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Lynnel Joy Jenkins– Artistic Director of the Princeton Girlchoir

December 20, 2014 By Eric Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8pL0uf89Bc&feature=youtu.be Kate Dunn interviews Lynnel Joy Jenkins, Artistic Director of the Princeton Girlchoir, about her musical upbringing, her experiences as a conductor who happens to be a woman, her life in Princeton, and her philosophy of music education. 0:22:  Making music with her family, in her church and in school during … [Read more...]

Betty Stoloff– Piano Pedagogue and Chief Organizer of the Performathon

December 7, 2014 By Eric Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttuwXXq72cY&feature=youtu.be Lauren Handy talks to Betty Stoloff, who teaches privately and at Westminster Choir College.  She also organizes the annual Performathon, who raises money for local Ronald McDonald houses. 0:03: Musical background 0:43: Her goal when entering college 1:20: Moving to Princeton after graduate … [Read more...]

Brent Johnson– New Jersey Rock Musician

December 4, 2014 By Eric Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_TbWRRbMc Sarah Labrie interviews rock musician Brent Johnson. 0:10:  Brent introduces himself 1:17:  His musical background 2:20:  His first performance experiences 3:00:  Musical influences as a youth and a teen 5:05:  Deciding to pursue music professionally as a sophomore in high school 9:25:  One of the great things about … [Read more...]

Maggie O’Neill– Newly Minted Music Educator and Former President of Sigma Alpha Iota-Westminster Chapter

November 30, 2014 By Eric Leave a Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXaWAZBclo Shanley Horvitz talks to Westminster Choir College alum Maggie O'Neill about life after college. 0:20: Current professional activities (one semester after graduation) 0:56: Deciding to attend Westminster Choir College 2:26: Musical life growing up in Haddonfield, NJ 3:18: View of musical life in Princeton 4:20: … [Read more...]

Tom Whittemore– Church Musician Extraordinaire

November 29, 2014 By Eric 1 Comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O01ixQIcQSI Thomas Heidenreich interviews Tom Whittemore, the Music Director of Trinity Church, Princeton. 0:11: Singing in Trinity Church, New Haven as a youth 3:15: The organ at Trinity Church, New Haven 4:53: Youthful dabbling on trombone 6:05: Operatic and oratorio opportunities as a treble 8:29: Lessons from working with … [Read more...]

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Upcoming Ecomusicology Conference

Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation

April 8-10, 2016 Westminster Choir College of Rider University Princeton, NJ "Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation" seeks to bring together scholars, performers, and composers to further explore the relationships between music, culture, and the environment. The conference will tune to sounds as they fit or belong in the place they are heard, as they fit or belong in some other place, or as they have no ecological home, either built or natural. Among the questions at

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