music
March 1, 2006
Winning chord
Grant Alden, '82, knew there was a market for the kind of country music Nashville wasn't producing. To appeal to that audience, he co-founded the magazine No Depression.
March 1, 2005
Mystery mansion
Once upon a time, the UW president lived right on the campus grounds. The president’s house sat at the end of what would become the University’s quadrangle, the site of today’s Music Building.
June 1, 2003
Rag to riches
From ragtime ditties to grand opera, alumnus of the year William Bolcom has mixed pop tunes with classical music to become one of America's greatest living composers.
September 1, 2001
Inspiration on a whim
On a whim, Lester J. Wilson, who enrolled at the University of Washington in 1909, wrote "Bow Down to Washington."
December 1, 2000
Stepping out
It isn't just her personality that makes Hannah Wiley ideally suited to run the UW's summer arts festival. It's her choices in the earlier chapters of her life.
June 1, 2000
Roy Cummings dies at 59
Roy Cummings, '61, was a trumpet and jazz-studies instructor at the UW School of Music.
December 1, 1996
Where musical minds met
In the 1980s, the UW brought together many individuals who would go on to music stardom.
When Seattle’s grunge scene exploded, you had to be in the know
Many UW students were part of the grunge music scene from its beginning, and the campus radio station KCMU played a crucial role in its formation.
December 1, 1995
Don Pierce, ’39, is one of country music’s founding fathers
Don Pierce has owned several record companies and produced the first recordings of stars such as George Jones and Willie Nelson.
June 1, 1995
The real McCabe
She made her Carnegie Hall debut in her 20s, but UW alumna Robin McCabe faces her greatest challenge today—running the School of Music.
September 1, 1994
Bolcom returns
Bolcom, '58, returned to the UW for a two-week residency with his wife, noted mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
March 1, 1992
Song for the roses
Jack Gladstone, '82 includes "Pasadena Free For All" among 15 songs in his second album entitled "In the Shadow of Mt. Lassen."
September 1, 1990
Maestro from the majors
A respected European conductor says goodbye to the concert hall to join the UW School of Music.