Arts & Culture

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.

(Submitted Photo)

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.

The Concert Choir sings at the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Together with the Womens Choir and Collegium Musicum, the group spent nine days over Spring Break participating in the American Celebration of Music in Austria and Italy.

UConn Voices Serenade Michelangelo’s Most Famous Painting

The Concert Choir and other UConn music groups spent nine days over Spring Break performing in the American Celebration of Music in Austria and Italy.

(Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

A Steinway School

Tour the famed Steinway & Sons piano factory to learn how UConn is becoming a "Steinway school," and what that means for the School of Fine Arts.

Gospel choir. (Getty Images)

African Rhythms, Ideas of Sin, and the Hammond Organ: Gospel Music’s Evolution

The melding of African rhythmic ideas with Western musical ideas laid the foundation for a genre of African-American music, in particular spirituals and, later, gospel songs, writes UConn's Robert Stephens.