by Anna Williams — Tuesday, my entire social media was consumed by one topic: Live Nation’s When We Were Young Festival. The graphic for the festival looks like something I saw on tumblr in 2012 that was photoshopped by a fan as a “dream festival.” But this is….real? This graphic dropped on social media…

by Anna Williams — Last week I went to see Hamilton. Not only was it my first time being back in a theatre since the pandemic began, but it was also my first time seeing a touring Broadway show. All of my previous experiences seeing shows has been either community theatre or college. …

By Chloe Smith — Today, September 15, 2021, marks 58 years since white supremacists bombed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four KKK members, opposing school integration in the city of Birmingham, bombed the church because they saw it as a stronghold of Civil Rights Movement organization and activism. Four little girls died…

By Anna Williams — I am writing this in snippets in between my classes this week. It is a strange feeling sitting in a classroom once again, but I am thrilled to be here and to be learning in person with my peers. …

By Anna Williams — Yesterday in class, my professor quoted Leo Treitler, who wrote in Musicology and Difference that “music history is, among other things, a discourse of myth.” Now of course this statement can be applied to more than just music history. …

By Chloe Smith — During the Civil Rights Movement, music was a powerful means of protest. Activists sang as they marched, and Black religious music was commonplace at mass meetings, where congregations organized their next movements and emboldened their spirits. In a description of a mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery…

By Chloe Smith — On July 16, 2021, Netflix added the films from the Twilight franchise to its library. In the week since, the five films have dominated Netflix’s Top 10 movies ranking. It feels like I can’t scroll more than 10 videos on my TikTok For You Page without encountering a post inspired…

By Chloe Smith — Today’s album review is the first in our Flashback Friday series, where we pull out an older album to review instead of a new release. This past Monday, July 19, 2021, marked the two year anniversary of the release of Jacob Collier’s Djesse Volume 2. …

By Anna Williams — Imagine you are attending a symphony concert. You arrive early, take your seat, and look through the program while waiting for the music to begin. The program is for the entire season and lists several different concert programs within it. These concerts feature the works of composers such as Brahms…