Arts & Humanities
- Austin Okigbo, an associate professor of ethnomusicology, studies South African music created during epidemics. According to Okigbo, certain themes reverberate through periods of widespread illness.
- David Korevaar, professor of piano at CU Boulderâs College of Music, uploaded videos of himself performing all 32 of Beethovenâs sonatas on his YouTube channel in just 60 days.Â
- With the Colorado Shakespeare Festival season and camps postponed, staff members have been busy adapting their community resources to a virtual format.
- Silent films werenât actually silent. Now, students can study the music of this once prominent corner of American pop culture.
- As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches and airwaves begin to ïŹll with stories of distant battles won and the brave men who fought them, Kathleen M. Ryan, a documentary ïŹlmmaker and associate professor of journalism, is focused on the veteran women who helped make those victories possible.
- The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is releasing the lineup for its 2020 season, including larger than life remixes of classics, playing June 5 to Aug. 9.
- Student-athletes arenât the only ones on campus who can be felled by injury. CU Boulderâs College of Music is leading the charge to treat andâmore importantlyâto prevent repetitive injuries to musicians.
- The faculty director of CU Boulder's Center of the American West will be in New York Oct. 13 speaking as part of the festival's 20th anniversary event, discussing the legacy of President Donald Trump.
- The CU Japanese and Japanese American Community History Project will build out archival records of Japanese and Japanese Americans on campus throughout university history.
- The inaugural production of the College of Musicâs new Musical Theatre program is a few weeks away, setting the stage for what will be a very different kind of academic area at the century-old institution.