{"id":2480,"date":"2020-07-31T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/student-sets-cleopatras-life-to-music\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:03:48","slug":"general-education-course-cleopatra-set-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/general-education-course-cleopatra-set-to-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Student sets Cleopatra\u2019s life to music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3276-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3276-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Student sets Cleopatra\u2019s life to music\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  In a USC Dornsife general education course about Cleopatra, a USC Thornton student delivered a tuneful take on the ancient Egyptian ruler\u2019s life. Above, Lawrence Alma-Tadema\u2019s 1885 painting <em>The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, 41 B.C.<\/em> (Image Source: WikiCommons.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=student\">Student<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Student sets Cleopatra\u2019s life to music<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  For a USC Dornsife general education seminar, a music and business undergraduate juxtaposed modern jazz with ancient history to create two musical pieces based on the life of the legendary Egyptian ruler. <strong>[3\u00bd min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Meredith McGroarty<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">July 31, 2020<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 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&mdash; especially how they can be perceived to be politically motivated and not based on true love. I wanted to see what emotions I could evoke from essentially glorifying Cleopatra&rsquo;s relationships as perfect and romantic ones,&rdquo; Hwang explained.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/818708530&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Simon Hwang\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-55929140\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Hwang<\/a> &middot; <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"G Avenue\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-55929140\/g-avenue\" target=\"_blank\">G Avenue<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Was There, Us? <iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/818705998&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Simon Hwang\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-55929140\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Hwang<\/a> &middot; <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Was There, Us?\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-55929140\/was-there-us\" target=\"_blank\">Was There, Us?<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Associate Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/clas\/\">Classics<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/\">History<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1024522\">Christelle Fischer-Bovet<\/a>, who taught the course, said that the class examines representations of Cleopatra throughout history &mdash; from ancient sources to Shakespeare to modern films and television series &mdash; to assess how women leaders were and continue to be perceived problematically in different societies.<\/p>\n<p>Students in the class can work on either a final paper or a creative project; she encourages those who choose the latter to combine the course material with skills and techniques they&rsquo;ve learned through their major, all the while reflecting on their approach, aims and the possible difficulties they faced. One student in a previous class, for example, created a cubist drawing of Cleopatra.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Simon&rsquo;s idea was exactly the sort of project I was hoping for,&rdquo; Fischer-Bovet said. &ldquo;He continues to build Cleopatra&rsquo;s legacy with his two musical compositions and shares his own views on why it still matters to talk about Cleopatra.&rdquo; She added that she was impressed with the two songs&rsquo; ability to expose the tension between politics and romance, as well as to convey the strong will Cleopatra exerted as a ruler determined to keep her kingdom independent.<\/p>\n<p>Simon&rsquo;s commitment to the project was also impressive, Fischer-Bovet added. &ldquo;Simon&rsquo;s music made a strong impression on the whole class. And though he had been in Korea since the lockdown started, he decided to join the meeting in the middle of his night for presenting &lsquo;Was There, Us?&rsquo;&rdquo; she said. The students in the class, she added, were amazed that Simon had played all of the instruments in that song, and they were touched that he was able to express their course material so well through music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A non-musical background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hwang, who is scheduled to graduate in the fall of 2023 and is majoring in jazz studies at <a href=\"https:\/\/music.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Thornton School of Music<\/a> and business administration at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Marshall School of Business<\/a>, grew up in several cities, including Hong Kong, Seoul and Princeton, New Jersey. Although he wasn&rsquo;t really interested in composing music as a young child, he did start playing the saxophone at age 10, and later, in high school, he began to compose music. It was in Princeton, he said, that he discovered a love of jazz, one that led him to USC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-image-portrait news-image-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Cleopatra-Simon-Hwang_InStoryA-3276.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white cut-out photo of Simon Wang wearing casual clothes playing saxophone against a white background.\"><\/p>\n<p>Simon Hwang set Cleopatra&rsquo;s life to music with two original jazz compositions. (Photo: Courtesy of Simon Hwang.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I fell in love with the campus when I visited. It had a vibe and aura that I didn&rsquo;t feel anywhere else,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hwang enrolled in the Cleopatra class because the ruler was &ldquo;a subject full of character,&rdquo; and he was particularly interested in Cleopatra&rsquo;s relationships with the two powerful Romans. When given the choice to create something different for the final, he decided to see how the subject might influence his musical composition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I typically don&rsquo;t combine fields unless there&rsquo;s an objective or necessity to &mdash; like a class assignment &mdash; but when I&rsquo;m playing the saxophone and improvising, I most certainly am influenced by fields other than jazz,&rdquo; he explained. He added that while he doesn&rsquo;t anticipate expanding the two pieces, he might pick them up again if any future compositions shared those themes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, while he enjoyed the history course, Hwang added that he would next like to try his hand at another field &mdash; creative writing, also offered at USC Dornsife.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Poetry is certainly something I&rsquo;d like to get into if given the opportunity,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The creativity involved in writing poetry would be very beneficial to writing lyrics for my compositions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a USC Dornsife general education seminar, a music and business undergraduate juxtaposed modern jazz with ancient history to create two musical pieces based on the life of the legendary Egyptian ruler. <strong>[3\u00bd min read]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[406,214],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student","tag-general-education","tag-undergraduate-spotlight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Student sets Cleopatra\u2019s life to music<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/general-education-course-cleopatra-set-to-music\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Student sets Cleopatra\u2019s life to music\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For a USC Dornsife general education seminar, a music and business undergraduate juxtaposed modern jazz with ancient history to create two musical pieces based on the life of the legendary Egyptian ruler. 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