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MUSICn e w s l e t t e r Vol. 7, No. 1/Winter 2007 Out of Africa: Kay Kaufman Shelemay and the Music Building Ethiopian Diaspora North Yard ddis Ababa sprawls atop the Ethio- Harvard University pian highland plateau: lush with Cambridge, MA 02138 bougainvillea and eucalyptus, and Anoisy with merchants’ shouts from Africa’s 617-495-2791 largest outdoor market. More than four million people live here in the capital city, www.music.fas.harvard.edu where tin-roofed huts stand in extreme contrast to imperial palaces and elegant hotels. As a young graduate student, Kay INSIDE Kaufman Shelemay spent 2 1/2 years in Addis Ababa breathing in its colors, sounds, 3 Faculty News culture and people. Her book, A Song of INSIDE Shelemay recently interviewed Ethiopian masenqo player, Ato Getame- 4 Graduate Student News Longing. An Ethiopian Journey (1991) is at say Abebe in Cambridge. Left to right: Prof. Shelemay, Charles Sutton (who performed on the masenqo in Ethiopia), Getamesay Abebe, and 2 heart a love letter to this ancient, war-torn 5 Record 18 new graduate Harvard graduate student Danny Mekonnen. 3 part of Africa. students accepted 4 “I love Ethiopian music,” says Shelemay. “My York. This revolutionized my relationship to my 6 Alumni News dissertation project was on the liturgical music field—the work I was doing in Africa I could 6 Loeb Library donates of the Beta Israel, the community today known now do at home. It made me enormously aware of Ethiopian community around me.” materials to Tulane as the Ethiopian Jews, almost all of whom are now living in Israel. I also began research on the Between 1971 and 1994 thousands of Ethio- 7 Library News Ethiopian Christian tradition while I was living in pian immigrants entered the U.S., and the num- 7 Bach Archive publishes Addis Ababa. When the revolution began, I could ber has increased rapidly since then. “Ethiopians seven new volumes see my plan for long term research in Ethiopia have had a presence, and now, a new presence,” was at risk and I began researching everything in says Shelemay. “This is a migration that is separate 8 Composers’ Orchestral sight.” from the historical African American community. Concert It was 1974, and the last Ethiopian emperor For Ethiopian Americans, restaurants present a 9 Undergraduate News I am looking at how music helps establish and maintain communities in transition. I am interested 9 Bernstein & Barenboim in music's role in establishing and maintaining ethnic, religious, and social boundaries. Music also 11 Calendar provides a connective tissue between homeland and diaspora, with music and musicians flowing back and forth, through travel, technology, recordings, etc.—Kay Kaufman Shelemay

was overthrown in a coup that left a wake of public face, and specialty grocery stores, CDs civil unrest, drought and famine. Millions of and videos help transmit and preserve Ethiopian Ethiopians fled their country and relocated in culture.” diaspora communities across the globe. Shelemay Shelemay dove more deeply into Orthodox had little choice but to return to the U.S. where Christian ritual music research she’d begun in Ad- she finished her PhD (University of Michigan), dis Ababa in the 1970s. “The Ethiopian Christian Department Chair moved to New York City, and began her academic Orthodox Church is one of the oldest Christian Ingrid Monson career at Columbia University. Then it dawned denominations, founded in early 4th century,” she Director of Administration on her. explains. Ethiopian church musicians or dabtara Nancy Shafman “What I hadn’t realized until I moved (deb-TARE-uh) traditionally study for years, from early childhood through a series of chant schools. Newsletter Editor into the Upper West Side was that there were Lesley Bannatyne thousands of Ethiopians newly arrived in New But, Shelemay says, the scarcity of clergy in the [email protected] continued on p. 2 Shelemay, continued modern U.S. puts the traditional Ethiopian tions, due out from Harvard University Press in church music at risk. Congregations may use spring 2007). “There are musical therapies in recordings, or only hire musicians for Christ- Ethiopia used to treat mental disorders, as well as mas or Easter. In addition, new music was physical ones. A number of groups of musicians created