Events
J.I.D to Perform at Ithaca College
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The J. Cole prodigy is set to take the stage this Saturday at Ithaca College.
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Cornell-Led Research Team Links Music Choice to Weather, Region, Gender and Age
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What are you listening to as you trek through the snowy campus in this weather? With Ithaca facing record-setting low temperatures, it’s likely that you are not rocking some rock n’ roll.
Arts & Entertainment
The Sun’s Top 10 Albums of 2018
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Room 25 — Noname
The fact that Noname’s Room 25 is our album of the year despite its relative lack of promotion is truly a testament to the quality of the album. Every track wows on its own but gets even better within the context of the album. Its live instrumentation and Noname’s poetic vocals give Room 25 the feeling of it being just you and her, something no other album is able to achieve to the same degree. All in all it’s the most cohesive and surprising album of 2018 and is deservedly our number one. —Daniel Moran
Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe
Janelle Monáe’s latest release accompanied an “Emotion Picture” of the same name — a gorgeous combination of music video and narrative film loaded with social commentary.
cornell chimes
Cornell Undergraduates Compose Music for the Chimes
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“It is an honor to be able to have a piece played for the whole campus, but I think it more feels like I’m deeply connected to the larger musical culture on campus,” Drake Eshleman ’20 told The Sun.
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Chimes Blast Professor’s Whale Song Duet Across Cornell Campus
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If you were one of the students drawn to Ho Plaza by the mysterious sounds generated from atop of McGraw Tower on Sunday, rest assured that our beloved chime bells are not malfunctioning. Instead, it was the rehearsal for a chimes and whale song duet.
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Beyoncé’s Father and Music Industry Leader Mathew Knowles to Speak at Cornell Panel
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“His impact as a professional in corporate America and on the music industry are well known,” Prof. Riché Richardson, African American literature, told The Sun.
Arts & Entertainment
Hold On to Your Dentures: Roomful of Teeth at Bailey Hall
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The small a cappella ensemble brought their big guns right away, with each member speaking in rhythm, creating a wall of chatter that in an instant, gave way to raucous polyphonic vocals. After a few iterations, rhythmic spoken word became interspersed with small vocal phrases. The piece was chugging along and it was clear that Roomful of Teeth had a very important message to share with the audience that evening. Roomful of Teeth, the Grammy-winning vocal octet, visited Bailey Hall on Friday night to kick off the Cornell Concert Series 2018-2019 season. The group was founded in 2009 with a goal to explore the expressive potential of the human voice.
ithaca reggae fest
Ithaca Fest Celebrates Reggae Community, Explores Untapped Local Potential
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Michael Mazza, one of the founders and organizers of the event, said he hopes that “people will take what they get from the experience and take it back to wherever they go.”
Arts & Entertainment
COLLINS | What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
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I’m in the twilight of my days as a columnist for The Sun. I know that, typically, columnists will close out their time with parting words of advice to incoming first-years or graduating seniors. But, although I’ve done that in the past weeks, the fact of the matter is that I don’t have much advice to impart. Or, at least, much advice that you haven’t already heard hundreds of times, and will hear a hundred more times. Go to office hours, try out something new on campus, make sure to wear sunblock on Slope Day, etc.
Arts & Entertainment
SWAN | This Should Be a Given
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Last week, Kendrick Lamar’s Damn. won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music. This was the first time that a non-classical, non-jazz work was awarded the prize. I love Kendrick Lamar and I thoroughly enjoy Damn., but nevertheless, my reactions to this decision are mixed. Not, of course, about whether Kendrick Lamar’s work is deserving of such acclaim; indeed, the musical complexity and poetic mastery present on Damn., as well as earlier albums like To Pimp a Butterfly, warrant the utmost critical respect.