Durgin Hall and Beyond
UMass Lowell’s Durgin Hall is the creative home for hundreds of musicians. Please enjoy the various projects collected here. You can select from our categories above, or select a more specific tag from the footer.
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UML Chamber Singers – “The Road Home” by Stephen Paulus
“After wind, after rain, when the dark is done / As I wake from a dream in the gold of day / Through the air there’s a calling from far away / There’s a voice I can hear that will lead me home.” The UMass Lowell Chamber Singers recorded this and a number of other works at the end of the Spring 2021 semester in two approved outdoor recording sessions. Students that opted to participate virtually also submitted tracks and were added into the mix later.
Kyle Kashiwabara – M&A 4 Capstone
Performed by Kyle Kashiwabara, Justin Hahn, and Kamryn Richard.
An abridged summation of the main theoretical subjects of the M&A sequence.
Colin Silva – Elegy to The Drunkard
Colin Silva, Music Performance, 2023
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We’d Rather Be With You, feat. UML Faculty Funk Band
“We’d Rather be with You” is a fun, parody-style reworking of “I’d Rather be with You” by funk legend Bootsy Collins, performed by the UMass Lowell Socially Distanced Faculty Funk Band and dedicated to our students during the pandemic. The band consists of 9 of our music faculty, each of whom recorded their own parts which were then assembled and mixed by Dr. John Shirley (of Sound Recording Technology and Composition for New Media). Dr. Shirley also shot and edited the video. The project was realized over the course of late May and June.
UML University Choir – “The Blue Bird” – Stanford
The UML University Choir performs Charles Villiers Stanford’s “The Blue Bird” in approved outdoor recordings in April 2021. Featuring soprano soloist Jailene Velazquez, Music Studies ’23.
Contemporary Electronic Ensemble – 12/5/2020 – Live on Twitch
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Originally broadcast on Twitch.tv/cee_stream
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Studio II Jazz Band Concert Spring 1980 Fred Buda Director
Studio II Jazz Band Concert Spring 1980 Part I
A Virtual Conference Presentation by Gena Greher and Savannah Marshall
Professor Gena Greher and Instructor Savannah Marshall (UML ’13, ‘16) presented at one of the ISME 2020 Community Music Pre-Conference Seminars on July 14, 2020. The ISME Commission for Community Music Activity (CMA) has demonstrated strong leadership in the music education field with its longstanding commitment to the principles of inclusivity, equity, and hospitality, and their application in practice. Their members are critically conscious music facilitators and researchers, frequently working in complex social settings and always at the forefront of discussions around inclusive musical practices and equitable access.
Lejos de Ti – Chamber Singers
The Umass Lowell Chamber Singers, Fall 2020, under the direction of Jonathan Richter, perform Manuel Ponce’s Lejos de Ti, arranged by UML Alumni Chris Rubén Winters. Students recorded audio tracks into Soundtrap, a web based DAW, and then files were exported and mixed in Garageband by Mark Andrews.