by young Ethiopians who, during the have careers in magical practices, divination and revolution, sought refuge in Sunday school healing. For example, the Lalibela, a group of lessons and in organized choirs. Hymns were musicians that have Hansen’s disease (leprosy), composed in vernacular language —Amhar- are also mendicants—they sing to keep leprosy ic—and the music circulated on cassettes. By away. And, there are genres of Ethiopian battle the 1990s, Shelemay summarizes, there was songs that are sung to wrestle with spirits who a new Ethiopian music style both in church make people sick. and outside it. And now other Ethiopian “I remain interested in music’s role as a part musics are becoming popular on the world of healing therapies in many cultures worldwide.” music stage as well. “Ethiopian music is getting hot!” Shele- Hans Tutschku’s Tell Me! ...a secret premieres may enthuses. “Bands in different parts of the Kay Kaufman Shelemay is G. Gordon Watts Profes- at the Carpenter Center March 8–April 13, world are starting to play Ethiopian music, sor of Music and Professor of African and African 2007. The piece is built around two interactive largely because of the web and published American Studies. A revised second edition of her sound and video installations which invite the recordings. Mulatu Astatke, a composer who Soundscapes. Exploring Music in a Changing viewer to become, quite literally, part of the initiated Ethio-jazz in the 1960s, was inspired World (W.W. Norton) was published in June art. The photographs in Tell Me! ... a secret ... in part by church chant. (Mulatu—Ethiopi- 2006. She has recently worked with the UNESCO are inspired by Tutschku’s previous multimedia ans are called by their first names—composed Intangible Culture Heritage Program in Ethiopia, performances. Incorporating dance, music, and the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch’s 2005 and also helped redesign the humanities curriculum image projection, Tutschku’s work utilizes both film, Broken Flowers.) In fact, last month I at Hebrew University in Israel. Shelemay received his acting studies in Berlin and his work with plugged in my earphones on a plane flying a 2007-2008 NEH Fellowship to support her Ensemble für Intuitive Musik. to Hawaii and I heard Mulatu on the world research in preparation for a new book on the Opening reception is on March 15 at music channel! Maybe people who study Ethiopian diaspora community. 5:30pm; gallery talk on March 16 at 5:00pm. Beethoven get used to this, but when you’ve studied Ethiopian music your whole life Ethiopian Leader Honored in Chelsea, MA you’re not accustomed to hearing it on the radio, in film, or broadcast. It’s exciting.” Thanks to the initiative of Shelemay has begun working with Mike Mekonnen Tsegaye, Mulatu on a number of projects. “I’m in- an Ethiopian American city terested in how musical communities are councilman in Chelsea, Mas- constituted—how people can be born into sachusetts, the Chelsea City a tradition, like a religious tradition, or come Council recently sponsored a together in political affinity, like much of the proclamation honoring Father roots music, or coalesce because they just like Sahay Berhanu, the spiri- the sounds. Mulatu’s music partakes in all tual leader of a Boston area this. He’s helped me understand how music Ethiopian Christian Orthodox works in society—Orthodox church music, Church located in Mattapan. folkloric music, Ethio jazz and pop mu- Many of the large population sic—how these categories are not mutually of Ethiopians in Chelsea at- exclusive.” She is currently working closely tend this church, and Shele- with church musicians in the United States may, who has come to know such as an accomplished musician living Father Sahay Berhanu through in Cambridge who heads a local Ethiopian Shelemay with Ethiopian spiritual leader and liturgical music expert her research, was invited to the Orthodox church. Father Sahay Berhanu at his proclamation ceremony in Chelsea. ceremony. Shelemay is also exploring a longtime fascination with music and healing (She co- “It was thrilling,” says Shelemay. “This is a new community, engaged with the workings edited the volume, Pain and Its Transforma- of local government, acknowledging one of their own who is helping to establish Ethiopian religious life here.”

