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Moved by a performance of the 2013 Holiday Festival, one of the College of Music's and CU Presents' most popular events year after year, University of Colorado Regent Stephen Ludwig authored a poem, "Cosmic Gift," that distills some of the emotions stirred by the performance.

The 麻豆影院 Horn Choir performs Jean-Fran莽ois Taillard's "Christmas Crackers" at Denver's Children's Hospital on Dec. 9, 2013, Michael Thornton directing.

Beginning in fall 2014, these Sher Distinguished Scholars (either undergraduate or graduate students) will be awarded full-ride scholarships to the College of Music based on their demonstrated exceptional ability and potential to excel at a national and international level.

Following the brutal ethnic cleansing that ravaged Kosovo in the late 1990s, Liz Shropshire wanted to find a way to help the tens of thousands of children living in refugee camps.

Thanks to Daphne Leong for providing these recent highlights from the CU-麻豆影院 Music Theory program:

Here鈥檚 the kind of musician 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner Vadym Kholodenko is: Dissatisfied with cadenzas he鈥檇 heard to the first movement of Mozart鈥檚 Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, he decided he鈥檇 write one himself.

CU-麻豆影院 College of Music faculty, students and alumni at the biennial Symposium on Music Teacher Education, which took place this September at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The program will feature presentations by Rabbi Jeffrey Summit of Tufts University and Associate Professor of Music Theory Yonatan Malin, on their work in the area of Jewish music. There also will be musical presentations from Eyal Rivlin, lecturer in Hebrew at CU, and cantors Michelle Wolf and Joe Lukasik.

BOULDER, Colo. 鈥� 鈥淎ccess to arts education is one of the civil rights issues of our time,鈥� says Anthony Brandt, associate professor at Rice University鈥檚 Shepherd School of Music. That may sound like hyperbole, but Brandt says it鈥檚 just neuroscience. Complex human behavior involves both automated behavior 鈥� rote memorization 鈥� and mediated behavior, which requires synthesis, reasoning and creativity.

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