News
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.
Siel Agugliaro's writes blog article appearing in JSTOR Daily:
John Adams' "On the Transmigration of Souls," -- After 9/11 http://daily.jstor.org/john-adams-on-the-transmigration-of-souls/
DEIRDRE LOUGHRIDGE, Musicology Ph.D. '11, publishes
Haydn Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow, University of Chicago Press. Congratulations Deirdre!
Three Penn composition alumni
have been awarded Arts and Letters Awards in Music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters - Rob Kyr (M.A. '78), Robert Carl (M.A. '78) and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (Ph.D. 1993)http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=80ed7b7a619f831a187e53185&id=25963421e7&e=[UNIQID]