"How To Write a Song" Students Perform their Musical Creations in Live Concert

Photo highlights from the 2022 "How To Write a Song" concert performed on April 19 in the Frist Film/Performance Theatre

Photo by Dylan Tran

2 singers perform with a drummer and a bass player

Photo by Dylan Tran

A performer plays on the keyboard as some sings passionately into a mic

Photo by Dylan Tran

Photo by Dylan Tran

Photo by Dylan Tran

Photo by Dylan Tran

Someone sings as another performer plays trombone

Photo by Dylan Tran

Photo by Dylan Tran

Photo by Dylan Tran

3 singers perform on stage with microphones

Photo by Dylan Tran

Princeton students perform a concert of songs with music and lyrics written over the spring 2022 semester as the culmination of the Princeton Atelier course “How to Write a Song” taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and Bridget Kearney of Lake Street Dive with a number of guest songwriters and music critics. In the class, small songwriting teams weekly created music and lyrics inspired by such emotionally charged themes as Contempt, Gratitude, Revenge, Desire, Disgust, Joyousness, Remorse, Loneliness, Despair and Defiance. Check the Princeton Atelier course listings for upcoming “How to Write a Song” classes.