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:
“He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire
Opens its eight bells out, skulls’ mouths which will not tire
To tell how there is no music or movement which secures
Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)