Music
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Adams (1947-) | College 1965 | Composer | |
| Charlie Albright (1988-) | College 2011 | Pianist | |
| Leroy Anderson (1908–1975) | College 1929; A.M. 1930 | Composer | |
| Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) | College 1939 | composer, conductor | |
| Han-na Chang (1982–) | College 2001 | cellist | |
| William Christie (born 1944) | College 1966 | Conductor | |
| Rivers Cuomo (born 1970) | College 2006 | Singer of band Weezer | |
| Aden Evens | College 1988 | Member of musical group Re: | |
| Elliot Forbes (1917–2006) | College 1941; A.M. 1947 | conductor, musicologist | |
| Aaron Goldberg | College 1996 | Jazz pianist | |
| Fred Ho (1957–) | College 1979 | Jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, and bandleader | |
| Samuel Holyoke (1762–1820) | College 1789, A.M. 1792 | composer | |
| Jacob Kimball (1761–1826) | College 1780 | composer | |
| Lester Allyson Knibbs, a.k.a. Abdulhakim Muhammad | College 1968, Ph.D. | composer | |
| Thomas M. Lauderdale (born 1970) | College 1992 | Musician, frontman of Pink Martini | |
| Sara Lazarus | College 1984 | Jazz vocalist | |
| Trey Chui-yee Lee (born 1973) | College 1997 | cellist | |
| Tom Lehrer (born 1928) | College 1946; A.M. 1947 | Satirist; Mathematician; Singer | |
| Ryan Leslie (born 1978) | College 1994 | Music producer; singer-songwriter; musical arranger | |
| Yo-Yo Ma (born 1955) | College 1976 | cellist | |
| Tom Morello (born 1964) | College 1986 | Lead guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine; ex-lead guitarist of the now defunct band Audioslave; Political activist | |
| Dmitri Nabokov (born 1934) | College 1955 | Opera Singer, Son of Vladimir Nabokov | |
| William P. Perry (born 1930) | College 1951 | Composer | |
| Joshua Redman (born 1969) | College 1991 | Jazz saxophonist | |
| Frederic Rzewski (born 1938) | College 1958 | Composer, Pianist | |
| Anton Schwartz (born 1967) | College 1989 | Jazz saxophonist | |
| Robert Strassburg (1915–2003) | A.M. 1950 | Conductor, Composer, Professor of Music, Musicologist | |
| Michael Stern (born 1959) | College 1981 | Conductor, Kansas City Symphony | |
| Brian Tyler (born 1972) | College 1998 | Film composer, music producer, conductor, pianist, drummer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist | |
| David Wax | College 2005 | Musician & songwriter, David Wax Museum | |
| Alan Gilbert (born 1967) | College 1989 | Music director of the New York Philharmonic | |
| Daniel Manzano (born 1980) | College 1999 | bassist, percussionist, backing vocals, and songwriter for Boyce Avenue |
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“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)
“I used to be angry all the time and I’d sit there weaving my anger. Now I’m not angry. I sit there hearing the sounds outside, the sounds in the room, the sounds of the treadles and heddles—a music of my own making.”
—Bhakti Ziek (b. c. 1946)
“Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)