Tom Manuel got his first jazz infusion at a family event when he was growing up. “I clearly remember lying on the grass and hearing a deejay play Glenn Miller’s ‘In the Mood,’” recalled the Lake Ronkonkoma, NY...
As the coronavirus pandemic sent higher education into scramble mode, it was hard for Stony Brook University’s Department of Music to keep the beat. That’s because in music, as in comedy, timing is everything. “Music as...
Jay Loomis recorded hours of audio and video in the preserve, and then spent months condensing and combining his footage to produce a three-part musical film.
It’s hard for students to switch gears easily from real time in the classroom to virtual time in the middle of a semester. But for Taylor Ackley ’20, a postdoctoral student in the Department of Music, the coronavirus...
Soros Scholar and Stony Brook grad student Agata Sorotokin knew her calling from the age of five, when she asked her mother to sign her up for piano lessons. “When I was very young my parents took me to a local piano...
If your musical tastes run a little out of the ordinary – or if you’re just in the mood to hear something new – this summer’s Yarn/Wire concerts might well fit the bill. Billed as the “world’s...
Stony Brook Opera will perform the classic tale of the struggle between the demands of love and kingship in Mozart’s ‘The Shepherd King’ on Saturday, April 27, at 8 pm and Sunday, April 28, at 3 pm at Staller Center...