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  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

Words

Refugee Stories from Odesa, Ukraine

Translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

 

Two Short Stories

Naomi Leites

Five Poems

Ziyi Wu

Student Book Reviews from Prof Beth Denisch’s class: Music, Gender and Society

Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine

Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky

Bucha Spring

Ksenia Rychtycka

Microcosmos and Macrocosmos

Louis C. Stewart

Music

Peter Pan is Rock & Roll: Are Aging Musicians Still Relevant?

Paul Robert Mullen

We, by nature, have definite expectations of those a certain age. Cynical, I guess, but realistic. I was only walking down the main drag of my home town this morning – a quaint seaside town in north-west England – surveying the behavior of a largely retired population strolling at leisure. They were window shopping, gazing at clouds from wooden benches covered in memorial plaques, stroking dogs that had become their motive for survival. Waiting for death, I guess, in the most dignified manner. People in their late-sixties, seventies, eighties. You can spot them a mile off. They wear the fatigue of stacked up decades in their stoop, their doddering shuffles, their swollen bellies, receding hairlines, frail shoulders, high-blood-pressured cheeks. In their obsolete clothing. Their palpable surrender to antiquity. Curved spines held up by wooden canes. They know they’re old and …

Letter for Berklee

Steve Vai

Where Is Jazz Going?: Reissues, Jazz Industry, and the Future of Jazz

Jiwon Kwon

Sustaining Notes: From Grammy Award Winner Brazilian Singer Luciana Souza To Berklee Students

Luciana Souza

A Beautiful View from the Berklee Bridge, Flowing with Music, Energy, and Glimpses of a Fruitful Future

A Reflection by Dr. Bill Banfield

Art

The Musician’s Keen Eye: Photographs with Notes

by Dave Hollender

 

Polynesian Visual Art

Tevita Latu & Taniela Petelo

Why this is not a pipe

Monica Fernandez

Mexico: A Surrealist Country.

Monica Fernandez

Photos by Yizhak Carmona

The Garden@FUSION

Film

What Big Teeth You Have

Raven Baksh

Stuck Between Stations: Reflections on The Eclipse & In Bruges

Sean Brennan

Triloka—Three Realms

Composed by Bruno Råberg

Purple Money

Emily Estefan

Berklee Student Screenplays

Rub Meat

Michael Heyman, PhD, DDS, SFPS. The Fizzbert P. Pinkbottom Endowed Chair of Nonsense at Berklee College of Music (FPPECNBCM) at a Berklee Poetry Slam

Features

Music, Gender, and Society: Outstanding Student Essays

Beth Denisch

Capturing Berklee’s Stories: The Berklee Oral History Project

Sofía Becerra-Licha, Archivist, Berklee Archives

Exploring New Teaching Techniques with Case Studies

Alexandre Perrin (Valencia)

Contests

Composition Department & FUSION Poetry Contest Winner

Student Fiction Contest Winners: 3 Stories

1st Place, The Umbrellas: Emmanuel Choi

Composition Department & FUSION Poetry Contest Winner

Archives

BERKLEE COMMUNITY

FUSION Vol 4

POETRY

Interviews

Events

Maeve Gilchrist

an Morrigan

Irish Step: Holland Raper

FUSION, Berklee’s global arts magazine, publishes writing in all genres, photography, video, and music by students, faculty, staff, and alumni from across the U.S. and our international communities. We feature distinguished guest artists, including three U.S. Poet Laureates, a U.K. Poet Laureate, National Book Award finalists, and writers whose awards include NEA, NEH, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowships, a PEN Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.