News

Ph.D. candidate Maria Ryan publishes essay on “Written on Skin”

May 9, 2018

in Routledge’s miscellany “Recomposing the Past”

Prof. Guthrie Ramsey interviewed by Time Magazine

May 8, 2018

on Charlie Gambino's video "This is America" - see hereProf. Guthrie Ramsey, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, provides an in-depth analysis of Childish Gambino's music video "This is America" in Time Magazine: "Even though we think of popular culture as a space where we escape, [Childish Gambino’s] forcing us to understand that there’s actually nowhere to run." See here.

Assistant Professor Mary Caldwell featured in "Penn Today"

May 3, 2018

on her freshman seminar "Hearing (in) the Middle Ages" - see here https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/exploring-sounds-middle-ages

Kevin Laskey and Eugene Lew awarded Penn Sachs Program Awards for 2018-19

May 1, 2018

for composing and presenting new musical works - more here Kevin Laskey (Ph.D. candidate in Composition) will compose a new work (Almanac, an  Evening-Length Work for Classical Musicians & Improvisers) exploring myriad intersections of improvisation and formal composition, featuring nationally acclaimed performers Warp Trio (classical), the Kevin Sun Quartet (Jazz) and Variant 6 (vocal).

Assistant Professor Glenda Goodman awarded two prestigious fellowships

April 19, 2018

for 2018 and '19: ACLS and Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

Assistant Professor Mary Caldwell and Penn’s “Medieval confluence”

March 28, 2018

Click or tap here to read the article in Penn Today!https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/medieval-confluence

Assistant Professor Jim Sykes releases a new album

March 26, 2018

click for more!Jim Sykes has released a new album with a band called Hidden Rifles. The band includes Jim on drums with several well known musicians in the indie rock world: legendary bass player Mike Watt (Minutemen, Stooges), guitarist Norman Westberg from the experimental New York rock band Swans, and guitarist Mark Shippy from the Chicago post-rock band U.S. Maple. The project was organized by vocalist Matthew Wascovich of the long-running Cleveland underground band Scarcity of Tanks.