2 Faculty News

Morton B. Knafel Professor performances by Laurence Dreyfus and John Thomas F. Kelly was made Butt, and Wolff gave an illustrated talk on an honorary citizen of the exciting recent discoveries about Bach. city of Benevento, Italy on The prize, sponsored by the Kohn Foun- November 17th, in the course dation, is awarded to an individual who has of a special session of the City made an outstanding contribution to the Council in the presence of the performance and/or scholarly study of the Prefect of the Province. That music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The selec- evening Kelly introduced and tors for the inaugural prize were Professor commented on a concert of Curtis Price KBE (chair), Professor John Butt Beneventan chant sung by the (Glasgow University), Professor Laurence choir of Benevento Cathedral Dreyfus FBA (Oxford University) and Dr. and transcribed by him, in the Ralph Kohn FRS (Kohn Foundation). 8th-century church of Santa Sofia. The following day he Kelly receives honorary citizenship in Benevento, Italy. Music Lectures at Warren Center was a guest at a special event in Together with Nancy Cott (Department of His- the Benevento Conservatory, where he was Bernard Rands received an honorary doc- tory), Carol Oja will lead the Warren Center at presented with a special award. torate from the University of York, England, Harvard workshop, “Cultural Reverberations William Powell Mason Professor Carol where he also gave the commencement of Modern War.” The workshop features three Oja co-directed “Leonard Bernstein: Boston address. Rands has also been appointed a musicologists: Beth Levy (2/20, 4pm: “WW to Broadway,” at Harvard, October 12-14, Visiting Scholar in the Division of Hu- II and the Changing Face of Race in Modern 2006, including a student-curated exhibit in manities at the University of Chicago. His Music”); Suzanne Cusick (4/6, 4pm: “Music the Loeb Music Library titled “Boston's Ber- recent performance and teaching activities as Weapon, Music as Torture: Soundscapes nstein,” which will remain on view through include master classes at the Tanglewood of Modern War”); and James Edward Ditson the spring semester. She published an essay Festival and lectures and master classes at Professor Anne Shreffler (4/10, 6pm: “‘The about the emergence of Ruth Crawford Indiana University, Bloomington; Roosevelt New Image of Music’: American Serialism and Seeger’s music in the 1970s in Ruth Craw- University, Chicago; and Haverford College, the Cold War.” ford Seeger’s World: Innovation and Tradition Pennsylvania. The premiere of now again— in Twentieth-Century American Music, and, fragments from Sappho, commissioned by with Ryan Banagale, an essay on Bernstein in the Koussevitzky Foundation, was given in the Juilliard Journal. Oja also continued her Philadelphia; Canzoni per Orchestra were re- work as Director-at-Large of the American cently released by Delos records; and several Musicological Society. new works were published by Schott Music. On Monday November 27th, Associate Additionally, Rands has received a commis- Professor Karen Painter and her husband sion from the New York Philharmonic for Richard delivered a healthy girl, Anne a large-scale work for orchestra that will be Symmes Painter. premiered in 2009 to celebrate Rands’ 75th Professor Alex Rehding gave presenta- birthday year. tions at the AMS/SMT meeting in Los Ange- Associate Professor Hans Tutschku les, at the international conference “Europe’s premiered Distance Liquide, a piece for 60 Center” in Weimar, at the BSO/Harvard loudspeakers, at Fench Radio in Paris on Carol Oja talks with Barbara Wolff at the Moses und Aron Symposium (organized by January 13, 2007. His Rojo won the first annual department Assistant Professor Elliott Gyger), and prize in the category of electroacoustic mu- holiday party. at this year's Faculty Colloquium on po- sic at Musica Nova 2006, an international Kay Shelemay and lyphony. Recent publications include articles competition sponsored by the Society for Yo-Yo Ma at Wad- sworth House dur- in Cambridge Opera Journal and Musical Electroacoustic Music of Czech Republic. ing a brainstorming Quarterly, and in the edited volume Music, Adams University Professor Christoph session aimed at de- Theatre and Politics in Germany. Rehding also Wolff won the first Royal Academy of Music veloping additional takes up the editorship of Acta Musicological, Bach Prize, which was presented to him in Silk Road courses. jointly with Philippe Vendrix. the Academy’s David Josefowitz Recital Hall In June, 2006, Research Professor in October 2006. The presentation included

