News
Professor Naomi Waltham-Smith presents her field recordings of demonstrations in Paris
during the presidential campaign in a podcast for Sounding Out! https://soundstudiesblog.com/2017/05/25/sounding-out-podcast-61-ni-le-pen-ni-macron-parisian-soundscapes-of-resistance/
PENN FLUTES featured in next "Penn News Today"
The Office of Communications highlights Michele Kelly and the Penn Flutes in their upcoming issue:"Penn Flutes Performs on Campus and in Community"by Louisa Shepard
Professor Jay Reise's Opera, Rasputin, Performed in Moscow's New Stravinsky Hall
Feb. 10 & 11 Professor Jay Reise's opera Rasputin was performed in Moscow's new state-of-the-art Stravinsky Hall, home of the Helikon Opera Theater just outside the Kremlin. Dmitry Bertman's spectacular production, with a new stellar cast (headed by Grigory Soloviev in the title role who was heard recently in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Shostakovich's The Nose), was led by Australian conductor Alexander Briger.
A review from the Daedalus Quartet's "Black Angels and Secrets" at the Penn Museum
Read the review here.
Congratulations to Scott Ordway (Ph.D. Composition, '13)
on his employment as an Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Theory in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick beginning Fall 2017.
Keisuke Yamada (Ph.D. student in Ethnomusicology) publishes article in
Asian Music. Keisuke Yamada (2017), "Rethinking Iemoto: Theorizing Individual Agency in the Tsugaru Shamisen Oyama-ryu," Asian Music 48(1):28–57. <http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35504>
Ethnomusicology Candidate, Juan Castrillon's film,
Rehavi, premiered and screened at Faculty of Art, Communication and Architecture of Istanbul Medeniyet University on December 28th, 2016.
Join us in congratulating Juan Castrillon whose
proposal: Unpacking Tukanoan Sonic Archives, has been chosen for funding by the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA). The funding is provided by the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund.
Music Department shines at AMS/SMT annual meeting in Vancouver (Nov. 3-6).
In Vancouver, Siel Agugliaro, Glenda Goodman, Naomi Waltham-Smith, and Vanessa Williams delivered papers, Jamuna Samuel chaired a session, and Carlo Lanfossi was awarded a grant in the history of opera. Among the alumni, Roger M. Grant was awarded the SMT Emerging Scholar Award and Martha Feldman the AMS Kinkeldey Award.