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    Mallory Thompson featured on Northwestern Intersections podcast

    June 6, 2019

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    In the latest Northwestern Intersections podcast, Mallory Thompson (79, G80) discusses her “family” at Northwestern, including an extensive alumni network that she has cultivated for the past 23 years as director of bands. Thompson also discusses the Symphonic Wind Ensemble 50th Anniversary Celebration.

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    Mallory Thompson's nearly three-decade tenure concluded this year with a celebratory series of performances, culminating in late May as hundreds of alumni returned to campus to attend her final Northwestern concert.

    A final bow for Mallory Thompson

    April 16, 2024

    After nearly three decades of dedication and service to the Bienen School of Music, Mallory Thompson is preparing to take her final bows in the first of two final concerts at Northwestern.

    Northwestern’s first woman director of bands to retire

    October 5, 2023

    Mallory Thompson, director of bands and John W. Beattie Chair of Music at the Bienen School of Music, will retire at the end of the 2023-24 academic year following a 28-year teaching and conducting career at Northwestern. 

    ‘Spring Fanfare’ honors the breadth of all that is Northwestern

    May 24, 2023

    The Northwestern presidential inauguration will feature members of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble performing “Spring Fanfare,” commissioned by the University and composed by Bienen professor Alex Mincek. 

    Bienen concert premieres commissioned wind arrangement of ‘Losing Earth’

    October 20, 2022

    The Symphonic Wind Ensemble, joined by special guest and alumnus Jacob Nissly ’05, principal percussionist at the San Francisco Symphony, will present the world premiere of “Losing Earth” by Adam Schoenberg. 

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