3 Graduate Student News Department Welcomes Eighteen Graduate Students Emily Abrams married Daniel Ansari in Hep- the BMI women’s music commission competi- The Music Department received a 100% acceptance rate in 2006, meaning that a record 18 new graduate penheim, Germany, and moved to London, tion. students joined us in September. Here’s a sampling of who they are and why they’re here. Ontario where Daniel was recently appointed At the recent SEM conference in Hono- Mariam Nazarian is a Assistant Professor in Psychology at the Univer- lulu, Katherine Lee was elected a member of concert pianist with inter- sity of Western Ontario. Emily will be teaching the board for the Association for Korean Music ests in J.S. Bach, 18th- and an undergraduate course at the same institution Research. 19th-century keyboard in the spring of 2007 entitled Music and Politics Mariam Nazarian’s upcoming perfor- literature, Armenian folk in the Twentieth Century. mances will include Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat music and liturgy, and Aaron Berkowitz’s piece Hawk from a Major, K. 482 (with own cadenzas) with the vocal jazz improvisation. handsaw was premiered by the Trio Ascolto in Princeton Symphony Orchestra on March 11, She came to Harvard for Berlin. With fellow graduate student Richard 2007, and a solo recital in Paine Hall on April the level of scholarship in Schwanenge- Giarusso he performed Schubert's 22, 2007. all fields, dialogue between multiple disciplines, sang on fortepiano in North Adams, a concert The Ensemble Phorminx (Germany) welcoming atmosphere, and resources. called, “one of the more exciting classical events premiered Karola Obermueller’s Red Lake Matthew Mugmon, a of the summer,” by Michael Miller in the pub- Fields 2 at Museum für Angewandte Kunst in former Classical Stud- lication, Berkshire Arts. David Trippet conducts Far from the Madding Crowd for Frankfurt and reflejos distantes (commissioned ies major and middle- Jean Francois Charles has been invited the Thomas Hardy Society Festival in Dorset. by the ensemble) for bass flute, bass clarinet, school teacher, chose to give lectures at the Sibelius Academy in Fin- Mekonnen, Michael Heller and Marc violin and violoncello in Tübingen and Darm- Harvard also for its Meredith Schweig studies the popular land this March. He will teach spectral sound Gidal—performed in the Dudley House jazz stadt. The world premiere of Kohlenmonoxyd resources and faculty. musics of Taiwan and China, particularly band’s fall concert on campus. The concert Nachtstück processing in real time within the Max/MSP/ (after the libretto of the same name) with respect to the subjects of identity forma- ranged from experimental jazz to traditional He’s interested in an- Jitter environment and other topics related to by Gabriele Strassmann will take place at the tion, the cultural dynamics of the cross-strait gospel to Ethio-jazz to klezmer-junk to big band tiphon borrowing in Ambrosian chant, Sting’s his current work. International Physicians for the Prevention of relationship, and the contemporary music works by Ellington, Oliver Nelson, Mongo San- political music, the changing definitions of the José Luis Hurtado’s compositions Nuclear War Congress at St. Sebald in Nurem- of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples. “I chose tamaria, and Kenny Garrett. Compositions and term “Symphonic Poem,” biographies of Wil- received performances in Japan, Mexico, The berg. Additionally, The Juventas Ensemble Harvard because the combined resources of arrangements by Heller, Mekonnen and Charles les sables mouvants liam Byrd circa 1923, the (dis)organization of Juilliard School and The University of Nevada, performed her in Cambridge the Music Department and Yenching Insti- were performed. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book I, and the where he also lectured. He was the recipient and Boston. Obermueller received a fellowship tute make the University a fantastic place to Sheryl Kaskowitz and Marc Gidal were application of narrative theory to Monteverdi's of a Composers Assistance Grant from the for 2006–2008 in the Akademie Musiktheater pursue studies in East Asian music.” American Music Center. part of a panel presention on musical commu- heute from Deutsche Bank Stiftung and was late madrigals. He also likes Mahler a lot. On December 16 several music gradu- nities at the annual meeting of the Society for awarded a Fromm Music Foundation Com- Louis Epstein thinks ate students—Matthew Clayton, Mariam Ethnomusicology (SEM) in Hawaii this past mission for a piece for bass clarinet and piano. he'll write a dissertation Nazarian, Jean-Francois Charles, Danny Trippet Conducts Opera as November. Additionally, she received the Darmstadt Music on composers’ relation- part of Hardy Festival in U.K. Jonathan Kregor presented papers at Prize 2006. ships with political and the International Conference on Nineteenth- Jesse Rodin was the recipient of the non-musical artistic cur- David Trippett conducted the world Graduate Music Forum Century Music and at the national meetings of 2006 Paul A. Pisk Prize from the American rents in early 20th-cen- premiere of British composer Andrew Downes’ the Royal Musical Association and the American Musicological Society for his paper, “‘When tury France (he’s also a Music & Crisis opera Far from the Madding Crowd at the Musicological Society. in Rome...’: What Josquin Learned in the closet theorist), and chose Thomas Hardy Society Festival in Dorset, UK, Hannah Lash won honorable mention in Sistine Chapel.” Rodin also received an AMS Harvard for its “all-star in July. Trippet recounts: “The opera is in five 50 award to support his final dissertation work. faculty, tight-knit student March 10, 2007 acts, and is scored for chamber orchestra, lead On September 17 Rodin and fiancé Daphna community, exhaustive 9:30 am to 6:00 pm male and female roles, and two supporting male Davidson were married; the couple took time resources, and proximity Dudley House, Harvard University and female roles. The singers were all London- for a honeymoon in Thailand. to Bartley’s, that ham- based professionals, a couple were old friends Anna Zayaruznaya gave a conference burger joint in Harvard Square.” A day-long interdisciplinary from Cambridge, England, and others were Thomas Lin has degrees in Musicology paper, “Machaut’s Motets and the Mechanics graduate student conference gleaned from agents. We certainly had our own and Chemical Engineering and chose of Intelligibility,” at Kloster Neustift/Novacella Frank Lehman's interest little drama when the lead male singer dropped Harvard to pursue critical theory in the in Italy. in film music, both histori- Keynote speaker: out only a week before rehearsals were to begin Renaissance, the development of tonality Bok Center Certificates of Distinction for cal and technical, served as Christoph Wolff (the part was too hard). After two days of frantic in Italy, Enlightenment aesthetics, 19th- Excellence in Teaching for spring 2006 were an entry point into opera, Adams University Professor at Harvard enquiry, we found Jonathan Pugsley, who we century opera, and Gilbert & Sullivan. He awarded to Aaron Berkowitz, Davide Ceri- especially that of Wagner. coached almost every hour of the day during came “for the strong sense of community ani, Ellen Exner, Mary Greitzer, Jonathan He looks forward to ex- Information: http://www.hcs.har- the first week, and who sang superbly for the among the highly-impressive student/fac- Kregor, Lei Liang, Evan MacCarthy, and panding into other areas, vard.edu/gradmus/index.php three performances. The opera was reviewed ulty body, along with the intellectually Jane Stanley. A reception honored them on including music cognition, [email protected] locally, and the DVD is now in production.” supportive and nurturing environment.

