Music

Flexing Multiple Skills, Anthony Costanzo ’04 Is Out to Save Opera Philadelphia

The famed countertenor continues to perform as he leads the opera company out of a financial crisis

New Sounds at Old Nassau

How Rudresh Mahanthappa reshaped Princeton’s jazz program amid an Ivy League surge

Professor Sean Wilentz Co-produced Bob Dylan’s New ‘Bootleg’ Albums

‘He works very, very hard. Genius does not become genius on its own. You have to work at it for it to flower’

Madeleine Haddon *21 Helped Create a David Bowie Museum

Haddon, a senior curator, says the newly opened David Bowie Centre in East London is unlike any museum visitors have ever seen

Princeton University Press Director Walter Lippincott ’60 Loved Opera

Jan. 16, 1939 — Jan. 18, 2025

Princetonian Grammys Exhibit Sounds Like a Winner

These Princetonians Are Teaching Music to Immigrant Children

The Connecticut-based nonprofit INTEMPO is full of Princeton connections

Animal Music Course Strikes a Chord With Students

PAW Goes to the Movies: ‘Springsteen’

Duneier, who has seen The Boss more than 100 times in concert, critiques the new film

Vocalist Charmaine Lee ’14 Creates Mind-Bending Music

‘At what point does life become music, become sound, become music, become life?’

Students Sing Praises of Salzburg Opera Festival

Making Jazz at Princeton, From a Newcomer’s Perspective

The Lasting Groove of Princeton Record Exchange

In honor of Record Store Day on April 12, PAW explores the history of PREX

From a Legacy of Words, He Advanced the Study of Music

Jason Posnock ’94 Is Educating Great Musicians at Brevard Center

‘Princeton doesn’t teach you what to think. It teaches you how to activate your brain’

And the Grammy Goes To...

Their album, Rectangles and Circumstance, featuring composer Caroline Shaw *14, won Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Professor Sean Wilentz Watches ‘A Complete Unknown’

‘The facts are all true, the songs are all true. But none of it happened the way that the film depicts it,’ says the Princeton history professor

Anna Yu Wang Is Diversifying Music Studies

Princeton Glee Club Celebrates 150 Years

New Music, Old Themes

Julia Wolfe *12’s experiments with sound span the traditional and the trippy

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Still a student, composer Caroline Shaw has become a star by following her own musical recipe

Julia Wolfe *12: Musical Innovator

An award-winning musician breaks new ground while exploring American history