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As part of a May trip emphasizing cultural exchange, �鶹�ƽ��'s Wind Ensemble toured sites and learned about educational opportunities while performing in England and Scotland.

While �鶹�ƽ�� will soon be saying goodbye to Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall in its current condition, the history and legacy of the building will not go unremembered.

�鶹�ƽ�� Associate Professor of biology Shantá D. Hinton, a member of the 50th commemoration committee, had the idea for the song and worked with Director of Choirs James Armstrong to find a composer to create it.

Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall and the Muscarelle Museum of Art at �鶹�ƽ�� will close in May in preparation for renovation work that also includes a new music building in the Arts Quarter.

Continuing to try to make students more aware of refugees in the local community, W&M music Professor Anne Rasmussen and her Middle Eastern Music Ensemble will host a benefit concert April 21 at the Kimball Theatre.

�鶹�ƽ�� continues to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first African-American students in residence with special events, performances, exhibitions and guest speakers.

�鶹�ƽ�� first-year Assistant Professor of music Lauron Kehrer is using her research on American hip-hop music to teach a new class in it.

Jordan Gilliard will receive this year’s Monroe Prize in Civic Leadership at the Charter Day ceremony in Kaplan Arena Feb. 9.

A major book on opera in the United States by Prof. Katherine Preston, the David N. & Margaret C. Bottoms Professor of Music, was released by Oxford University Press in October 2017.

Jonathan Glasser, associate professor of anthropology at �鶹�ƽ��, will be awarded the 2018 Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award at Charter Day on Feb. 9.

The Muscarelle Museum of Art will present "In the Light of Caravaggio: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from Southeastern Museums" as the new semester brings with it a vast array of opportunities for people to enjoy the arts at �鶹�ƽ��.

Sophia Serghi is originally from the Republic of Cyprus and is currently a professor at the College of William and Mary.

Brian Rabinovitz is a neuroscientist who focuses on how the brain processes music. His specialty is memory, what makes us remember songs and what makes some songs impossible to forget.

Christine Niehaus performed the original piano score to the 1927 silent film “Wings”. The performance took place on November 11, 2017 at the American Film Institute Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland.“Wings” was the winner of the first academy award for best picture.

�鶹�ƽ��’s Design Review Board approved initial exterior design concepts for the renovation of Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall and the new music building planned to be built next to it.

The 2017-2018 school year marks the 50th anniversary of the first African-American residential students admitted to �鶹�ƽ��. The university honors them and �鶹�ƽ��’s entire African-American community this year through “Building on the Legacy,” a series of special events, guest speakers and performances.

The new semester brings with it a vast array of opportunities for people to enjoy the arts at �鶹�ƽ��.

Anne Rasmussen, �鶹�ƽ�� professor of music and ethnomusicology, spent the first six months of this year as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar researching Islamic music in Indonesia.

�鶹�ƽ�� librarian Kathleen DeLaurenti has been featured in the book "This is What a Librarian Looks Like."

W&M doctoral candidate James Padilioni's dissertation has taken a startling, and fascinating, detour from where it began.

�鶹�ƽ�� singers started off in their usual formal performance mode. But by the end of their summer trip to South Africa, the W&M Choir and Botetourt Chamber Singers had warmed up to a very different way of experiencing music.

Students experimented with various synthesizers available in the Music Library as part of Christopher DeLaurenti’s summer Introduction to Computer Music and Electroacoustics class.

Next steps are taking shape for the new Arts Quarter at �鶹�ƽ��.

Kevin Kay ’17 couldn’t decide which part of his double major of music and physics he would pursue after graduating from �鶹�ƽ��, until the answer was made perfectly clear.

Former VA Gov. jams with W&M music faculty member, Tripp Johnson, it was the first time it was covered by Rolling Stone Magazine.

The Department of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Lauron Kehrer to the faculty beginning in August 2017.

The W&M Music Department is pleased to announce Dr. Richard Marcus as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands.

The Arts Open House will be held 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm on Friday, April 14, 2017

The students will be performing duets and trios on Songs of Destinations including "Come Fly With Me", "Easy Street", "King of New York", and "Beyond the Sea".

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