October 12. history of theory, and aton- ❖ And I stayed for the cookies.” Jesse Rodin and Daphna Davidson in Thailand al forensic criminology.

4 5 Graduate Student News Department Welcomes Eighteen Graduate Students Emily Abrams married Daniel Ansari in Hep- the BMI women’s music commission competi- The Music Department received a 100% acceptance rate in 2006, meaning that a record 18 new graduate penheim, Germany, and moved to London, tion. students joined us in September. Here’s a sampling of who they are and why they’re here. Ontario where Daniel was recently appointed At the recent SEM conference in Hono- Mariam Nazarian is a Assistant Professor in Psychology at the Univer- lulu, Katherine Lee was elected a member of concert pianist with inter- sity of Western Ontario. Emily will be teaching the board for the Association for Korean Music ests in J.S. Bach, 18th- and an undergraduate course at the same institution Research. 19th-century keyboard in the spring of 2007 entitled Music and Politics Mariam Nazarian’s upcoming perfor- literature, Armenian folk in the Twentieth Century. mances will include Mozart’s Concerto in E-flat music and liturgy, and Aaron Berkowitz’s piece Hawk from a Major, K. 482 (with own cadenzas) with the vocal jazz improvisation. handsaw was premiered by the Trio Ascolto in Princeton Symphony Orchestra on March 11, She came to Harvard for Berlin. With fellow graduate student Richard 2007, and a solo recital in Paine Hall on April the level of scholarship in Schwanenge- Giarusso he performed Schubert's 22, 2007. all fields, dialogue between multiple disciplines, sang on fortepiano in North Adams, a concert The Ensemble Phorminx (Germany) welcoming atmosphere, and resources. called, “one of the more exciting classical events premiered Karola Obermueller’s Red Lake Matthew Mugmon, a of the summer,” by Michael Miller in the pub- Fields 2 at Museum für Angewandte Kunst in former Classical Stud- lication, Berkshire Arts. David Trippet conducts Far from the Madding Crowd for Frankfurt and reflejos distantes (commissioned ies major and middle- Jean Francois Charles has been invited the Thomas Hardy Society Festival in Dorset. by the ensemble) for bass flute, bass clarinet, school teacher, chose to give lectures at the Sibelius Academy in Fin- Mekonnen, Michael Heller and Marc violin and violoncello in Tübingen and Darm- Harvard also for its Meredith Schweig studies the popular land this March. He will teach spectral sound Gidal—performed in the Dudley House jazz stadt. The world premiere of Kohlenmonoxyd resources and faculty. musics of Taiwan and China, particularly band’s fall concert on campus. The concert Nachtstück processing in real time within the Max/MSP/ (after the libretto of the same name) with respect to the subjects of identity forma- ranged from experimental jazz to traditional He’s interested in an- Jitter environment and other topics related to by Gabriele Strassmann will take place at the tion, the cultural dynamics of the cross-strait gospel to Ethio-jazz to klezmer-junk to big band tiphon borrowing in Ambrosian chant, Sting’s his current work. International Physicians for the Prevention of relationship, and the contemporary music works by Ellington, Oliver Nelson, Mongo San- political music, the changing definitions of the José Luis Hurtado’s compositions Nuclear War Congress at St. Sebald in Nurem- of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples. “I chose tamaria, and Kenny Garrett. Compositions and term “Symphonic Poem,” biographies of Wil- received performances in Japan, Mexico, The berg. Additionally, The Juventas Ensemble Harvard because the combined resources of arrangements by Heller, Mekonnen and Charles les sables mouvants liam Byrd circa 1923, the (dis)organization of Juilliard School and The University of Nevada, performed her in Cambridge the Music Department and Yenching Insti- were performed. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Book I, and the where he also lectured. He was the recipient and Boston. Obermueller received a fellowship tute make the University a fantastic place to Sheryl Kaskowitz and Marc Gidal were application of narrative theory to Monteverdi's of a Composers Assistance Grant from the for 2006–2008 in the Akademie Musiktheater pursue studies in East Asian music.” American Music Center. part of a panel presention on musical commu- heute from Deutsche Bank Stiftung and was late madrigals. He also likes Mahler a lot. On December 16 several music gradu- nities at the annual meeting of the Society for awarded a Fromm Music Foundation Com- Louis Epstein thinks ate students—Matthew Clayton, Mariam Ethnomusicology (SEM) in Hawaii this past mission for a piece for bass clarinet and piano. he'll write a dissertation Nazarian, Jean-Francois Charles, Danny Trippet Conducts Opera as November. Additionally, she received the Darmstadt Music on composers’ relation- part of Hardy Festival in U.K. Jonathan Kregor presented papers at Prize 2006. ships with political and the International Conference on Nineteenth- Jesse Rodin was the recipient of the non-musical artistic cur- David Trippett conducted the world Graduate Music Forum Century Music and at the national meetings of 2006 Paul A. Pisk Prize from the American rents in early 20th-cen- premiere of British composer Andrew Downes’ the Royal Musical Association and the American Musicological Society for his paper, “‘When tury France (he’s also a Music & Crisis opera Far from the Madding Crowd at the Musicological Society. in Rome...’: What Josquin Learned in the closet theorist), and chose Thomas Hardy Society Festival in Dorset, UK, Hannah Lash won honorable mention in Sistine Chapel.” Rodin also received an AMS Harvard for its “all-star in July. Trippet recounts: “The opera is in five 50 award to support his final dissertation work. faculty, tight-knit student March 10, 2007 acts, and is scored for chamber orchestra, lead On September 17 Rodin and fiancé Daphna community, exhaustive 9:30 am to 6:00 pm male and female roles, and two supporting male Davidson were married; the couple took time resources, and proximity Dudley House, Harvard University and female roles. The singers were all London- for a honeymoon in Thailand. to Bartley’s, that ham- based professionals, a couple were old friends Anna Zayaruznaya gave a conference burger joint in Harvard Square.” A day-long interdisciplinary from Cambridge, England, and others were Thomas Lin has degrees in Musicology paper, “Machaut’s Motets and the Mechanics graduate student conference gleaned from agents. We certainly had our own and Chemical Engineering and chose of Intelligibility,” at Kloster Neustift/Novacella Frank Lehman's interest little drama when the lead male singer dropped Harvard to pursue critical theory in the in Italy. in film music, both histori- Keynote speaker: out only a week before rehearsals were to begin Renaissance, the development of tonality Bok Center Certificates of Distinction for cal and technical, served as Christoph Wolff (the part was too hard). After two days of frantic in Italy, Enlightenment aesthetics, 19th- Excellence in Teaching for spring 2006 were an entry point into opera, Adams University Professor at Harvard enquiry, we found Jonathan Pugsley, who we century opera, and Gilbert & Sullivan. He awarded to Aaron Berkowitz, Davide Ceri- especially that of Wagner. coached almost every hour of the day during came “for the strong sense of community ani, Ellen Exner, Mary Greitzer, Jonathan He looks forward to ex- Information: http://www.hcs.har- the first week, and who sang superbly for the among the highly-impressive student/fac- Kregor, Lei Liang, Evan MacCarthy, and panding into other areas, vard.edu/gradmus/index.php three performances. The opera was reviewed ulty body, along with the intellectually Jane Stanley. A reception honored them on including music cognition, [email protected] locally, and the DVD is now in production.” supportive and nurturing environment.

October 12. history of theory, and aton- ❖ And I stayed for the cookies.” Jesse Rodin and Daphna Davidson in Thailand al forensic criminology.

