Oberlin Blogs

A semi-demi-hemi-comprehensive guide to College music opportunities.

Second semester senior thoughts and spoilers for E.B. White books.

There are a variety of questions tour guides get from prospective students applying to the college, but who are interested in pursuing music through the conservatory, but they all come down to the same thing: how involved can I be in the conservatory as a college student?

Thinking that ten years of "pre-professional" training prepares you to choreograph a three-minute contemporary solo is kind of like spending years reading Shakespeare and then being told to whip up a novel with some magical realism.

I realized and then accepted that unmitigated busyness was not equivalent to productivity, but a threat to it. I learned that sometimes even doing something you love is a luxury that you should be prepared to sacrifice when faced with the exigencies of the bigger picture.

Looking for information on Oberlin's a cappella scene? Nothing But Treble is a good place to start.

So yesterday was a pretty big deal. After a few weeks of increased anonymous racism and homophobia on our campus,...

Examining contemporary photography and the changes in my life since I came to Oberlin.

Hint: It's two credits. Hint: It's in the Conservatory. Confession: It's not easy at all.

I was surprised at the level of detail that goes into every inch of the piano. You can see why a good piano costs as much as a car - we spent a few classes repainting the dampers, aligning and glueing new felt to each damper (the shape of the felt changes through different registers of the piano), putting them back into the piano, and fitting them until they perfectly silenced the strings.

It had been at least a year since I had been in this studio though, and I was excited to bring a camera with me.

Through the magic of circus networks and the hard work of our administrators, OCircus! was able to offer heavily-discounted tickets and a free bus ride to Cleveland to Oberlin students who wanted to go see Cirque du Soleil. Of course everyone did.