PLOrk performs 'A Horde of Premieres and Pianos'

By Evelyn Tu on Aug. 27, 2012, noon

The Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) performed seven new works in a show titled "A Horde of Premieres and Pianos" earlier this year.

Over the seven years since its founding, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) has inspired the formation of laptop orchestras around the world and has performed at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York City. This spring, PLOrk returned to Princeton's Richardson Auditorium to perform seven new works in a show titled "A Horde of Premieres and Pianos."

Ai Weiwei sculpture installation time-lapse video .

Time-lapse images show the work involved in setting up the "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" sculptures outside Robertson Hall.

Sideband to play at Arts Council of Princeton .

Sideband, an offshoot of Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) will perform works by graduate student 'Sidebandits' and Daniel Trueman, professor of music, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon St. Free admission.

'Welcome to My Dorm!' .

Four Princeton students give an insider's tour of their dorms.

Princeton music course debuts through online learning platform Kadenze .

Princeton University is expanding its online course offerings through Kadenze, an online learning platform specifically created to support the arts and creative technologies. On this platform, Princeton Professor of Music Daniel Trueman will offer the course "Reinventing the Piano," in which students will explore a new instrument called the Prepared Digital Piano.

Video feature: Celebrating choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Robert Rauschenberg .

Silas Riener, a 2006 Princeton alumnus and a former member of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, has returned to campus to work with students in the dance program at the Lewis Center of the Arts on two performance projects that celebrate the mid-20th-century collaboration of dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Robert Rauschenberg.

Video feature: Princeton's Glee Club .

The Princeton University Glee Club, which performs a repertoire of sacred and secular choral music from the Renaissance to the present day, allows students with a wide range of nationalities, majors and skills to participate in a shared passion — singing. In a video about the Glee Club, 89 students gathered one warm April afternoon to rehearse "Sednalo e Djore Dos," a Bulgarian folk song that tells the story of an outgoing girl trying to get the attention of a shy boy.