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Michael Anderson has a new article on Midsummer rituals, motets and John the Baptist in Early Music History (2011). For a PDF of the article, “Fire, Foliage, and Fury,” see his faculty listing, under Works / Publications. |
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Corbett Bazler, newly appointed assistant professor in the Music Department at the College of the University of Rochester, presented a paper at the 2011 AMS meeting in San Francisco. The title, “Reforming Handel: The Failed Heroics of Imeneo (1740) and Deidamia (1741)”, reflects research contained in his recently completed dissertation at Columbia University. |
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At the 2011 AMS meeting in San Francisco, Melina Essepresented a paper titled “Saffo’s Lyre: Improvisation and Neoclassicism in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera.” The paper focused on Pacini’s highly successful opera and the figure of the female poetess as improviser, both as a character in this opera and in contemporary Italian culture. She is currently preparing a book on this topic. |
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Roger Freitas presented a paper at the 2011 AMS meeting in San Francisco on Adelina Patti and performance practice in the song “Home! Sweet Home!” The paper, titled “The Art of Artlessness, or, Adelina Patti Teaches Us How to Be Natural,” aims to shed light on performance practices in the 19th century as well as the musical expression of simplicity in that era. The paper will be published in expanded form in a festschrift for Ellen Rosand of Yale University. |
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Lisa Jakelski presented a paper at the San Francisco AMS meeting in November 2011, titled “New Sounds, New Ears: Listening at the Warsaw Autumn in the Early 1960s.” She will also present a paper at Princeton in February 2012, at a symposium in honor of her mentor, Richard Taruskin. |
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Ellen Koskoff will publish a book of her collected essays, A Feminist Ethnomusicology: The Koskoff Reader, from the University of Illinois Press. It will include her writings from the past thirty-five years on gender and music. |
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Kim Kowalke, Professor of Music and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities in the College,
had an article, “Kurt Weill, Modernism, and Popular Culture: Oeffentlichkeit als Stil,” republished in Ashgate’s Opera after 1900 anthology, edited by Margaret Notley. He also presented a lecture for faculty at the University of Rochester on the Phelps Colloquium series in December 2011, on Stephen Sondheim and a number from A Little Night Music. |
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Jennifer Kyker is a newly appointed assistant professor with a specialty in ethnomusicology, in particular music in Sub-Saharan Africa and especially Zimbabwe. She holds a 50/50 appointment divided between Eastman and the Music Department at the University of Rochester. She is a master performer on the mbira, and she chaired a session on African Musics at the November 2011 meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Philadelphia. |
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Ralph Locke presented a paper on early examples of musical exoticism at the San Francisco AMS meeting in November 2011: “Musical Exoticism 1500-1750: Some Methodological Considerations and Case Studies.” |
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Honey Meconi edited a volume on medieval performance practice for Ashgate, published an article on Hildegard of Bingen in a festschrift for Klaus-Jürgen Sachs, and another article on the motets of Pierre de la Rue in Die Tonkunst. She also published an article on Sibley’s 15th-century “Rochester Fascicle” in the festschrift for David Fallows. Finally, a CD of low-range music, “Extreme Singing,” appeared in December 2011, including a performance of Pierre de la Rue’s Requiem Mass at the notated pitch. She advised the performers, the Vox Early Music Ensemble, and she and the group received the Noah Greenberg Award from the AMS in support of the project. |
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Holly Watkins presented a paper, “The Economics of Musical Space,” at the AMS meeting in San Francisco in November 2011. She also presented a paper in January 2012 at the MLA meeting in Seattle on the staging of Wagner’s operas. |
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