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2022 College of Music Holiday Festival continues cherished tradition
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The CU Presents season
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College of Music welcomes 2022 Sher Distinguished Musician Scholars
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Storm Large rings in the holiday season with song, stories and a punk-rock attitude
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Meet Assistant Professor of Violin Alex Gonzalez
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Ephrat Asherie Dance’s Odeon finds common roots in diverse cultural cues
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2022 College of Music Holiday Festival continues cherished tradition By Adam Goldstein
No amount of string lights, eggnog or ugly sweaters can summon the deeper meaning of the holiday season without a soundtrack. Whether it’s a familiar carol or a stunning seasonal orchestral masterwork, music makes a holiday celebration. That’s why the CU Boulder College of Music’s annual Holiday Festival plays such a central role in ringing in the holiday spirit for the entire community. For decades, College of Music student musicians and world-class faculty performers have come together to present a one-of-a-kind holiday program that combines beloved musical traditions, exciting new works and expressions of cheer from all over the world. “There’s an excitement and enthusiasm about it,” says Donald McKinney, director of bands, professor of conducting and conducting chair. Indeed, coming back for the second festival after the cancellation of the 2020 celebration due to the COVID-19 6
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pandemic still adds extra significance for many. “Since I took over managing the event in 2018, I’ve always had that sense of excitement about the festival, but once the pandemic happened, it really made it even more apparent that we have to appreciate every moment of it and realize how special it is.” This year’s festival runs from Dec. 2 to 4, formally launching the local holiday season with a wide-ranging program featuring student choirs, bands and orchestras, as well as accomplished faculty performers. The program represents a mix of different musical styles and approaches, with traditional hymns like Betelehemu and the Hallelujah Chorus, as well as exciting selections that reflect the college’s dedication to inclusive excellence—from an orchestral rendition of Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Christmas Overture to a choral performance of This Little Light of Mine, arranged by African American composer Moses Hogan.
What’s more, the lineup includes a performance by a student bassoon ensemble, a popular feature of the 2019 festival. For us, the festival is more than a celebration of the season; it’s also a chance for College of Music student musicians to demonstrate their progress at the end of the academic semester, just as it’s an opportunity for the college’s accomplished faculty to return to their roots as performers and musicians. “Everybody who performs onstage is a student or a faculty member,” McKinney says. “Everybody involved has a commitment to the College of Music.” 2022 HOLIDAY FESTIVAL Dec. 2-4, 2022 Macky Auditorium Tickets at this QR Code:
The Drowsy Chaperone
A musical by Lisa Lambert, Don McKellar, Bob Martin and Greg Morrison
The Importance of Being Earnest
Ephrat Asherie Dance ODEON
A trivial comedy for serious people by Oscar Wilde
Friday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium
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Storm Large
Takács Quartet
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Sunday, Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium
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Boulder’s beloved holiday tradition
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Holiday Ordeal
Jan. 8-9 Grusin Music Hall Streaming Jan. 8-16
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An Evening with Branford Marsalis
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March 12-13 Grusin Music Hall Streaming March 12-20
An opera by Jules Massenet
March 17 and 19 Macky Auditorium
Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s A play by Madhuri Shekar
Feb. 24-March 5 Old Main Chapel
Jupiter Ensemble with Lea Desandre All Vivaldi
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College of Music welcomes 2022 Sher Distinguished Musician Scholars By MarieFaith Lane
We’re delighted to announce Jude Dow-Hygelund and Cian Krueger as our 2022 Sher Distinguished Musician Scholars!
“I looked up to the entire jazz faculty, especially John Gunther, Paul Romaine and Brad Goode. I’m so excited to be mentored by the amazing faculty here!”
“Jude and Cian have accepted our offer of full-ride scholarships funded by John and Anna Sie,” says Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Enrollment Management Matthew Roeder. “I know that both recipients are extremely grateful for the opportunity to attend CU Boulder and pursue their music studies with us in the College of Music, beginning this fall.
