Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese
Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese
Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese
Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese
Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese
Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese
Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese
Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese

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Prose

Erasure

Jennifer Andrews

I think of snow and its properties—how quickly it can change from ice to sleet to rain and back again. How it can smoothdust your face and melt into you, like a hush. Or how, on days it has been dirtied and used, it turns to mud and slush. And I think of my sister. We liked snow. It was one of the few places we were friends. Born both in October, not even a year apart, we were estranged twins. Dressed and coddled and cramped into the other, we fought daily for space and our own identities. We didn’t wear shirts or shoes in the summer, we played Cowboys and Indians with the neighborhood boys, we hunted for frogs and hid them in our babysitter’s bed. We said, poop and fart and damn. Nights held our soft secrets, our …

Liberating Aesthetics: Recapturing the Joy of Art: what I taught over 25 years at Berklee

Wayne Wild

Dottie’s and the Rabbit

Tyler R. Jenkins

The Realities of a Young Woman Immigrating to America

Tiffany Columna

New Creative Nonfiction

Star Power

Creative Nonfiction by Jack Scaife-Elliott

Where Am I

Creative Nonfiction by Lisa Luckenbach

A World Through Her Eyes

Creative Nonfiction by Ailin Ledwidge

Triptych

Creative Nonfiction by Susan Belanich

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Music

The Superpower of Conducting: Women Rise to the Podium

Anna Rakitina, Assistant Conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Anna Rakitina was awarded European Culture Prize 2025

Being а female conductor in today’s music world does not feel too uncommon, though, for sure, it was not always like this. The rise of women in the profession is a relatively recent development and, as with many other leadership and governance activities, most positions have been held by males. In the past this had seemed perfectly natural. Conducting demands many qualities that traditionally were attributed to men rather than women: strong leadership, strict character, unwavering resolve, a cool head, and, last but not least, physical strength. For a long time, all this made conducting suitable (in the eyes of many) almost exclusively the domain of men.

Throughout history, leadership roles were given only to males, and not just in the music field. The gender division applied to politics, military service, aviation, etc. Women faced inequity wherever qualities such as boldness were thought to be needed. There are many women today who work hard to prove their capacity for this work. People struggle for equal opportunities and, step by step, are making gains. In classical music, particularly conducting, female musicians have shown themselves strong enough finally to break through and keep up with males on the stage.
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Berklee Alumni Column #7: Sophie Molkenthin

Joely Cromack-Kluko

A Notion

Shwesmo (Yoel Genin) and Sharon Renold

Teaching Max/MSP in Higher Music Education: Programming as Creative Thinking, Practice, and Pedagogical Strategy

Marta Verde

Berklee Alumni Column #6: Andrew L. Lucas

Joely Cromack-Kluko

Berklee Alumni Column #5: Paulina Romano

Joely Cromack-Kluko

Musings of a 21st-century Composer

Marti Epstein

Adventures in Collaborative Cello Playing (So Far…)

Celia Sieckert

Berklee Alumni Column #4: Natalie Dodge

Joely Cromack-Kluko

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Poetry

String Quartet, <em>poems</em>, an ebook from <em>FUSION Magazine Press</em>

String Quartet, poems, an ebook from FUSION Magazine Press

Pat Pattison

Berklee’s FUSION Magazine is proud to present String Quartet, the first book of poetry by Berklee’s own Pat Pattison. Pat travels this wide world as a lyricist, songwriter, author, and clinician. The poems presented here sound “the music of what happens,” revealing great depths through the same mastery of form found in his lyrics.

man v bear and other poems

Stephanie Elliot

“Stars at Home” and Other Poems

Joey Dalton

The Human Condition and 7 Other Poems

From “Writing Poetry 2,” with Pat Pattison

2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Carl Phillips: Two New Poems, exclusive to FUSION

“The Autobiography of Frogs” and Other Poems

Duy Đoàn, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize for We Play a Game

Modernist Poems

from “Liberating Aesthetics” course, Wayne Wild

Post-Modernist Poems

from “Liberating Aesthetics” course, Wayne Wild

“Scenes from a Morning” and Other Poems

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Film

Transcendental Horror and the Future of the Genre

Tyler R. Jenkins

Freud describes the nature of horror as un-homelike; unheimlich. When one’s idea of safety is subverted, the effects of horror set in. All horror films strive to achieve this to an extent, whether it’s a killer stalking the protagonist, or a monster …

Black Lives Matter: What Would It Cost Us to Weep with Those Who Weep?

Ricky Staub & Aaron St. Jean

Vinyasa for Two & The Waiting Room: 2 Plays by Naomi Leites

The First Assistant Director: Communicator-in-Chief on a Movie Set

Hristo Dimitrov

A New Lens on Old Film: A Twenty-Something’s Angle on Art House Cinema

Isabella Komodromos

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Art

Berklee Art History Professor Ross Bresler and Vice Provost Robert Lagueux Present:

“Woven in Blood: The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry, the Most Famous Cloth in the World: A Collaboration Between Liberal Arts & Sciences and Academic Affairs”

Treading on the Post-Colonial Road

Rekha Menon

The Art of Mali Olatunji: Painterly Photography from Antigua and Barbuda

by Mali Olatunji and Paget Henry

At Play: New Photographs

by David Hollender

Pastoral Mosaics: Journeys Through Landscapes Rural

Brian Michael Barbeito

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The Garden@FUSION

SPACE // PLACE

an anthology by THE GARDEN @ FUSION

Visual Art

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Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese

Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese

Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese

Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese

Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese

Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese

Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese

Scanzonati: Italian Songwriting Reimagined Through the Language of Jazz and Improvisation.

Andrea Pejrolo and Stefano Marchese