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WRR101 Focus on the Arts: SMU’s commitment to cultivating tomorrow’s composers, today

The Emerging Sounds concert, presented by Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts, has been described as a vibrant representation of what SMU composition students have to offer. The program is entirely student-run and seeks to utilize novel instrumentations and connect those from diverse artistic backgrounds throughout Meadows. In this interview with SMU’s Kaitlin Kleinau, we learn more about this community-building event, which serves as a launching pad for the student composers’ careers.

WRR101 Focus on the Arts: A Puccini Double Bill with SMU’s Meadows Lyric Theatre

“I think what makes these works still so viable today is that Puccini had this amazing ability to get to the heart of the human condition,” says Michael Scarola, Interim Director of SMU’s Meadows Lyric Theatre, referencing the two enduring operatic masterpieces they’ll perform February 15-18, 2024. In this feature with WRR’s Amy Bishop, Scarola… Read more »