrates the works of late composer Alex Craig, and is set to be granted for the first time this spring.
- Two Boulder PhD students work on the Pueblo "Soundscapes of the People" project alongside AMRC Director Dr. Susan Thomas, Dr. Austin Okigbo and Dr. Xóchitl Chávez from the University of California, Riverside. Both of these students are studying ethnomusicology and have been working on the project since summer 2021.
- The AMRC collections are housed in Rare and Distinctive Collections in Norlin Library. Two graduate students, Johnette Martin and Jessica Quah, work in these collections, helping archivist Jessie de la Cruz organize and inventory them. As of now, the AMRC has 297 collections in the library.
- The American Music Research Center (AMRC) George Lynn Memorial Award celebrates the legacy of former College of Music choral conductor George Lynn, allowing Boulder students to dive into Lynn’s compositional work and pull
- The career of Kedrick Armstrong—graduate orchestral conducting student and AMRC Porter Fellow—is quickly gaining momentum, including conducting the Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Irene Britton Smith’s “Sinfonietta.” Learn
- By Laurie J. SampselDid you know that Colorado has not one, but two state songs? “Where the Columbines Grow” became the first in 1915, while “Rocky Mountain High” was named the second in 2007. Both have been criticized—primarily due to their lyrics—
- The American Music Research Center (AMRC) at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Music is hosting a lecture, “Yoga as White Public Space,” by ethnomusicologist Dr. Rumya Putcha (University of Georgia) on
- By Charles Wofford Between 1900 and 1929, when Sid Grauman ran silent films with live orchestral accompaniment in his Hollywood “movie palaces,” he probably never imagined that the thousands of orchestral
- The AMRC is breaking ground with its innovative Soundscapes of the People project, a comprehensive research effort in collaboration with local community stakeholders to document, preserve and engage with diverse musical and cultural influences in and around Pueblo, Colorado.