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Project-based, hands-on learning prepares NEC students for careers of artistry, innovation, and impact.
Our students and faculty take the stage at more than 800 concerts and events every year.
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Ten years after its premiere, BSO to reprise Michael Gandolfi’s “Ascending Light”
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