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The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards fosters original and imaginative approaches to the performance and study of keyboard instruments, their technological underpinnings, their intersections with other arts, and their participation in the global currents of cultural and social history.
A reflective piece in The Cornell Daily Sun captures a one-of-a-kind concert from the "Keyboard Energies" symposium, where 13 performers explored the electrification of keyboard sound through classical, contemporary, and improvised works.
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Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards receives a gift that will secure the future of its museum-quality holdings, as well as a rich program of concerts, festivals and educational offerings. Read the full article in the Cornell Chronicle.
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Join us on May 7-8 for the presentation, workshops, and discussion on the historical and contemporary impact of the commedia dell’arte tradition by Puerto Rican director, actor, educator, mask-maker, deviser and artivist Robi Arce-Martínez.
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Melodic ornamentation in the music of Mozart and Chopin and the practice of preluding — in the final salon of the semester with CCHK Visiting Fellow.
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The final organ midday break, the closure of 2024-25 season at Cornell, by the University Organist Annette Richards.
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Guest organist Jeffrey Snedeker brings the mystical and transcendent works by 20th-century French organists Charles Tournemire, Olivier Messiaen and Maurice Duruflé.
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Intertwined histories of keyboard instruments, experimentation, and electricity across 20th-century New York State come together in scholarship and performance.
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Third-annual celebration of Earth Day at the Baroque Organ with turned-off electric blower. Performers include David Yearsley, Annette Richards and students in this year’s organ class.
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By Joshua Biggs
DMA candidate Joshua Biggs discusses the creation of a digital library of samples drawn from the CCHK’s collection.
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