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          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
  
      
    
          The OwlTogether Arts Festival Online brings Temple’s artistic community together    
            
              
  
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  The Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts will host an online showcase of student work.
  April 24, 2020
  
      
    
          Music to our ears    
            
              
  
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  Two Boyer faculty members aim to lift our spirits through live-streamed concerts.
  March 20, 2020
  
      
    
          Temple Water Week brings together arts and science on Main Campus    
            
              
  
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  Professors, students build week of performances, talks, service work to bring awareness to the world’s estimated 2.2 billion people without access to clean water.
  March 11, 2020
  
      
    
          Boyer student lifts her father’s spirits with music    
            
              
  
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  Allie McCrea’s video of herself singing with her father from his hospital bed went viral.  
  February 10, 2020
  
      
    
          Student and faculty musicians are Grammy hopefuls    
            
              
  
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  “Love, A Beautiful Force,” penned by superstar composer and arranger Vince Mendoza, features the Temple University Studio Orchestra.
  January 17, 2020
  
      
    
          Temple partners with Philadelphia Orchestra on 2019 China tour    
            
              
  
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  The tour is one of many milestones in the university’s long a fruitful partnership with the China, launched 40 years ago.
  June 17, 2019
  
      
    
          High note: Music major’s crossword puzzle lands in New York Times    
            
              
  
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  Temple University undergraduate Ellis Hay’s attention to detail is an invaluable skill in composing music and crossword puzzles.
  March 26, 2019
  
      
    
          Temple professors win coveted Guggenheim Fellowships    
            
              
  
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  Two Temple professors, Jeremy Schipper and Mark Franko, recently won Guggenheim Fellowships to pursue academic research.
  April 24, 2018
  
      
    
          Boyer students pay tribute to Frank Sinatra on new record    
            
              
  
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  Students collaborated with prestigious faculty soloists and Grammy-winning arranger Michael Abene on the new album. 
  June 21, 2017
  
      
    
           Next stop: Master’s in violin performance at Boyer     
            
              
  
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  After four years of callused fingers and international awards, one senior is ready to push himself even further at Boyer. 
  May 10, 2017
  
      
    
          The healing power of music    
            
              
  
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  Music therapy has been shown to have a beneficial effect on anxiety, fatigue and pain in people with cancer.
  December 13, 2016
  
      
    
          The keystrokes of life     
            
              
  
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  Sara Davis Buechner, pianist and associate professor at Boyer, is an individual of many lives—her newest being a Temple Owl.
  November 17, 2016
  
      
    
          Monumental dance    
            
              
  
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  Anywhere, choreographed by Kathy Westwater and commissioned by the Department of Dance, makes its debut at Temple this month. 
  September 13, 2016
  























