News
Assistant Professor Mary Caldwell featured in "Penn Today"
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
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
for 2018 and '19: ACLS and Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
Assistant Professor Mary Caldwell and Penn’s “Medieval confluence”
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
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.
Next Colloquium (4/3): David Samuels (NYU)
on folk revivalism in the XX centuryTuesday, 3 APRIL (5:15), room 102: DAVID SAMUELS (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)Title: Early Folk World: Searching for Humanity in 20th Century Industrial Modernity
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