Choral conductor Ken Greenhouse began teaching at Berklee in 1982, and went on to chair the Voice Department from 1984 to 1996 before moving to Atlanta in 1999. He passed away July 16. (Read the obituary.) Yumiko Matsuoka, now a Berklee professor, met Ken when she began studying at Berklee herself. I came to Berklee [...]
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Remembering Charlie Chapman
July 22, 2011 – 3:02 pm
Charles Chapman, jazz guitarist and retired member of Berklee’s Guitar Department, passed away in Maine on July 18. We asked some of his former colleagues and students to share their remembrances. Feel free to add your own in the comments. Update: obituary in the Herald Gazette; family guestbook for condolences. Mark Small ’73, editor of [...]
Video games at Berklee this week
July 19, 2011 – 4:33 pm
Why spend your summer playing video games when you can learn to write music for them? Video game music has really taken off around here in the last few years—you can even minor in the subject now. This week, for the first time, Berklee is offering not one but two summer programs for aspiring video [...]
Fiddle competitions 101—no, 102
July 1, 2011 – 5:50 pm
Coming to you Wednesday afternoon from the Mark O’Connor/Berklee Summer String Program… fiddle cases are everywhere! Fiddler Dan Carwile is so detail-oriented he has a spreadsheet ranking brands of rosin. He told a dozen students he wanted them to learn past masters’ fiddle tunes so well that they could name every lick they stole. “I’m [...]
TransAtlantic Seaway in Glasgow: Day 5
May 2, 2011 – 1:11 pm
Berklee VP for student affairs/Scotland fan Larry Bethune covers the TransAtlantic Seaway Music Collaboration’s first trip to Glasgow, with help from musician Hamish Napier. DAY 5—SAT 29 JAN “Standing room only” Hamish N.: The BIG DAY has come, and Larry has everyone assembled in the Green Room for 11am for one final run-through of the [...]