4 5 Alumni News

K e n U e n o Arni Ingolffson (PhD ’03) used a two Caprice Corona (AB ’97) came (PhD 2005) month research leave from the Iceland Acad- performs in back to Boston in January to sing with the the annual emy of the Arts to travel to Copenhagen to Firebird Ensemble at RedBones BBQ in Christmas play study an Icelandic manuscript from the 16th Somerville. The second edition of MEAT at the Ameri- century. He will conduct the first Icelandic THE COMPOSER featured works by can Academy performance of the Victoria Requiem in in Rome. Ueno artists such as Ian Clarke, Disturbed, Jimi is currently a March. Hendrix, Rage Against the Machine, and ar- fellow there. Kiri Miller (PhD ’05) was recently rangements by Fred Sladkey and Jonathan appointed to the position of Assistant Pro- Bailey Holland (PhD ’01). fessor at Brown University. Miller is also the Patricia Tang’s (PhD ’01) Masters recipient of the Music Library Association of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Richard S. Hill Award for the best article of Senegal (African Soundscapes) was released a music-bibliographic nature for her article, in January, 2007 in both paperback and “‘First Sing the Notes’: Oral and Written hardcover editions from Temple University Traditions in Sacred Harp Transmission,” Press. American Music 22 (2004).

Loeb Music Donates Materials to Maxwell Music Library at Tulane

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit in Au- early December, Loeb Music sent a second the music library,” says Vick, “and they are gust 2005, the Music Library Association shipment with additional opera scores. working with deliveries from other libraries as (MLA) started a blog to keep music libraries Because of extensive damage, it took nearly a well. Some shipments have to be received off- informed about the status of the facilities, year for Maxwell to reach the point where it site. There are also staff and workflow issues collections, and staff at music libraries in could even receive donated materials. Housed because they need to unpack the boxes, get the New Orleans area. When the MLA in the basement of Tulane’s Howard-Tilton items on the shelves, and create the catalog- organized a donations process, Virginia Memorial Library, the music library was ing records.” Danielson, Richard F. French Librarian, flooded by eight feet of water that rendered Vick has since supplied Maxwell with and the public services staff at Loeb Music the space unusable. It now resides in a tem- additional inventory information and the Library immediately began delving through porary space. staff at Loeb Music Library plans to send a their collections to find suitable materials to At the time of the flooding, the music third shipment of books and scores soon—as contribute to the Maxwell Music Library at library held about 43,000 titles, includ- much as Maxwell can use to help rebuild its Tulane University to help rebuild its severely ing books, scores, journals, CDs, and LPs. collections. damaged collection. It managed to salvage about 70 percent —Liza Vick “We felt very fortunate that, here at Har- of its printed books, scores, and journals, vard, we were in a good position to donate but these required restoration, so in order Leonard Bertrand, Head, Maxwell Music Library and Doug- las Park, Library Technician, among the book donations from items and to help another music library un- to rebuild its collections, the library relied Harvard's Loeb Music Library. dergoing a difficult situation,” says Liza Vick, partially on selective donations. For Music Reference and Research Librarian, this reason, long before sending any who managed Loeb Music’s efforts and has scores, the public services staff at so far overseen two shipments of contributed Loeb Music—Vick, Christina Lin- materials. klater, Kerry Masteller, and Andrew Library staff packed up and mailed their Wilson—compiled a careful inven- first shipment—approximately 225 items in tory of all the books and scores they 10 boxes—in late summer. “We sent mainly could possibly contribute and then standard repertoire performing editions, sent the final inventory to Tulane. which are very useful for a library trying to The Maxwell Library staff were able get back on its feet,” explains Vick. Among to review the list and let the team at the items were paperback editions of full Harvard know what they could use. orchestral opera and vocal scores, chamber “The process takes some coordina- music scores, choral and keyboard works, tion on Maxwell’s part because the texts, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. In materials don’t always go straight to

6 ❖ Library News

Harvard College Libraries the Music Department have come to rely on him for rapid, discreet Names Masteller, Wilson 2006 service and for effective resolution Excellence in Service Recipients of difficulties in a professional, dignified, and courteous manner. Excerpted from “HCL Names 2006 Excellence in He has a strong ability to work as Service Award Recipients” by Jennifre Tomase. Photo: a team player or independently, HCL Communications employing excellent judgment and edication, enthusiasm, superb service, providing personalized service.

