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“The Weir” is a Haunting Play Rooted in Irish Folklore
Irish Theatre of Chicago (ITC) closes its debut season on the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s Presenting Series with "The Weir."... Read MoreIconic composer Philip Glass caps residency with an intimate evening of chamber music
Iconic composer and pianist Philip Glass caps a residency at the University of Notre Dame with a remarkably intimate evening of chamber... Read MoreHitchcock Series Offers Crash Course in Suspense
Alfred Hitchcock, cinema’s “Master of Suspense,” has directed some of film’s most thrilling scenes. This semester, DeBartolo... Read MoreMusic in All Directions: An Examination of Style in Music of Philip Glass
In 1952, Philip Glass left his childhood home in Baltimore for the University of Chicago. A precocious 15-year-old, Glass had passed the... Read MoreFive Reasons to see “100 Years of Leonard Bernstein”
The DeBartolo Performing Art Center proudly welcomes the Czech National Symphony Orchestra to the Leighton Concert Hall. The program,... Read MoreCzech National Symphony Orchestra Concert Honors a Legend
For 18 years, John Mauceri, world-renowned conductor, educator, and writer, worked closely with Leonard Bernstein and conducted many of the... Read MoreBernstein as Composer
Few composers capture their time and become the iconic voice of their age. Leonard Bernstein found his "voice" in the early 1940s and... Read MoreAlumnus brings together music performance and theory to examine historical piano improvisation
Music theory and performance are often thought of as separate — you study the structures and history of music, or you master an... Read MorePhilip, Percussion + Perpetulum (Part 2)
By the time the four of us in Third Coast Percussion were studying music in college, the percussion ensemble was a part of nearly every... Read MoreHenrietta Lacks, HPV + a Lifesaving Vaccine
The Browning Cinema recently screened The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The evening stemmed from two particular connections at Notre... Read MorePhilip, Percussion + Perpetulum (Part 1)
Philip Glass came of age as a musician at the same time the percussion ensemble was first emerging in the … Read MoreMet Opera star Isabel Leonard returns to Notre Dame for Bernstein Celebration
If I quote from a piece I wrote in 2012 for Isabel Leonard’s recital at Notre Dame, it is because … Read More