Kreuger, who says he’s also fascinated by the history of jazz, shares what he enjoys most in playing the saxophone: “I love the motion and expression of improvisation. There is so much freedom and so many liberties you can take.”
“I’m excited that we will have these two very talented musicians as part of our incoming class of first-year music students.”
Cian Krueger
A Colorado native, Krueger grew up in the Thornton area and is studying alto jazz saxophone. Instantly drawn to CU Boulder, he knew that our College of Music was the place for him. “I’m inspired by the jazz faculty and the College of Music community—as well as the CU Boulder campus as a whole,” he says. 10
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He adds, “My lifelong dream is to perform. I’m excited to devote my time to studying the craft—growing as a musician and understanding more about how music is communicated and expressed. “I can’t wait to collaborate with other musicians in the College of Music, and connect and help others through music within the Boulder community and beyond.”
Jude Dow-Hygelund
Piano performance student DowHygelund—whose sister received the same scholarship last year—knew that he wanted to study at the College of Music because of its strong piano
program. “I’m looking forward to working with Professor of Piano Andrew Cooperstock and the rest of the piano faculty,” says Dow-Hygelund, from Longmont, Colorado, via Oregon. “I’m also drawn to the College of Music community, the CU Boulder campus and the greater Boulder area.” Dow-Hygelund’s upbringing and family influence inspired him to pursue music. “My grandfather played the double bass and my parents played a lot of jazz in the speaker system that we had in the house growing up. I grew up hearing solo piano music.” Dow-Hygelund’s sister, Raven, is pursuing a double major in classical guitar performance and physics at CU Boulder. “We’ve collaborated a bit on chromatic harmonica and guitar, but not on piano and guitar,” he says. Still determining his own path in music, he adds, “There are so many amazing musicians at the College of Music, and I’m very excited and appreciative of the many opportunities for collaboration.”
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of these different creative facets. Sure, the show celebrates some familiar holiday cues (in the past, she’s put her own spin on standards like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas), but the chanteuse also brings her own spin to what it means to ring in the spirit of the season. Large’s Holiday Ordeal features an ambitious musical catalog. She performed her holiday show virtually during the worst stretches of the COVID-19 pandemic, welcoming guests like Jimmie Herod and Puddles the Clown.
Storm Large rings in the holiday season with song, stories and a punk-rock attitude By Adam Goldstein
Storm Large’s approach to a holiday concert is hardly traditional, and considering her musical résumé, that’s really no wonder. Large’s career as a singer, songwriter, actor and author hasn’t followed a straightforward course. From the varied independent musical projects she spearheaded in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon over the past 20 years, to her appearance as a contestant on the reality show Rock Star: Supernova in 2006, to her stint fronting the band Pink Martini in 2011, Large’s musical journey has zigged and zagged. Along with carving out 12
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accomplishments as an actress, author and playwright, Large has successfully charted her own course. She’s been a punk rock queen and a sultry siren; she’s published a memoir and penned a one-woman autobiographical show. She’s appeared on national television and recorded with the likes of Dave Navarro; she’s played Sally Bowles in a Portland production of Cabaret and impressed the judges on America’s Got Talent. Large brings that vast artistic experience to Macky Auditorium for Holiday Ordeal, a show that reflects all
Her return to in-person performances promises to feature heartfelt renditions of songs that one may not necessarily associate with the holiday season. In the past, she’s included covers ranging from the Pogues’ Fairytale of New York to Journey’s rock anthem Don’t Stop Believin’ to Leonard Cohen’s modern hymn, Hallelujah. The musical component of the 2022 showcase reflects this all-embracing approach, one that celebrates songs that offer a sense of joy, celebration and camaraderie. Beyond the music, however, Holiday Ordeal features Large’s talent for captivating a crowd with comedy and theatrics. Large brings her flair for “gags and gifts” to her holiday celebration, summoning the spirit of the young girl who re-enacted Monty Python skits and Mel Brooks routines to help ease the pressures of growing up in a family with its fair share of issues. As she’s proven in the past, the best way to relieve the stress of the holiday season is through song, laughter and spectacle, and there’s no one more qualified to do that than Storm Large. ARTIST SERIES Storm Large Holiday Ordeal Dec. 11, 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium Tickets at this QR Code:
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An Evening with Branford Marsalis The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul
Saturday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium Tickets start at $24
Jupiter Ensemble with Lea Desandre All Vivaldi
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Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion
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He further explains, “My job is to give students the tools and perspective they need to broaden their horizons and explore all different genres, styles and avenues within the music world—and opportunities outside of the music environment, too. This is a mindset that I absolutely encourage—and require— to help students gain perspective on many disciplines, instead of getting stuck in tunnel vision. Why limit yourself?” As a multifaceted musician himself, Gonzalez well understands today’s demand for universally trained musicians—among other areas of experience, he brings to our college extensive experience as a teaching artist, a virtuoso performing artist and a recording artist.
