by Audrey Ladele *Please note that the 2020 Festival on the Hill has been postponed indefinitely.* The faculty and staff in the UNC Music Department have an unparalleled passion for music and its capabilities as an art form. They deeply … Read more
Originally published in Carolina Performing Arts’ program, CONNECT. My passion for opera and classical music marked me as an outsider in my hometown in Eastern North Carolina. As a first-year at UNC, I was thrilled to finally live in a … Read more
MUSC 296: Special Studies for Undergraduates This course is what you make it! Special Studies is available only to music majors by permission of the director of undergraduate studies, Professor Tonu Kalam. This course is designed to be an intensive … Read more
Rhodes joined the faculty in 1987 and is the first faculty member from the fine arts to be named dean of the College since it took its modern-day name in 1935. Terry Rhodes has been named dean of the College … Read more
MUSC 288: The Orchestra and Its Music Professor Evan Bonds Tuesday/Thursday, 2:00 – 3:15 pm With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. – Gustavo Dudamel MUSC 288 is a study of the symphony orchestra and … Read more
by Parth Upadhyaya As Gerry Bell walked near McCorkle Place on UNC’s campus on a February 2017 evening, he heard a sound come out of Person Hall that stopped him in his tracks. The UNC Department of Music was gearing … Read more
MUSC 286: Hip Hop Diplomacy Professor Mark Katz Tuesday/Thursday, 2:00 – 3:15 pm Focusing on the period following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, this course explores the U.S. government’s use of hip hop as a form of people-to-people diplomacy, the interaction … Read more
by Parth Upadhyaya This year marks the end of an era for jazz studies at the UNC Department of Music. And the Carolina Jazz Festival at the end of February is yet another reminder of that. The 43rd annual Carolina … Read more
MUSC 355: Gender and Sound Associate Professor Andrea Bohlman Tues/Thurs, 9:30 – 10:45 am This course has three themes: listening bodies, sounding bodies, moving bodies. As humans, our experience of the world is shaped by our bodies: the capacities of … Read more
MUSC 269: Music in the Community Professor Evan Feldman Mondays, 2:30-4:00 pm What kind of impact can our work as musicians have on the communities we live and work in? How does music shape our identity? These are just … Read more
