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A recent $1.77 million legacy gift supporting the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Performing Arts Center is building on the rich history of the University's theatre, dance and music programs.

A $1.77 million planned gift supports both immediate upgrades and long-term excellence at the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Performing Arts Center in Garden City, New York.

Under Maestro Kent Tritle, the new work brings a musical form used by Bach and Handel into the 21st century.

Collaboration leads to musical composition that tells a story without words.

Lessons learned from two high school band directors who said no to competition.

Christopher Lyndon-Gee’s new album is his third featuring the music of the exiled 86-year-old composer. 

Sidney M. Boquiren, PhD, crafted his song cycle from verses by students from third grade to high school.

Students put their improvisation skills into play while treating the audience to music under the stars.

Multitalented junior Angelina Saccone performed with the New York State Symphony Orchestra Musicians at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, thanks to adjunct professor and Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Symphony Orchestra director Stefano Miceli.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ faculty explore a century of American immigration through art, music and film.

Just two days before Thanksgiving last fall, The Kelly Clarkson Show announced to the world that The Fairview School Choir from P.S. 14, a Queens, New York, elementary school, had been named the 2022 NBC Star Choir. That meant that a couple of weeks later, the students, dressed in festive red and green, were singing…

University Professor Paul Moravec, DMA, scored a Grammy nomination and thousands of new fans for the oratorio Sanctuary Road, even as performances went virtual during the pandemic. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Tempest Fantasy in 2004.

Omar Grant ’03 always wanted to be in music. Now the co-president of Roc Nation’s record label, he said he never would have gotten there without his business degree from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­.

Music students Dori-Jo Gutierrez and Kevin Lubin turn Walt Whitman's poetry into song for the poet's 200th birthday celebration.

"Opera News" raves about Moravec's opera, which just opened at the Minnesota Opera.