Meet Assistant Professor of Violin Alex Gonzalez By MarieFaith Lane
Joining the College of Music faculty this fall, Assistant Professor of Violin Alex Gonzazlez is no stranger to the Centennial State. “I’ve spent five or six summers in Colorado, in some capacity,” he recalls, having most recently moved here from Las Vegas, Nevada. “Over the years, I’ve spent time in Aspen as a student and in Boulder playing at the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival. It still feels like a new place to me, but it also feels somewhat familiar.” Gonzalez shared with us his commitment to developing what Dean John Davis calls the universal musician, and cultivating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all
students, faculty and staff. “This is how the music world is structured these days,” he says.
“It’s not about hyperspecialization, but about flexibility, creativity and keeping an open mind.” “It’s imperative to be flexible because being rigid hurts your expression. If you can exemplify flexibility in your life and interests, it translates to your life on stage and makes you much more communicative in every area.”
Indeed, throughout his education and career, Gonzalez has explored many musical paths. “Along the way, I found that every time I was 100% focused on just one thing, it felt like something was missing or I would start to feel burned out,” he reflects. “You may love ice cream, but if all you eat is ice cream, you’re going to get sick. “When I was in school, the universal musician model didn’t really exist. It was more about hyper-specialization, which does have its place. But over time, I discovered that constructing my life in such a way that I didn’t have to choose just one path is also valid and—for me—actually preferable.” Gonzalez adds, “One of the things that drew me to the College of Music is the amazing faculty, many of whom have collaborative backgrounds which is something that I care about in teaching, music and life in general. “Upon moving to Colorado and meeting our faculty and staff, I’ve come to observe that collaboration is a shared value across the entire university community—from students and faculty to staff and administrators. I can’t wait to exchange ideas with everyone, to inspire and promote an evermore wonderful learning environment and creative, welcoming space.” @cupresents · #cupresents
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IVALAS QUARTET: NOV. 6-7, 2022 (STREAMING NOV. 6-14)
Ivalas Quartet
Alberga, Golijov and Beethoven 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 7, 2022 Grusin Music Hall Streaming Nov. 6-14
Program String Quartet No. 1
Eleanor Alberga (b. 1949) I. II. III.
Détaché et matellato e zehr lebhaft und Swing It Man Espressivo with Wonder and Yearning Frantically Driven yet Playful
Tenebrae
Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)
—Intermission— String Quartet No. 13, Op. 130 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) I. II. III. IV. V. VI.
