Embracing DEI: Keystone of the universal musician
In this edition of the Dean’s Downbeat, Dean John Davis doubles down on the College of Music’s commitment to championing diversity, equity and inclusion. “I’m convinced that by embracing DEI as integral to our universal musician mission, we not only achieve flexible, interdisciplinary career options for our graduates, but also expand the artistic landscape and cultivate a community of curious, continuous learners who challenge biases, question assumptions and engage with diverse perspectives—and who navigate nuance and complexity with openness, understanding and empathy.” MORE
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a regular communiqué from Dean John Davis.
CU Boulder jazzes up graduation tradition (April 30, 2024, Daily Camera)
CU Boulder’s College of Music has created three new versions of the traditional 1901 Pomp & Circumstance theme to play at graduation—in Latin jazz, New Orleans funk and big band swing styles. John Gunther, director of the Thompson Jazz Studies Program, and John Davis, dean of the College of Music, discuss the project.
CU Boulder to begin exploring 1,400 boxes of the Glenn Miller archive (April 30, 2024, Daily Camera)
CU Boulder announced it will begin unlocking the Glenn Miller archive, thanks to donor support. “Glenn Miller’s story is more than a musical story,” says Austin Okigbo, interim director of CU Boulder’s American Music Research Center. “His is also the American story…”
CU Boulder event to recreate Grateful Dead concert light show (April 24, 2024, Daily Camera)
Celebrate the Grateful Dead and learn about the band’s history in Boulder, including a recreated light show with original assets from the band’s concert at the university in 1969. “We’re going to be able to do a demonstration of the original technology of the ’60s and ’70s,” says College of Music alumnus and music theory lecturer Micheal Sebulsky.