Dand creative problem-solving: these ❖ Kerry Masteller and Andrew Wilson (top row, from left), with Excel- trademark qualities are among those epito- lence in Service Award colleagues from across the University. mized by the recipients of the 2006 Excel- lence in Service Award, a merit-based honor Bach Archive Publishes Seven New Volumes in 2006 initiated last year by HCL Joint Council and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete of 1770 and the Dank-Hymne der Freund- Human Resource Services to publicly recog- Works, which published its first two volumes schaft of 1785. Meanwhile, the first volume to nize both full- and part-time employees who in 2005, brought out seven new volumes in appear, series III, volume 3, Orchester-Sinfonien go above and beyond the call of duty. 2006. As two additional musicologists joined mit zwölf obligaten Stimmen, edited by David “This award provides staff members the the editorial staff in late summer, the pace of Kidger, was named Best of Category for Profes- opportunity to recognize their colleagues production should increase further in an effort sional, Nonillustrated books at the 2006 Boston who consistently rise above challenges, create to finish the project by the 300th anniversary Book Fair, a tribute to the quality of the design opportunities, and contribute to HCL’s mis- of Bach’s birth in 2014. and workmanship of the volumes. sion, values, and goals,” says Sherrie Whang, Of particular interest to the music depart- The new members of the editoral staff Senior Human Resource Consultant. “Now ment community is series III, volume 2, Six are Laura Buch, who was on the faculty of in its second year, this program is successful Symphonies for Baron van Swieten, edited by Youngstown State University, and Jason B. thanks to the active participation of the HCL Sarah Adams, Keeper of the Isham Memorial Grant, who received his doctorate from the community and a strong commitment to the Library. These symphonies for string orches- University of Pittsburgh. They join Stephen C. spirit of the award.” tra, Wq 182 (H 657–662), were composed Fisher, Mark W. Knoll, and Paul Corneilson. Two of the honorees this year are Kerry in 1773 for Gottfried van Swieten, who was The editorial office works closely with the Masteller, Circulation Supervisor, and An- one of Bach’s greatest admirers (as well as a Isham Memorial Library and with the music drew Wilson, Public Services Associate, Loeb major supporter of Mozart, Haydn and the department. Professors Robert D. Levin and Music Library. Each honoree receives a $500 young Beethoven). Reportedly van Swieten Christoph Wolff are members of the editorial award. told Bach to allow his imagination free rein in board. A number of graduate students have Those recognized are commendable for these remarkable works, which were written worked in the office on Mt. Auburn Street at multiple reasons, say the HCL supervisors strictly for connoisseurs with no thought of such tasks as data entry and proofreading, the and colleagues who nominated them. Mas- commercial use. They were little known in 2006 crew consisting of David Black, Ellen teller has been instrumental in working as a Bach’s day and only began to appear in print Exner, Jonathan Kregor, and Gina Rivera. (We team with Wilson to handle major library in practical editions starting in the 1890s, none are always looking for extra student help; those transitions at Loeb Music, as well as chal- of them entirely reliable (ask Sarah to show you interested might contact Karen Rynne [rynne@ lenging day-to-day issues, in order to keep the measure she published for the first time!). fas.harvard.edu], who can provide informa- the library running smoothly and efficiently. This is the first critical edition of these sympho- tion.) The office has also become a stop on the She provides creative and thorough reference nies, based on the autographs and performing itinerary of the “Introduction to Historical Mu- service, aids in providing updates about the material from Bach’s library. The Academy sicology” class for first-year graduate students, library for the web and the library’s research of Ancient Music has already performed two with presentations both on high-tech aspects of guide, and serves as a member of various of the symphonies from the new edition and the project and on more traditional topics such library teams and committees. She skillfully performing material for all of them is available as source studies. anticipates problems and implements solu- upon request. Stephen C. Fisher tions, meanwhile contributing ideas for bet- The other volumes that appeared in 2006 Staff Editor,Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The ter service and for the future of the library. included two of keyboard music and two of Complete Works Wilson, likewise, has been vital to Loeb concertos (six for keyboard and two for oboe), Music, working in tandem with Masteller in versions that likewise restore aspects of the to ably respond to both major transitions original text that other editions have not always For further information on the edition, or to and demanding day-to-day situations at the retained, and two previously unpublished large order volumes at generously subsidized prices, library. In addition, faculty and students in choral works, the Passion according to St. Mark please see http://www.cpebach.org

7 Composer's Orchestra Concert Premieres New Works

Three new works by Harvard graduate students were performed under Jeffrey Milarsky’s direction by an impressive roster of Boston’s finest new music players. A CD of the concert will be available soon. Left: Van Herck, Lash, Milarsky, and Kreppein at rehearsal.

Orchestral works by graduate students Ulrich specific influence on my own composition, rehearsal process? Were there any surprises? Kreppein (Paysage Noctuelle), Hannah Lash though. Kreppein: The rehearsal process was really among (Leave), and Bert Van Herck (Nessuno Sen- Kreppein: I was in fact interested in different the most delightful experiences I ever had with tiva) were played by a 45-piece professional aspects in this piece that come from the structure my music. Jeff was wonderfully conducting orchestra and conducted by New York-based of movies. I especially had the idea of “cutting” and the players were very good and—in my contemporary music specialist Jeffrey Milar- different material in a form of a montage to- opinion—outstandingly committed. In my sky on November 18 thanks to the generous gether, in order to create a feeling of different piece, there are many extended techniques and initiative of New York businessman Barry music happening at the same time, while still I often experienced reluctance from musicians, Cohen (’74, JD ’78, MBA ’78). Each work keeping the music sufficiently transparent. This but this time it seemed to me that all players was played twice, with composers’ comments idea in fact has its roots in the music of Charles tried their best to not only play them but to in between. “We want to bring this work out Ives or Bernd-Alois Zimmermann as well as play them beautifully. of the contemporary music ghetto into a more Hans Jürgen von Bose. public arena,” said Professor Julian Anderson. Q: What was it like to listen to your work being “Why does this music sound like it does, what Q: How long did you work on the piece? Was played? twice? are the composers trying to say?” this your first orchestral piece or one of many? Lash: I really was glad the program was repeated. Van Herck: I first worked on the piece in May for I felt the second time was stronger and more Kreppein, Lash, and Van Herck talk briefly about the final reading session of Professor Fineberg’s relaxed. their work and the performances. orchestration class. In June I extended it for the Van Herck: If one has one performance, that Q: Were you influenced by any other work? composition workshop of Acanthes in Metz interpretation is the only realization of the e.g., other composers, teachers, mentors, other (France), and then finally in September I re- piece. Having the opportunity to listen twice artforms or ideas? worked and extended the piece once more. we could get an idea how the piece could be Lash: I feel that we are creatively comprised of Kreppein: My piece was finished (as many oth- interpreted differently. This does not only refer not only our own sensibilities, but more than ers...) directly before the deadline, which was to the playing of the musicians, but also to the that, of an amalgam of all the music and/or October first. attitude of the listeners: it is a different experi- other artforms that have touched us. I don't ence when an audience listens to a piece that it think I could or would want to try to site a Q: What did you find interesting about the already “knows.”

