The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, conducted by music performance professor Stephen Peterson, performed John Corigliano’s “Circus Maximus” at Cornell University’s Bailey Hall in February. The piece — which employs a marching band, two sirens, and a shotgun, among more traditional instruments — is designed to create an...

John O’Neill '55 and his wife, Nelle Doak O’Neill ’56, haven’t slowed down one bit since we wrote about them in our 2006/4 issue (“Renaissance Couple”). If anything, maybe they’ve become more active! Two of John’s compositions for strings, An Americana Medley and his...

The audience wins when this intergenerational ensemble of singers comes together.
by Erika Spaet '09

Ruth Davis had a habit she just couldn’t break. The 87-year-old resident of Longview senior living community just couldn’t stop singing. Down the stairs, in the shower, and through the halls—it didn’t matter...