Arts & Culture

Translation expert Peter Constantine consults a Greek dictionary from the collection of the Department of Literatures, Cultures, & Languages. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

Found in Translation

Peter Constantine, director of UConn's Literary Translation Program, says translation opens up the windows and doors to the world.

Michael Bradford, head of the Department of Dramatic Arts in the School of Fine Arts and artistic director of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Michael Bradford’s ‘Brainpower Job’

An alum's highly unlikely path to heading UConn’s dramatic arts department.

A student stands outside the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

UConn Inks Agreement with Wadsworth Atheneum

Under the agreement, the Wadsworth Atheneum will provide work space for UConn Hartford students, a seminar room, and faculty offices for use by the three-year graduate program in Arts Administration.

Terrence Mann, artistic director of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre's Nutmeg Summer Series, will oversee three musicals for CRT this year, directing one, Jesus Christ Superstar, and playing the lead in Sweeney Todd. (Peter Morenus/UConn File Photo)

Musical ‘Disaster’ Opens Nutmeg Summer Series

Artistic director Terrence Mann discusses this year's Nutmeg Summer Series, which opens June 7.

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Singing in Hallowed Halls

Travel to Italy and Austria with the UConn Concert Choir.

A girl listens to music via headphones. (Pixabay Photo)

Overcoming Bias About Music Takes Work

A new study has found that simply being told a performer is a professional or a student changes the way the brain responds to music, and it takes a deliberate effort to overcome this bias.

A model car Richard Kochanek designed, carved from wood, and painted with dozens of coats as a teenager. He won an award for it from General Motors.

Retired Business Professor Resumes Pursuit of Art

Through many years of teaching accounting, much-loved professor Dick Kochanek never forgot his teenage dream of being an artist.

Eric Rice leads the Collegium Musicum at San Marco. (Jamie Spillane/UConn Photo)

UConn Choirs: Singing Where the Songs Were Created

The UConn Choirs spent nine days in Austria and Italy, including memorable performances in Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart, and under Michelangelo’s most famous painting, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Roushan Ahmed, a senior history major and member of the Bangladesh Students Association, speaks to students at their booth in the Student Union Ballroom on March 25, 2018. (Garrett Spahn '18 (CLAS)/UConn Photo)

Celebrating Cultures on Campus

Worldfest is an annual event celebrating the international student community at UConn.

Angelina Gadeliya, assistant professor-in-residence and director of keyboard studies, tests grand pianos at the Steinway & Sons factory in Queens, New York, last October. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Let Them Play Steinways!

UConn students will not just be playing pianos, they will be playing Steinways! That’s thanks to generous donors who are purchasing Steinways with the goal of UConn joining the elite ranks of all-Steinway institutions.