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A former Monmouth College chemistry professor will return to campus to serve as the school’s president later this year.
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s career has been marked by several firsts: she was the first woman to graduate with a doctorate in composition from Julliard; she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music; and the first female composer to be mentioned in Charles Schulz’s iconic comic strip Peanuts.
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American Joan Tower did not originally intend to become a composer, but at 18 she wrote a piece for a college class and immediately thought, “I can do better”--- and, as she said in 2018, “for the next 60 years, I tried to do better.”
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The complaint filed on behalf of Evan Schmalshof names the county and Nicholas Petitgout, individually and not in his official capacity.
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The university hopes The Western Way will help more students from low-income families in Illinois attend WIU.
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Scottish composer Thea Musgrave once had a dream in which a single clarinet player led the entire orchestra to mutiny--- a dream she realized in her 1967 Concerto for Orchestra.
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