The Music at Pitt Podcast
Welcome to The Music at Pitt Podcast. Produced and hosted by Philip Thompson, the podcast features insightful conversation with University of Pittsburgh Department of Music faculty, students, and alumni on any aspect of music you can imagine and probably some you haven't.
Episodes
9 episodes
Emma Lebo Explores New Discipline Music
The Music at Pitt Podcast has been on hiatus while Pitt has been transitioning to remote learning, but we’re back and recording from the Lawrenceville Offices of the Department of Music (aka my home studio) and conducting interviews over zoom. ...
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21:19
Award Winning Composer Wang Xinyang
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is composition and theory doctoral candidate Wang Xinyang. Born in Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province, China, Wang Xinyang is a composer of classical music, currently based in Pittsburgh. He...
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Episode 2
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25:11
Larissa Irizarry on Adriana Mater, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Janelle Monáe
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is musicology doctoral student Larissa Irizarry. Larissa is receiving significant recognition for her research into 21st-century opera and 1970s rock where she explores depictions of gende...
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Episode 3
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29:20
Lily Turner on Teaching a Machine to Play Like Mark O'Connor
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Lily Turner, a freshly minted Pitt graduate from Blacksburg, Virginia. As a student at Pitt she was a double major in Computer Science and Music, specifically pursuing the Global and Po...
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Episode 4
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18:55
Composer Devon Tipp Discusses Their Recent Work
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt podcast is Devon Tipp. A PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, Tipp’s music draws influence from their Japanese and Eastern European roots, experiences as a jeweler and painter, and studi...
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Episode 5
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31:00
James P. Cassaro on the Music Library's Grammy Museum Grant
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Jim Cassaro, Head of the Theodore M. Finney Music Library and Professor of Music. Jim is a librarian-musicologist who specializes in seventeenth-century French music, with a particular ...
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Episode 6
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26:21
A Conversation with Professor of Music, Emeritus Deane Root - Part 1
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is Deane Root, the music department’s newest Professor, Emeritus. Deane recently retired from more jobs than most of us hold in a lifetime, including being the Director of the Center for A...
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Episode 7
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26:01
A Conversation with Professor of Music Emeritus Deane Root - Part 2
In this episode we present part two of our conversation with Professor of Music, Emeritus Deane Root. For part 2 we discuss the power of community, from coping with the trauma of the Tree of Life shooting to creating a more inclusive environmen...
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Episode 8
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23:08
Mariam Shalaby on Qur'anic Recitation Among Pittsburgh Egyptian Muslims
Our guest for this episode of the Music at Pitt Podcast is recent graduate Mariam Shalaby. Mariam graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2018 with a BPhil in Music through the Honors College and Department of Music and a BS in Natural S...
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Episode 9
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