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The Music at Pitt Podcast
Pitt's Department of Music
9 episodes
3 months ago
The Music at Pitt Podcast has been on hiatus while Pitt has been transitioning to remote learning, but we’re back and recording from the Lawrenceville Offices of the Department of Music (aka my home studio) and conducting interviews over zoom. Our guest for this episode is Senior Emma Lebo, a senior Music Major who has been playing trumpet for 13 years and double bass for 12. For her Senior Capstone Project, Emma is focusing on New Discipline music and its fundamental characteristics such as ...
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The Music at Pitt Podcast has been on hiatus while Pitt has been transitioning to remote learning, but we’re back and recording from the Lawrenceville Offices of the Department of Music (aka my home studio) and conducting interviews over zoom. Our guest for this episode is Senior Emma Lebo, a senior Music Major who has been playing trumpet for 13 years and double bass for 12. For her Senior Capstone Project, Emma is focusing on New Discipline music and its fundamental characteristics such as ...
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The Music at Pitt Podcast
Lily Turner on Teaching a Machine to Play Like Mark O'Connor
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Lily Turner, a freshly minted Pitt graduate from Blacksburg, Virginia. As a student at Pitt she was a double major in Computer Science and Music, specifically pursuing the Global and Popular Music track. Lily is particularly interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence. She’s previously done research into using convolutional neural networks for computational drug discovery and is now interested in applying machine learni...
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9 months ago
18 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
Award Winning Composer Wang Xinyang
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is composition and theory doctoral candidate Wang Xinyang. Born in Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, China, Wang Xinyang is a composer of classical music, currently based in Pittsburgh. He holds a bachelor's degree from Sichuan Conservatory of Music and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music both in music composition and theory. Xinyang takes inspiration from a broad spectrum of influences, such as traditional Chinese arts and ...
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9 months ago
25 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
James P. Cassaro on the Music Library's Grammy Museum Grant
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Jim Cassaro, Head of the Theodore M. Finney Music Library and Professor of Music. Jim is a librarian-musicologist who specializes in seventeenth-century French music, with a particular interest in Jean Baptiste Lully. He’s published several monographs and contributed articles to leading journals of both library science and musicology. For the Department of Music, Jim teaches a wide variety of courses ranging from Principles of Researc...
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9 months ago
26 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
Emma Lebo Explores New Discipline Music
The Music at Pitt Podcast has been on hiatus while Pitt has been transitioning to remote learning, but we’re back and recording from the Lawrenceville Offices of the Department of Music (aka my home studio) and conducting interviews over zoom. Our guest for this episode is Senior Emma Lebo, a senior Music Major who has been playing trumpet for 13 years and double bass for 12. For her Senior Capstone Project, Emma is focusing on New Discipline music and its fundamental characteristics such as ...
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9 months ago
21 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
Larissa Irizarry on Adriana Mater, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Janelle Monáe
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is musicology doctoral student Larissa Irizarry. Larissa is receiving significant recognition for her research into 21st-century opera and 1970s rock where she explores depictions of gender-based violence, interracial intimacy, and queer intimacy. She will be a Mellon Fellow in 2020–21 and was recently awarded Pitt’s Don O. Franklin Prize for Musicology for her paper on Kaija Saariaho’s opera Adriana Mater which explores rape-related pre...
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9 months ago
29 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
A Conversation with Professor of Music, Emeritus Deane Root - Part 1
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Deane Root, the music department’s newest Professor, Emeritus. Deane recently retired from more jobs than most of us hold in a lifetime, including being the Director of the Center for American Music, the Fletcher Hodges, Jr. Curator for the Center for American Music, and Professor of Musicology for Pitt’s Department of Music where he served multiple terms as Chair. For his “retirement” project he continues to serve as the Editor in Ch...
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9 months ago
26 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
Composer Devon Tipp Discusses Their Recent Work
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt podcast is Devon Tipp. A PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, Tipp’s music draws influence from their Japanese and Eastern European roots, experiences as a jeweler and painter, and studies of gagaku and hogaku in Japan and the US. They received their BMus from Montclair State University, where they studied composition and microtonal music with Dean Drummond, and shakuhachi with Elizabeth Brown. Their music has been performed by microto...
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9 months ago
31 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
A Conversation with Professor of Music Emeritus Deane Root - Part 2
In this episode we present part two of our conversation with Professor of Music, Emeritus Deane Root. For part 2 we discuss the power of community, from coping with the trauma of the Tree of Life shooting to creating a more inclusive environment for music scholarship.
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9 months ago
23 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
Mariam Shalaby on Qur'anic Recitation Among Pittsburgh Egyptian Muslims
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is recent graduate Mariam Shalaby. Mariam graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2018 with a BPhil in Music through the Honors College and Department of Music and a BS in Natural Sciences. She is a first generation Egyptian American now in her second year at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey. And though we’ve heard rumors that medical school can keep you busy, Mariam recently had her article “Qur’anic Recitation Among Pit...
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9 months ago
38 minutes

The Music at Pitt Podcast
The Music at Pitt Podcast has been on hiatus while Pitt has been transitioning to remote learning, but we’re back and recording from the Lawrenceville Offices of the Department of Music (aka my home studio) and conducting interviews over zoom. Our guest for this episode is Senior Emma Lebo, a senior Music Major who has been playing trumpet for 13 years and double bass for 12. For her Senior Capstone Project, Emma is focusing on New Discipline music and its fundamental characteristics such as ...