Boyer College of Music and Dance
Temple shares details regarding ‘pathbreaking project’ for Klein College of Media and Communication and Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts
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Temple to build new facility for Klein and Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts.
November 19, 2024
Getting into the groove: Temple Dance Department celebrates 50 years
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Temple’s Dance Department honors its storied 50-year history by highlighting its students, alumni and faculty in various performances and other events.
September 4, 2024
UArts students find new home at Temple
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Temple continues to do all it can to make the transition as easy as possible for UArts students.
August 8, 2024
Temple works to assist University of the Arts community
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Temple is working to ensure that all UArts students have a path to continue their studies.
June 6, 2024
Concert choir’s April show will honor Matthew Shepard
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The Temple University Concert Choir has been developing the show since last summer.
April 10, 2024
Making music that matters
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Temple alumnus Steve Weiser has found success as executive director of the Erie Philharmonic.
March 5, 2024
What does queer performance have in common with country music?
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Professor Shana Goldin-Perschbacher discusses her book ‘Queer Country.’
June 22, 2023
Boyer students and faculty light up the Kimmel Center at 20th annual concert
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The Temple University Choir, Symphony Orchestra and Studio Orchestra performed during Boyer College of Music and Dance’s 20th annual concert at the Kimmel Cultural Campus.
June 2, 2023
Dancing through life: Temple senior is ready to see the world
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Temple University senior Melanie Smith is planning on traveling after she graduates.
May 8, 2023
Temple professor wins Society for Music Theory award for article analyzing Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Alright’
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Temple University professor Noriko Manabe’s article was the first article on hip-hop to win a Society for Music Theory Award.
February 14, 2023
Boyer PhD student and Presser Award recipient releases album honoring Black choral music
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Walking Through the Valley, the debut album by Boyer PhD student Baker Purdon, contains work that has never before been recorded by Black composers throughout the 20th century.
October 12, 2022
Boyer graduate earns prestigious New World Symphony fellowship position
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Temple University alumnus Caleb Breidenbaugh will begin his fellowship position at the Miami-based orchestral academy this fall.
August 15, 2022
New hip-hop dance minor invites everyone to join the cypher
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Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance leverages Philadelphia's celebrated hip hop scene with its newest minor program.
August 4, 2022
Jazz trumpeter Terell Stafford is focused on mentoring the next generation of musicians
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Temple professor Terell Stafford’s career has included a Grammy award, chart-topping albums and collaborations with jazz greats.
April 12, 2022
Kenny Garrett, a Grammy award-winning musician, performs at Temple
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In February, Temple and WRTI hosted a free live community jazz concert at the Temple Performing Arts Center.
March 4, 2022
Boyer graduate receives a prestigious award for research on New Orleans and Philadelphia jazz
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Fareed Simpson-Hankins returns to his roots in the Community Music Scholars Program and shares his success.
February 10, 2022
Two Owls find a way to assist the Afghan people at the Philadelphia airport
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Translation for resettling Afghans as an act of community care.
December 14, 2021
The Temple University Jazz Band celebrates the legacy of jazz great Jimmy Heath
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The band’s new album honors luminaries including Heath, John Chaney and Bootsie Barnes.
October 15, 2021
Exposing more African Americans to ballet
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Through her ballet company, Chanel Holland, BYR ’12, changed the perception of what it means to be a ballet dancer.
June 29, 2021
In a class of her own
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Alumna Nicole Jordan is the Philadelphia Orchestra’s first Black female member.
June 22, 2021
Temple University Opera Theater’s 'The Turn of the Screw' in pictures
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See a gallery of photos from the production, which was adapted to meet the safety restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
December 2, 2020
All together now: The making of Temple University Jazz Band's 'Covid Sessions'
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Produced during the pandemic and assembled from individual recordings students made separately, the album is one of the first of its kind.
November 16, 2020
A new dance show reimagines performances for the pandemic era
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Christina Castro-Tauser’s show "Connecting the Distance" is part walking tour, part virtual dance showcase.
September 21, 2020
Owls at the DNC, RNC
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Get to know the Temple alumni, students and faculty involved with the recent Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
September 9, 2020
Temple violist completes master’s degree on a high note thanks to Philadelphia Orchestra
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June 18, 2020