Class of 2021 Selects

About the Playlist

June 10, 2021

What are the “kids” listening to these days? In this week’s Collective Listening Project, we celebrate the Department of Music’s incredible senior class of majors and certificate students and share in the music that they have most often turned to during their four years on campus. The playlist features both old favorites and new discoveries that they have made in recent years and encompasses a wonderfully diverse range of music. We continue to learn so much from their curiosity and passion and have no doubt that their selections will make you smile, too.

“My favorite music? Pick a letter. You can get a long way with Radiohead, Randy Newman, and Ray Charles—all without leaving R.” —Senior Noah Altshuler

Noah Altshuler
STEPHEN SONDHEIM “Please Hello” from Pacific Overtures

TJ Li
GAETANO DONIZETTI “Una furtiva lagrima” (“A furtive tear”) from L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love)

Linus Wang
ANTON BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major (“Romantic”)
ROBERT SCHUMANN Konzertstück in F Major for Four Horns and Orchestra, Op. 86

Mariana Corichi Gomez
JOSÉ PABLO MONCAYO “Huapango” (“On top of wood”)

Benjamin Alessio
LIONEL LOUEKE “Sleepless Night”

Alexandra Lee Rice
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60
ROBERT SCHUMANN Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22

Rosamond van Wingerden
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV from Sadko (opera, 1898)
     A skaly groznyje drab’atsa s r’ovem volny (“Song of the Varangian Guest”)
     Ni sh’est’ almazaf f kamnnyh pisherah (“Song of the Indian Guest”)
     Gorat kamennyj, garadam fsem mat’ (“Two Songs of the Venetian Guest”)

Neel Nagarajan
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Overture from Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe, K. 196 (“The Pretend Garden-Girl“)

Stella Sokolowski
STEVIE WONDER “Overjoyed”
STEVE MORSE “Night Meets Light” (Dixie Dregs)
BJÖRK GUDMUNDSÓTTIR “Army of Me”
JULIAN LAGE “Nocturne”

Kirsten Keels
CATHY DENNIS, ROB DAVIS “Can’t Get You out of My Head” (Kylie Minogue)
DOLLY PARTON “9 to 5”
LOUIE VEGA “Deep inside” (Hardrive)
EYED PILSEUNG BLACK, JEON GOON “Fancy” (TWICE)
ANGEL RIVERA “Ven Bailalo” (Angel Y Khriz)