News
Composer Matthew Schreibeis (PhD Penn) awarded Charles Ives Award
from American Acad. of Arts and Letters - more here and www.mschreibeis.com
Grad. stud. Emma Barnaby live on WRTI
on first book printed in North America - Tue 12:10pm https://goo.gl/WJ2xer
Symposium: Gothic Arts (3/23-24), with medieval music concert in Kislak (Fri. 7pm)
More here on the symposium and here on the concert
Next Colloquium: Elaine Hayes (Tuesday, 3/20)
on her new book on Sarah VaughanMarch 20 (Tuesday) at 5:15, Room 102
Alumna Brooke McCorkle (Ph.D. '15) co-authors book
Japan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaijū Cinema came out in late January! (on sale on Kindle for $3.99) Brooke has also been awarded a Visiting Scholar position at Waseda University in Tokyo where she plans to conduct research to finish the book version of her dissertation, Searching for Wagner in Japan.
Siel Agugliaro (Ph.D. candidate, Music History) awarded SAM dissertation fellowship
Siel Agugliaro has been selected as a recipient of one of the 2018 Margery Lowens Dissertation Fellowships, made available by the Society for American Music (SAM) in support of his dissertation project, “Imagining Italy, Surviving America: Opera, Italian Immigrants, and Identity in Philadelphia, 1880-1924.”
Dr. Naomi Waltham-Smith has published an article
in the inaugural issue of an exciting new journal Music & Science
Juan Castrillón's two new documentaries
presented on February 27 at 5:15KIRANIA (Long Clarinets), and PAMI KIRAMI (Long House) are two short film projects of Juan Castrillón's ongoing fieldwork.
Colloquia: Alejandro Madrid (Cornell, 2/13), Stewart Varner (Penn, 2/20)
also: Prof. Ramsey's Provost Diversity Lecture on the 22nd! (more below)Titles and abstracts at:/colloquia/about-our-colloquia-series
Anna Weesner, Robert Weiss Professor of Music and Chair, awarded Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music
The prestigious award is administered from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. CONGRATULATIONS!