Music
- Mike Bloomfield (did not graduate) was a rock and blues guitarist who did solo work (It's Not Killing Me) after playing for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and The Electric Flag.
- Ann Hampton Callaway (1976) is a Tony Award-nominated singer and songwriter (Swing!).
- Marshall Chess is a music executive and producer. The son of Chess Records co-founder Leonard Chess, he was an executive there before becoming the first president of Rolling Stones Records; producing several albums for The Rolling Stones.
- Jeff Harnar (1977) is a New York-based cabaret singer.
- Al Jourgensen (attended), musician
- Liz Phair (1985) is a two-time Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist (Why Can't I?).
- Dave Samuels (1966) is a jazz vibraphonist who formerly played with Spyro Gyra and currently plays with The Caribbean Jazz Project.
- William Susman (1978) is a composer of concert and film music.
- Joe Trohman (2002) is a guitarist for the bands The Damned Things and Fall Out Boy.
- Matt Walker (1987) is a rock musician and former drummer for The Smashing Pumpkins.
- Aaron Weinstein (2003) is a jazz violinist who has played with Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli for many years.
- Pete Wentz (attended), bassist for the bands Black Cards and Fall Out Boy.
- The Ying Quartet is a string quartet started by three brothers and one sister: David (1981), Daniel (1985), Phillip (1986), and Janet (1988), all of whom are alumni.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“I fear I agree with your friend in not liking all sermons. Some of them, one has to confess, are rubbish: but then I release my attention from the preacher, and go ahead in any line of thought he may have started: and his after-eloquence acts as a kind of accompaniment—like music while one is reading poetry, which often, to me, adds to the effect.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,—that were a bath and a medicine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)