“In sweet music is such art…”

During the preparation for the final choir performance at this year’s graduation ceremony, the harmoniously-intertwined voices of the ECLA of Bard choir were repeatedly—each time with the addition of a new musical ‘flavour’ and spirit—singing this beautiful verse from the part-song Orpheus, with his lute. Based on the poem of William Shakespeare, the musical piece,

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Music Connecting People

The first few weeks of the ISU pushed us into a whirlwind of new impressions consisting of lots of historical and cultural visits all around Berlin, lectures and seminars on Prussia’s history. In between, there are the small night escapades that all of us made individually. Somewhere in the middle of ISU week two, I

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Spray Paint Workshop

On June 11, ECLA organized a spray paint workshop in which a group of students got together under the leadership of student Josefina Capelle and the professional artist Guillaume Cayrac, whose work can be found throughout Europe, to learn how to create a stencil template and employ useful methods for cutting it out, as well

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Postcard From New York

Dear ECLA, This is to proudly share I graduated from Columbia this weekend. The ceremony was outstanding, with an inspiring speech by Kofi Annan. The speech is here. I would like to thank you for my time at ECLA before Columbia. While I have undoubtedly learned a lot this year, it all fell in place

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