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READ: Our American Mavericks: Break the Rules series—based on the work of Music Humanities students at Columbia University—concludes with Helen Chen, who uses John Cage's embrace of chance operations combined with the words of T.S. Eliot to linguistically experiment with her increasingly bewildered friends.
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READ | LISTEN: As part of our ongoing American Mavericks: Break the Rules series, featuring students from the Music Humanities class at Columbia University, classmates Sophie Kuznetzov and Jorge Betanzos juxtapose clichéd words of love with the Periodic Table of Elements to the tune of Andrew Bird's "Chorus of the Swan."
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READ | LISTEN: Our American Mavericks: Break the Rules series by Columbia University's Music Humanities students continues with Kellie Gergoudis's Moonlight Montage—a mash-up of Beethoven, Moonstruck, and Romeo and Juliet.
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READ | LISTEN: In our continuing American Mavericks: Break the Rules series, we present the work of Columbia University Music Humanities students Nidale Zouhir and Eva Alba, who have used the disparate concerns of scientists Richard Feynman and Carl Sagan, and author Dave Eggers to create a work inspired by the godfather of American mavericks, Charles Ives.
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READ | PHOTOS: Our series about composers featured in a new American Mavericks exhibit at the Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall continues with Henry Cowell—the first American musician to embrace the idea that "serious" music could exist outside Western music.
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