Tag: Hamel Music Center

A perfect storm

How students teamed up with professors from Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Mead Witter School of Music to transform Wisconsin weather into musical performance.  By Julia Walkowicz, Division of the Arts When Molly McKellar saw an email inviting students to turn Wisconsin weather data into composed music, the opportunity felt too perfect to pass up.  …

A New Spin on Centuries-Old Music

From post-Soviet Siberia to Baroque castles to the Hamel Music Center in Madison, Taya König-Tarasevich is putting her futuristic touch on historical performance.   By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts Imagine you are inside a German castle, surrounded by the renowned, world-class musicians of Verità Baroque. They don’t stand apart on a stage; instead, they form a circle …