Remembrance, resilience + forging our future
In the first Dean's Downbeat of 2022, John Davis—reporting from the Colorado Music Educators Association’s Clinic/Conference in Colorado Springs—reflects on the past month, from its losses to its wins and the many positive developments underway at our College of Music. “Even as we bear witness to loss and unknowable challenges with compassion and care, I see us rebounding with resilience again and again—undeterred in our shared quest for excellence, dogged in our pursuit to inform and influence what it means to be a successful, fulfilled creative artist in an increasingly diverse and interdisciplinary musical landscape,” he says.
Browse previous editions of the Dean's Downbeat,
a monthly message from Dean John Davis.
22 for ’22: Composers and performers to watch this year (Jan. 22, 2022, The Washington Post)
Congratulations to first-year master's student (orchestral conducting) Kedrick Armstrong for landing on The Post's 2022 watch list! This year’s selection of artists "represents a diverse variety of composers, performers and artists hitting their stride with work that resonates with the right now."
Music played over old silent films will be available to everyone after CU digitizes it (Dec. 8, 2021, 9News)
With a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, our American Research Center is collaborating with CU Libraries and the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive to create and make available to the public a comprehensive digital archive of the Grauman Theatre Scores Collection ... including some 3,854 silent film orchestral scores and an additional 192,700 preservation images.
Resilience Realized (Nov. 5, 2021, Coloradan)
Raul Dominguez (DMus ’22), a conductor and instructor, knew the pandemic was going to be especially difficult for those in music. In May 2020, he secured a grant from CU’s Entrepreneur Center for Music to begin the Choral Conductors Colloquium, a virtual five-lecture series featuring prominent choral conductors.
