On a recent morning, student musicians played jazzy riffs in the new music rooms at Fordham College at Lincoln Center and also riffed about what music means to them.
“[It] makes me feel free,” said Marcelus “Maco” Dacanay, a music major who has played the guitar for more than a decade. “Practice is what makes you a better musician—and these spaces give that to us.”
The music rooms are part of a revamped music and art suite that opened for the start of the academic year, generously funded by donors and named in honor of the college’s dean emeritus, Robert R. Grimes, S.J.
“For the music students, having a space that they know is theirs … [means] they can feel comfortable and safe, collaborating and meeting with new people, experimenting with music, and exercising their creativity,” said Matthew Buttermann, Ed.D., director of jazz performance. “It’s going to be really great for everyone.”
