You already know – or you’ll quickly learn – about the beauty of the Western campus, with castle-like towers straight out of a movie set and ivy-covered buildings full of history and research. But what about the lesser-known Western locations that de …
For American composers seeking a unique, American sound, the reverberations of the Cold War were palpable. As Emily Abrams Ansari sees it, the tension between the East and West transformed the nation’s music as it indelibly affected those who produced it.
The plight of music teachers has fallen on Ontario politicians’ tone deaf ears, a Western Music professor contends. Despite ongoing public discussion about the importance of music education, many Ontario public school students will never get to experience the joy of...
Opera singer Bethany Hynes, a Don Wright Faculty of Music graduate student, asks her peers a simple question: what does your voice mean to you? “Singers think about their voice a lot – how they function, how they sound and what it says about them as people,” she says....
Western’s Teaching Fellows are outstanding educators who, in partnership with the Teaching Support Centre, provide educational leadership to the university community through research on teaching and learning. Each Fellow develops, implements, and assesses the impact...
It was a performance Colleen Richardson never expected.
The atonal clatter of utensils on plates falls away to near-silence when Kristal Daniels, accompanying herself on grand piano, begins to sing a soulful Verdi love song. One elderly diner whispers to her table partner, “It is so lovely to have our own lunchtime...
Karen Shelstad never thought she’d be in the gym six days a week, much less be part of a world-champion dragon boat racing team heading to Hungary and Italy this July for an international competition. She also never thought she’d have breast cancer. But it was that...
The academic space is a diverse place, composed of various forms of evidence. Increasingly, the conversation around what constitutes evidence, and what type of evidence ought to be applied to bring change, has become a critical topic of discussion. These factors have...
Even in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, more than 8,600 kilometres from Western’s campus, Iuri Soares senses the public’s perception of music education as an option, a luxury. “Traditionally, music education is a low-status discipline, so I want to understand a...
A crew of feisty buccaneers have invaded the Paul...
As a pre-schooler, Sarah Quartel found music everywhere, even in the tuneless rattle of the refrigerator. “I used to sing along with the hum of the appliances and create melodies and harmonies from what I heard.” Today, Quartel, BMus’05, BEd’06, is one of Canada’s...
As 2017 winds down, Western News brings you a list of book recommendations from members of our campus community. Included are the year’s favourite reads from students, staff, faculty and alumni.
For American composers seeking a unique, American sound, the reverberations of the Cold War were palpable. As Emily Abrams Ansari sees it, the tension between the East and West transformed the nation’s music as it indelibly affected those who produced it.
The plight of music teachers has fallen on Ontario politicians’ tone deaf ears, a Western Music professor contends. Despite ongoing public discussion about the importance of music education, many Ontario public school students will never get to experience the joy of...
Opera singer Bethany Hynes, a Don Wright Faculty of Music graduate student, asks her peers a simple question: what does your voice mean to you? “Singers think about their voice a lot – how they function, how they sound and what it says about them as people,” she says....
Western’s Teaching Fellows are outstanding educators who, in partnership with the Teaching Support Centre, provide educational leadership to the university community through research on teaching and learning. Each Fellow develops, implements, and assesses the impact...
It was a performance Colleen Richardson never expected.
The atonal clatter of utensils on plates falls away to near-silence when Kristal Daniels, accompanying herself on grand piano, begins to sing a soulful Verdi love song. One elderly diner whispers to her table partner, “It is so lovely to have our own lunchtime...
Karen Shelstad never thought she’d be in the gym six days a week, much less be part of a world-champion dragon boat racing team heading to Hungary and Italy this July for an international competition. She also never thought she’d have breast cancer. But it was that...
The academic space is a diverse place, composed of various forms of evidence. Increasingly, the conversation around what constitutes evidence, and what type of evidence ought to be applied to bring change, has become a critical topic of discussion. These factors have...
Even in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, more than 8,600 kilometres from Western’s campus, Iuri Soares senses the public’s perception of music education as an option, a luxury. “Traditionally, music education is a low-status discipline, so I want to understand a...
A crew of feisty buccaneers have invaded the Paul...
As a pre-schooler, Sarah Quartel found music everywhere, even in the tuneless rattle of the refrigerator. “I used to sing along with the hum of the appliances and create melodies and harmonies from what I heard.” Today, Quartel, BMus’05, BEd’06, is one of Canada’s...
As 2017 winds down, Western News brings you a list of book recommendations from members of our campus community. Included are the year’s favourite reads from students, staff, faculty and alumni.