Adagio ma non troppo — Allegro Presto Andante con moto ma non troppo Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo Finale. Allegro
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About the performers
Composed of violinists Reuben Kebede and Tiani Butts, violist Aimée McAnulty and cellist Pedro Sánchez, the Ivalas Quartet has been changing the face of classical music since their inception at the University of Michigan in 2017. Dedicated to the celebration of BIPOC voices, Ivalas seeks to disrupt the classical music world by continuously spotlighting BIPOC composers such as Jessie Montgomery, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Eleanor Alberga. The Ivalas Quartet had the pleasure of performing George Walker’s Lyric for Strings at Carnegie Hall in January of 2020. Later that year, they worked in collaboration with Walker’s son to program his String Quartet No. 1 with Friends of Chamber Music Denver and the Colorado Music Festival. In 2021, they created the first recording of Carlos Simon’s Warmth From Other Suns for string quartet under Lara Downes’ digital label Rising Sun Music. The Ivalas Quartet spent 2019-2022 in residence at the University of Colorado Boulder under the mentorship of the Takács Quartet. During the summer seasons, Ivalas has worked with the Ying Quartet at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 2018 and the Pacifica Quartet, American Quartet and Escher Quartet at the Aspen Music Festival in 2019. Ivalas has also spent the past 3 summers at the Great Lakes Music Festival working with the Emerson Quartet and had the opportunity to perform Mendelssohn’s String Quintet No. 2 in concert with Eugene Drucker in 2019. The quartet has additionally been coached by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Calidore String Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Peter Oundjian, Paul Katz, Ayano Ninomiya, Masumi Rostad, Kirsten Docter, Jeffrey Zeigler, Danielle Belen, Richard Aaron, Kathryn Votapek and Mikhail Kopelman, and worked with composers Samuel Adler, Carlos Simon and Missy Mazzoli. Ivalas has performed in various concert series, including Detroit’s WRCJ Classical Brunch, the inaugural Detroit Music Weekend, the Crested Butte Music Festival, the Great Lakes Center for the Arts and CU Presents concert series, where the quartet performed alongside the Takács Quartet in 2020. Winners of the 2019 WDAV Young Artist Chamber Music Competition in Davidson, North Carolina, Ivalas returned to perform in the C-2
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Davidson College concert series in February of 2022. They also received the grand prize at the 2022 Coltman Music Competition in Austin, TX. In the spring of 2022, Ivalas had the opportunity to perform in Community Concerts at Second in Baltimore, MD. Their 2022 summer season included residencies at the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, Madeline Island Chamber Music and Music in the Vineyards in Napa Valley, CA. The members of the Ivalas Quartet have a shared dedication to their roles as educators. Through the Sphinx Organization, Ivalas has presented educational programming in the Metro Detroit area with an emphasis on community engagement in schools with Black and Latinx communities. In Colorado, they have developed a partnership with El Sistema Colorado and have been a part of the Aspen Music Festival Musical Connections program. The quartet was in residence at the University of Northern Iowa in early 2020 and at the University of Central Arkansas in the fall of 2021. Ivalas would like to extend a special thank you to the following organizations and individuals for their generous support of the quartet’s endeavors through travel funding and scholarships: The Takács Society, The University of Colorado Boulder, The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Center Stage Strings, the Sphinx Organization, EXCEL, the Mandell Collection of Southern California, Maurice Binkow and Freyja Harris at the SMTD Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
ENJOYED THIS PERFORMANCE? YOU MIGHT LIKE: Takács Quartet
4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023 7:30 p.m., Monday Jan. 9, 2023 Streaming Jan. 8-16 Tickets start at $20 for digital streaming and $37 for in-person seats at cupresents.org The Grammy-winning Takács Quartet has moved audiences and sold out halls at CU Boulder for more than three decades and counting. The group’s powerfully compelling dynamic has proven time and again that Takács members are “matchless, their supreme artistry manifest at every level.” —The Guardian
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4 p.m., Sunday, March 12, 2023 7:30 p.m., Monday March 13, 2023 Streaming March 12-20 Tickets start at $20 for digital streaming and $37 for in-person seats at cupresents.org The Grammy-winning Takács Quartet has moved audiences and sold out halls at CU Boulder for more than three decades and counting. The group’s powerfully compelling dynamic has proven time and again that Takács members are “matchless, their supreme artistry manifest at every level.” —The Guardian
ENJOYED THIS PERFORMANCE? YOU MIGHT LIKE: Cendrillon
An opera by Jules Massenet 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 17, 2023 2 p.m., Sunday, March 19, 2023 Presented by Eklund Opera Tickets start at $15 at cupresents.org Massenet’s wistful interpretation of the classic “Cinderella” fairy tale is opulent, romantic and full of grace. Sung in French with English supertitles.
