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From left, seniors Gavin Tremblay and Erin Smith began musicians’ wellness circles to give music students a chance to take care of mental health.

School of Music students organize mental health group

By Mike Ross, Contributing Writer • October 21, 2021
From left, seniors Gavin Tremblay and Erin Smith began musicians’ wellness circles to give music students a chance to take care of mental health.
From left, sophomore Tim Coene and junior Erin Smith use one of the new mental health rooms they helped to create in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.

Music students take initiative to take care of their mental health

By Grace Azaula, Staff Writer • April 7, 2021
From left, sophomore Tim Coene and junior Erin Smith use one of the new mental health rooms they helped to create in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.
Ithaca College senior Karly Masters is learning two new instruments, trombone and French horn in F, this semester. She said that this has been difficult over Zoom because her professors cannot hear her play as much.

Virtual classes fall flat for music students and faculty

By Arleigh Rodgers and Emily Lussier • November 6, 2020
Online classes for Fall 2020 have posed difficulties in teaching and learning for faculty and students in the School of Music.
Sophomore Baily Mack, a music performance and education major through a four-and-a-half-year double major program the college offers, is taking 18.5 credits this semester. She said she has never taken fewer than 17 credits per semester.

Music students struggle with demanding culture and courses

By Ashley Stalnecker, Staff Writer • February 6, 2020
In Spring 2017 at Ithaca College, then-freshman Courtney Webster was taking 13 courses, worth 16 credits, to fulfill her music outside field major.
Marica Zax, chair of Ithaca Area United Jewish Community, introduces the panel which consisted of three guest speakers to share their first and second hand experiences from the Holocaust on Feb. 2.

Speakers share first and second hand stories from Holocaust

By Julie Dannevig, Staff Writer • February 5, 2020
Like many kids, Roald Hoffmann, born to a Polish-Jewish family in Ukraine, had a normal life as a child until the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe. 
Composer Sarah Hennies focuses on psychoacoustics in her music. Psychoacoustics is how sound behaves in a space. Hennies will be delivering a lecture called “A Persistent Obsession with Identity” at 5 p.m. Jan. 31 in the Iger Lecture Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.

Identity inspires work of experimental composer

By Arleigh Rodgers • January 29, 2020

As a professional composer, Sarah Hennies’ life and house revolve around music. Hennies attempts to usher her two troublemaking dogs, Twig and Harriet, around a shelf of musical records and a black cello...

When looking to fill vacant positions, it is necessary that the administration and other higher-level employees at the college evaluates the wider impact of its searches on student and campus life and adjusts its processes accordingly.

Editorial: Transparency is a crucial part of search processes

November 14, 2019
When looking to fill vacant positions, it is necessary that the administration at the college evaluates the wider impact of its searches.
From left, Traci Hughes and Carlos Velez, class of 85, flip through old photo albums Oct. 12 at the Higher Education Opportunity Programs 50th Anniversary celebration in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.

HEOP celebrates 50 years at Ithaca College

By Sydney Keller, Staff Writer • October 23, 2019
The Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) — a program that aims to increase college accessibility — is celebrating 50 years at Ithaca College.
Elizabeth Marvin, a neuromusicologist, spoke about two of her studies that combined music and neuroscience at the Ithaca College Music Forum Sept. 14.

Forum focuses on link between music and the brain

By Rachel Heller, Contributing Writer • September 16, 2018
A neuromusicologist, discussed the opportunities she has had to change lives through the relationship between music, the brain and language at an Ithaca College Music Forum.
Matthew Recio 13 worked with the Ithaca College Campus Choral Ensemble to rehearse his piece How to Survive Vesuvius for its performance April 24.

Alum returns to create a connection with chorus ensemble

By Antonio Ferme, Staff Writer • April 25, 2018
“It’s a definite source of pride that this piece, which has already won a ton of awards, is being worked on at home,” conductor Susan Avery said.
Freshmen Dhruv Iyengar and Katie Nevils rehearse a scene from Kenneth Lonergan’s play “This is Our Youth.” IC Second Stage, a student-run theatre group, is staging the production, which tells the story of three teenagers entering adulthood during the Reagan era.

Student-run production explores coming of age in the ’80s

By Emily Lussier, Contributing Writer • March 28, 2018
The play is a coming-of-age story about three privileged teenagers — Warren, Dennis and Jessica — who are living in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Graduate student Aaron Burgess led the campus band during its night practice. The band has allowed faculty and staff to join students in the band this semester.

Campus band makes key changes to ensemble

By Aidan Lentz, Staff Writer • February 14, 2018
The Ithaca College Campus Band is a performance band that doubles as a one-credit class and is open to all students, faculty and staff on campus.
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