Music

Metal sculptures with lettering

Fall into the arts

An active time of year for the arts community, the University’s fall arts and culture offerings range from a sculpture exhibit from Jaume Plensa, at Arthur Ross Gallery, to a viewing garden along the Rail Park.

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Three people sitting on high stools on a stage surrounded by windows, two playing guitars and one speaking or singing into a microphone.

Woodstock at 50

During three days of Woodstock in August of 1969, Anthony DeCurtis of the School of Arts and Sciences was 18, growing up in New York City and obsessed with the music that would form the foundation of his writing and teaching.

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Student standing on steps of the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

Stage presence

Senior music major Leo Sarbanes has become a leading voice on the little-known opera “The Love for Three Oranges” during his summer internship with Opera Philadelphia.

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Rosanne Cash speaking at microphone at table with professor Al Filreis looking at her and smiling.

A life of writing and song

Rosanne Cash, a Kelly Writers House Fellow, was on campus for a course taught by English Professor Al Filreis that focuses on three eminent writers each spring semester.  

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Group of students and professor gathered at monument with mountain in back.

Seeing, hearing, and encountering post-apartheid South Africa

A Penn Global Seminar course taught by Carol Muller took the 16 undergraduates to South Africa to explore that nation's history and post-apartheid present day through music and culture. The students demonstrated the impact of the journey through final projects including a painting, a written paper, a poem, a film, a photo essay, a musical score—even a set of political cartoons.

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In the News


NBC News

Lost Chopin waltz discovered in New York museum after almost 200 years

Jeffrey Kallberg of the School of Arts & Sciences helped authenticate the score of a newly uncovered waltz by Romantic era composer Frédéric Chopin.

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ARTnews

Previously unknown Chopin waltz identified at New York’s Morgan Library

Jeffrey Kallberg of the School of Arts & Sciences helped authenticate the score for a newly uncovered waltz by Romantic era composer Frédéric Chopin.

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The New York Times

Hear a Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years

Jeffrey Kallberg of the School of Arts & Sciences helped authenticate the score for a newly uncovered waltz by Romantic era composer Frédéric Chopin.

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Broadway World

Musicians On Call raises over $340,000 during 25th anniversary celebration in NYC

Sue Berkowitz was honored for visiting almost 6,000 people at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as a volunteer for Musicians On Call.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music

Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.

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Philadelphia Tribune

Preparing the archives: Sun Ra comes to Kislak Center

Samantha Hill of Penn Libraries discusses the recent acquisition of two collections of archival materials by Sun Ra, a prolific jazz musician and forefather to the Afrofuturist movement.

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