Jupiter Ensemble with Lea Desandre All Vivaldi
7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 22, 2023 Presented by the Artist Series Tickets start at $18 at cupresents.org Passionate, timeless, virtuosic. The Jupiter Ensemble, with mezzo soprano Lea Desandre, presents a recital celebrating iconic baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. Highlighting his lesser known—but no less spectacular—works, this program features lush arrangements for voice and sparkling concertos for lute and cello in a tribute to Vivaldi’s enduring vitality.
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Ephrat Asherie Dance’s Odeon finds common roots in diverse cultural cues By Adam Goldstein
An entire world of cultural and musical cues drives the underground dance community in New York City. Odeon, Ephrat Asherie Dance’s original work bound for the Macky Auditorium in November, seeks to illustrate the depth and diversity of that scene, as it combines storied AfroBrazilian rhythms and sounds with contemporary hip-hop, house, vogue and other choreography styles that are part of the current lexicon of street and club dancers in New York.
elements. The choreography is doing that too, finding common ground between many dance styles through their shared West African roots,” says choreographer Ephrat Asherie. “There’s the idea in this piece that the music is evoking all of these dances, and that they already exist in our lives as club dancers, as part of New York City’s nightlife.”
The piece, which debuted at the Doris Duke Theatre in 2018, features music by Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, an artist whose work fuses 20th century European Romantic music with choro, samba and other Afro-Brazilian musical genres. A collaboration between sister and brother team Ephrat and Ehud Asherie (choreographer and musical director respectively), Odeon seeks to find a synthesis through movement, a fusion that illustrates common roots and shared artistic goals.
A quartet playing upright bass, piano and a wide array of Brazilian percussion instruments brings Nazareth’s music to life for Odeon, while an ensemble of six dancers performs the ambitious choreography. Even though that choreography spotlights contemporary styles and innovations, it also seeks to spell out common ties to the music that made Nazareth’s compositions so unique. Nazareth layers European musical conventions with African and Brazilian rhythms and harmonies, and the choreography in Odeon layers multiple movement styles from New York City’s underground dance scene, connecting them to their origins.
“There’s a lot of layering in Nazareth’s music, putting together Brazilian rhythms, European melodies and other
“We’re exploring contemporary club dances as part of the continuum of dances from the African diaspora,”
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Asherie says. “The music and the movement in this work are a symbiotic thing, because of those shared roots.” Odeon aims to reveal new features of a wide array of contemporary street and club dances by “remixing them, picking them apart and challenging them to inhabit unfamiliar spatial and choreographic contexts.” The piece works to challenge old conceptions and reveal new artistic through-lines, all the while inviting the audience into a wholly unique world of music and dance. “That’s the hope, that no matter where you are, in terms of intersecting with this work, there’s something here to make you feel inspired and makes you feel like you want to ask questions,” Asherie says. “It’s what makes art so essential.”
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TikTok has become a go-to platform for discovering new music. The video sharing app was released in the U.S. in 2016 and rose to fame during the pandemic when young adults were quarantined and hungry for content. Among TikTok’s now 1 billion monthly active users, there is an entire music industry—where users preview albums to gauge consumer interest, create trends to new songs and even pay influencers to market those songs. Many of today’s famous musicians started their careers on the app, including Olivia Rodridgo, Lil Nas X and Dove Cameron. While TikTok might create opportunities for musicians, some artists, including Halsey, Charlie XCX and Charlie Puth have complained that their labels are forcing them to heavily promote their music on TikTok before releasing a song, interfering with their artistic integrity. 24
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Mike Barnett is a composer, drummer, recording artist, record producer, author and instructor of music theory and composition in the College of Music. CU Boulder Today spoke with Barnett about the ways TikTok has changed the music industry … for better and for worse.
