Mariachi Los Tigres brings new music, cultural connection to campus
Hector Cueva-Becerra ’26 had never played an instrument before his sophomore year at Princeton.
Use the fields below to perform an advanced search of The Princetonian's archives. This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query. You can also try a Basic search
14 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
Hector Cueva-Becerra ’26 had never played an instrument before his sophomore year at Princeton.
Mitsuko Uchida is one of the most prominent pianists of the 21st century, most well-known for her interpretations of Mozart and Schubert. Recently, she was a 2023 Grammy Nominee for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Biss was a guest lecturer at the New England Conservatory of Music and performed a Tiny Desk Concert on NPR in 2020. The two pianists serve as Artistic Directors at the Marlboro Music School and Festival.
As a member of the fall semester sequence, I joined Princeton’s Western Humanities (HUM) Sequence class trip to the opera “La Forza Del Destino” last Friday, the final performance of the 2023–2024 season.
“Film is the best artistic medium. It combines every aspect of art. It’s visual. It’s audible. But at its core, it’s human,” said Connor Odom ’26. Odom first got into film in fifth grade, when he acted in a small role in a short film. He transferred to Princeton in fall of 2022, after working for seven years full-time in the videography and film industry.
The eminent French pianist Hélène Grimaud performed a classic combination of “B” composers — Beethoven, Brahms, and Bach (arranged by a slightly less famous B, Busoni) — in a sold-out Richardson Auditorium at her Princeton University Concert series debut on January 24.
The Mahler Chamber Orchestra, a world-renowned nomadic ensemble known for performing everything from Viennese classical and early Romantic periods to contemporary works, hosted four classical concerts from January 18 to 21 during Wintersession. The audience could move around, over, under, and even through the musicians, thanks to virtual reality. This was the North American premiere of the concert experience, which was pre-recorded in two historic Berlin churches over the span of three years. The event was sponsored by Princeton University Concerts (PUC).
The trope that “classical music is boring” often comes from those outside of the performance field. So, it might come as a surprise that this phrase was the title of a Wintersession workshop held on Jan. 18 by former professional concert pianist Noah Simon, a senior research specialist with the Industrial Relations Section in the Department of Economics.
Over two hours in Robertson Hall on a snowy winter afternoon, 68 students learned about and sampled six European wines: Vinho Verde from Portugal, Gruner Veltliner in Austria, Gewurztraminer from Germany, Garnacha from Spain, Bordeaux blend from France, and Chianti from Italy.
“Half the class is not from Practical Ethics,” someone said behind me as I sat down in the second row of a nearly full McCosh 10. They were not wrong — I, like many, had come to see Peter Singer, the 24-year Ira Decamp Professor of Bioethics, in his last lecture of his Princeton teaching career.
As the tallest and shortest guys, respectively, in the Princeton Footnotes, Rupert Peacock ’24 and Koda Gursoy ’26 might not have much in common at first glance. But what brings the two singers together is their unconventional childhood performance careers.
Under golden lights, the crisp opening notes of “I See the Light” reverberate in a full Richardson Auditorium — starting from one piano, and ending with five concert grand Steinways. For the next hour and a half, the Princeton Pianists Ensemble (PPE) enraptured, entertained, and elated both classical and pop fanatics in the audience with music from Mozart to Super Mario Bros.
“Not coming straight from high school, I have different life experiences of interacting more with the ‘real world,’ like having a job and interacting with so many different types of people of different ages and backgrounds in community college,” said Ixtle Montuffar ’27, a transfer student from the Community College of Baltimore County.
On the night of Oct. 26, millions of fans flocked to hear the opening notes of Taylor Swift’s newest release: “1989 (Taylor’s Version).” The album crashed both the Spotify platform and global records, garnering upwards of 180 million first-day streams on Spotify alone. Like many fans, we thought that the album was the rebirth of a snazzy, stunning pop “wonderland.”
This year, graduate students have sought to unionize, creating a new body to represent their interests. This would serve as an alternative to an older body, the Graduate Student Government (GSG). From teaching loads to health insurance and international student opportunities, the GSG has had a number of missions since its foundation in 1989. Executive board members noted that graduate students’ interests and social environments are often overlooked by the University, making the GSG’s goal critical.