Helen Cronin
RANDY WOOLF
By Helen Cronin
As the last notes of Randall Woolf’s Motor City Requiem faded away, one couldn’t help but admire his clever, effective use of electronics with piano and string quartet. The samples from Motown songs and beats evoked the dynamics of a bustling city, and as they faded away, leaving only a mournful violin melody [...]
INTRIGUING CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
Sometimes you find the most intriguing things in the most unexpected places. Such was the case when I attended the NYU Symphony Orchestra concert on October 19th. Though I went to hear Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony, Julia Wolfe’s Vermeer Room was the piece I remembered. Ms. Wolfe, a professor of composition here at NYU, was inspired by [...]
EMILY EDDEY
Completing the MAP requirements is a stressful process. But completing the MAP requirements while self-producing an album? Just ask Emily Eddey, a Journalism and Music major here at NYU. “My entertainment lawyer would call me and I’d tell him that I’d have to call him back because I had to go take a Spanish [...]
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