How do artists promote their music on TikTok? Artists can effectively promote on TikTok in part by doing the things that the app’s algorithms prefer in order to reach more users. Common strategies to build a fanbase on TikTok include using specific hashtags to target certain communities, creating challenges and contests, working with established influencers and creating content around what’s currently trending, just to name a few. TikTok is basically an appwhere musicians work to add to their fanbase who hopefully will then go to other (monetized) apps to stream their music, like Spotify or YouTube. The irony is: All social media platforms are vying for users’ attention, because the amount of time users spend on an app drives up the ad revenues and income for that site. In other words, attention is the commodity. It’s pretty bizarre, actually.
Why are recording labels urging artists to use TikTok as a promotional tool? Record labels used to be far more involved in the development and promotion of artists. Social media has allowed them to pass the buck and put much of the burden of promotion onto the artists themselves. Most labels (major or indie) won’t even think about signing an artist who doesn’t already have big numbers on their social and streaming platforms. Since the vast majority of consumers don’t actually “buy” music anymore, record labels have had to shift their business practices to survive in the digital age. The commodity used to be vinyl, CDs and tapes—now it’s the user’s attention. The money that comes back to labels and artists from streaming is positively miniscule by comparison to physical sales. What modern consumers and fans of music may not know is that companies such as Spotify, TikTok, etc., are not music companies, they’re technology companies. They make their money from ad revenues and subscriptions not recorded music. While labels have always gotten a bad rap for taking the lion’s share of the profits from record sales, the truth is, musicians were far, far better off with the old model because they received more of the money that their music generated. Companies like Spotify are beginning to feature tools that help support the process of creating new recorded music, but it pales in comparison to how record labels used to invest in new talent.
How does TikTok encourage audiences to engage with music in ways that other platforms don’t? There are tools on TikTok that make it easy to do things like create duets and collaborations, as well as linking in other platforms where musicians house their singles and albums. On a deeper level, TikTok users seem to be embracing authenticity—real people creating content for the purpose of entertaining one another. Many musicians will let fans “backstage” by telling their band’s stories, letting folks see their creative processes and so forth. Authenticity has been a core ethos in many forms of popular music since at least the early rock and roll era, and TikTok users seem to connect to that in a way that runs counter to other social platforms, where users tend to put up false fronts.
Does this shift in the industry benefit or harm musicians’ artistic integrity? I think anything that devours time that could be spent on developing one’s musical craft is detrimental to music in the bigger picture. Whether one is an established artist or not, the modern music industry virtually demands that musicians wear all hats: creating and performing their music, engineering and producing recordings, marketing, booking tours and managing their social media presence across multiple platforms. All of these things rob musicians of time that could be spent making music and becoming better at their craft. My students often ask me: “Why does today’s music suck?!” While I don’t necessarily agree with that, it is true that musicians have to spend far more of their precious time on things apart from actual music making to build their careers.
How has TikTok provided a platform for more novice artists to break into the industry? Popular music is by definition democratic. If people don’t like something, they won’t invest their time and/or money in it. In other words, they won’t give it their vote. Popular music is supported by the masses not the aristocracy. That said, there is no such thing as an even playing field, especially in the virtual world. There are all kinds of problems with algorithms and biases, and social media sites in general tend to encourage and reward “groupthink” over free thought.
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Annual contributions provide essential support for the Artist Series, Eklund Opera and Takács Quartet. With these gifts, donors support concert performances, opera productions, faculty recitals, guest artist appearances, the Takács Quartet residency and many other vital projects. Each contributor listed here helped make these performances possible. We are profoundly grateful for the generosity of our donors. If you would like to join our community of supporters, please contact our Advancement team at 303-492-3054 or visit cupresents.org/giving. Annual support listed below consists of all gifts of $100+ made to the Artist Series, Eklund Opera and Takács Quartet between Oct. 1, 2021 and Sept. 31, 2022. It is our intention to acknowledge each donor’s generosity as accurately as possible. Please contact Development Assistant Rachelle Dizon to address omissions, misspellings or other inaccuracies at rachelle.dizon@colorado.edu. Thank you!
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