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Penn Gazette Arts and Culture blog highlights music listening selections from faculty and staff

In a two-part post, the Penn Gazette Arts and Culture blog features music listening suggestions from various staff and faculty at the Music Department.  Both Part 1 and Part 2 highlight some new and interesting summer listening suggestions.

Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Eugene Narmour Published

Musical Implications: Essays in Honor of Eugene NarmourLawrence F. Bernstein, EditorAlexander Rozin, EditorThis collection of seventeen essays by friends, colleagues, and formerstudents, edited by Lawrence F. Bernstein and Alexander Rozin,celebrates the extraordinarily broad intellectual reach of EugeneNarmour, Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music atthe University of Pennsylvania, a seminal figure in the field of musictheory, and a path breaking scholar in music cognition. The studies

Jee-Weon Cha, Ph.d. 2002, publishes in Psychology of Music.

 "The Takadimi System Reconsidered: Its Psychological Foundations and Some Proposals for Improvement," Psychology of Music (2014; DOI 10.1177/0305735614528063).It is available for download at:http://pom.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/03/24/0305735614528063

Dr. Monique Ingalls, (PH.D. 2008), has been appointed

Assistant Professor at the Baylor University School of Music.  Congratulations!  She has also been named a Fellow of the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music for 2014-15.

MACSEM annual meeting held at University of Penn March 29-30, 2014

http://ethnocenter.org/MACSEM/AnnualMeeting

The Department of South Asia Studies presents: Transitions in Indian Music and Dance in the Colonial Indian Ocean, c. 1750-1950

Professore Jim Sykes will be a participant in this conference, which will also include a special concert: Khyal, Sitar, Tabla:  The Current GenerationThree New York-based stars of classical music:  Samarth Nagarkar, Abhik Mukherjee, Nitin MittaFriday, April 25th, 8pm - Carriage House, Goodhand Room, 3907 Spruce St. Conference:  Friday April 25-Saturday April 26thfor more info, visit:  sites.sas.upenn.edu/transitions2014/

Vanessa Williams (Ph.D. candidate in Musicology) publishes article in Journal of Musicological Research.

"'Welded in a single mass': Memory and Community in London's Concert Halls"Journal of Musicological Research 33/1-3 (2014), 27-38.

Dr. Jennifer Kyker, (Ph.D. 2011, Ethnomusicology) publishes article in Ethno Forum

  Jennifer Kyker (2014): Learning in Secret: Entanglements between Gender and Age in Women's Experiences with the Zimbabwean Mbira Dzavadzimu, Ethnomusicology Forum, DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2014.880601 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2014.880601   

Luke Carlson, Graduate Student in Composition, wins

November 2013 First Prize, 2014 MACRO Composers Competition: (Edges for string quartet) Prize includes giving a presentation on Edges at the MACRO Workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, June 27-28, 2014.October 2013 Winner, International Trumpet Guild Call for Scores: 2014 performance at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (Fanfaronade for two trumpets) 

Penn Symphony Orchestra member Nicole Pobre talks about her experience with David Kim, concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra

Nicole Pobre, a junior in SEAS, writes about being a member of the orchestra for this unforgettable concert with David Kim as soloist.https://provost.upenn.edu/initiatives/arts/stories/2013/10/23/penn-symph...