September 2023 - CMS Interns

The CMS Staff is grateful to have the opportunity to work with three outstanding interns this year! Read the Spotlight below to learn more about interns Gabriel Benedict, Rebecca Needham, and Lena Yang. 

We’ve enjoyed our work with Gabriel, Rebecca, and Lena so far, and we can’t wait to continue our work together.

Staying curious

I grew up in a loving, but chaotic household, alongside my eight siblings, all born within 9 years of one another. And fell in love with music while listening to my Mom play our janky upright piano at the end of our family room. Her repertoire was limited. She knew most of Clair de lune, and happily played it over and over again, and the opening 20-or-so measures of a Scott Joplin rag that remains unknown to me. Even as a child, it was clear to me that music meant something more to my mother beyond the remnants of childhood piano lessons: It was an escape.

The College Music Symposium: Seeking Editor for Music Business & Industry

The College Music Symposium is accepting applications for the Music Business and Industry Component Editor. We seek engaged candidates who want to generate dialogue and help share forward-looking knowledge. Positions are for three years and are unpaid.

The College Music Symposium: Journal of the College Music Society is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes research, comprehensive review articles, forum essays, and individual reviews, including those of books, film/video, audio, technologies and online resources, as well as select performances and lectures. The Symposium, which was first issued in 1961, was established with a unique purpose not duplicated elsewhere: it was a “different sort of scholarly journal…a provocative publication that…cut across lines of specialization” (McCorkle Symposium 1961). The present journal maintains this comprehensive vision, with a contemporary bent, through issuing publications that deal with a variety of topics relating to the wide-ranging academic disciplines and interests of today’s College Music Society members.