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BENJAMIN BERNSTEIN
HOMETOWN:
 Newton, MA
HIGH SCHOOL:
 Newton South
MAJOR:
 English, Music
THESIS:
 I'm planning on doing an opera based on William Steig's "Rotten Island." The orchestration will probably be unconventional...right now I'm thinking five guitars, pipe organ, a regular choir, and a children's choir, and a string quartet.
ACTIVITIES:
 I'm a member of the Wesleyan Sound Co-Op, which does live music for various events around campus. I'm also a Writing Tutor, and this past year I was the tutor for a music class I also play pipe organ, gamelan, and synthesizer in my own band and sometimes for others.
OUTSIDE
WESLEYAN:
 I run a small online record label called Amazing Wow, which is time consuming but a lot of fun. I like to compose music, write for online and print publications, when I can, and do some social network consulting for music vendors. I've got two chocolate labs that are surprisingly cuddly for their size.
AFTER
WESLEYAN:
 It's pretty up in the air, but I'm interested in going to Indonesia to play gamelan, or maybe spending time writing journalism features in a city.
FAV WES EXPERIENCE:
 The best part so far has been learning how to play the pipe organ and realizing how loud and complicated an instrument it is!
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