8 Undergraduate News Bernstein’s Boston to Broadway, Barenboim’s Sound & Thought

Michael Givey ’06 received the Felicia A three-day celebration at Harvard, “Leonard Bernstein: Bos- Eckstein-Lipson Grant from the Office for ton to Broadway” (Oct. 12–14) explored the early influences the Arts to stage an historically-informed on the man who by mid-century was maestro to the world: production of Charpentier’s 17th-century His father Samuel’s singing; the rich music of his Roxbury opera, Actéon, with the Harvard Early Mu- synagogue; Jewish folk and liturgical music; amateur experi- sic Society. ments with musical theater; a lineup of piano teachers (whose David Daniels, ’09, received an Office artistic lineage traces back to Beethoven); and the wider for the Arts grant to produce a perormance musical world of Boston that nurtured Bernstein’s genius. Antoniou Eric Photo: celebrating the Harvard Pops Orchestra’s The event was part of a wave of 10th anniversary. new Bernstein scholarship. It was directed by William Powell Mason Professor Carol Oja and Please send your news! Judith Clurman (The Juilliard School), in collaboration with We are happy to hear from Harvard’s Office for the Arts. you at any time. Write us at “Boston to Broadway” was conceived two years ago and [email protected] brought into focus by Professors 617-495-2791 Oja and Kay Kaufman Shelemay’s BelcherPhoto: Jacob spring 2006 seminar “Before West Top: Bernstein children Jamie Bernstein Thomas, Alexander Bernstein, and Nina Side Story: Leonard Bernstein’s Bernstein Simmons. Below: Harold Shapero greets Vivian Perlis; Sid Ramin and Harvard graduate student interviewer Emily Ansari are in the background. Boston.” The seminar explored Ethnomusicology graduate student Petra Gelbart Bernstein’s musical roots in New England and was timed to get students involved in shaping “Boston with husband Matthew and son Patrick at the to Broadway,” an intensive series of symposia (10), exhibits (three), and concerts (two). The record- annual holiday party; impromptu singers on the ings, video, and research from the seminar--along with videotapes of the recent festival--have been outdoor deck. deposited in the Loeb Music Library. On October12, the Bernstein family turned Paine Hall into their living room, regaling a sold-out crowd with funny stories. “The Bernstein family was always a lot of laughs,” said Burton Bernstein, younger than Leonard by 14 years, and a onetime New Yorker staff writer. “A combination of very bad taste and hysteria.” That night, a sold-out concert at Paine starred a dozen Harvard student musicians and the 29 Harvard Bernstein Festival Singers, conducted by Clurman. The concert’s theme was the young Bernstein, and it included selections that early on inspired him: a composition by Mishkan Tefila musical director Solomon Braslavsky; works by Aaron Coland, Marc Blitzstein and George Gershwin; and Shapero’s “Four Hand Sonata for Piano.” The show included the world premiere of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” as arranged by a teenage Bernstein in 1937 for a summer camp rhythm band and discovered, during the course of the seminar, by Harvard music graduate student Ryan Banagale. On October 14, the 16th anniversary of Bernstein’s death, music, reminiscences, and laughter closed the three-day festival. A “Celebrating Bernstein” concert in Sanders Theatre sampled Bernstein’s mature work--with all the early influences (Jewish synagogue music, jazz, Gershwin) intact. There were selections fom “Mass” (1971) and “Kaddish” (1963), and bits of “Chichester Psalms” (1965), including the Hebrew version of a scat-like riff that landed on the cutting-room floor during the making of “West The Bernstein festival . . . was Side Story.” The concert ended with two numbers from framed just the way it should that legendary stage and screen production. have been—with laughter and Exposure to Bernstein opened new doors for the music at either end. young Harvard scholars, singers and instrumentalists at the core of the celebration. Before long, said Clurman, the students paid the maestro the highest compliment: To view the Bernstein video: http://www. They added his music to their ipods. hno.harvard.edu/multimedia/video_ mm.html

—Adapted from the Corydon Ireland, Harvard Gazette Bernstein, Barenboim continued on next page

Bernstein, Barenboim continued n each of his six Norton lectures entitled “Sound Iand Thought,” maestro Daniel Barenboim began by playing four preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well- Tempered Clavier. Music, he argued, was not just a part of life—an aesthetic joy, or even a metaphor—but a model for life. “Conflict, difference of opinion, is the very essence of music...our capacity [as musicians] is to bring all the different elements together in a sense of a proportion so that they lead to a sense of the whole,” said Barenboim. Orchestral performance, he stated, can be compared to a “practical Utopia, from which we might learn about expressing ourselves freely and hearing one another.” Even world politics can be parsed through a musical lens: “You cannot make music through politics," agrees Barenboim, “but perhaps you can give political thinking an example through music.” For we, the au- Macarah Sarah Photo: dience, Barenboim D. A. Flentrop Organ 1958 also had a charge: to employ “the moral Buxtehude Tercentenary responsibliity of the ear.” Listening we at Harvard can't help, as we The Complete Organ Works of don’t have “earlids,” Dieterich Buxtehude but hearing, he says, Adolphus Busch Hall “is listening with 8:00 pm thought.” James David Christie Organist Christoph Wolff,Advisor

Performances of the complete organ works of Buxtehude are presented by Harvard University Art Museums, The Memorial Church, Harvard Organ Society, and the Harvard University Department of Music and supported in part by the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Collaborations.

Concert V

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Concert VI

Monday, March 19, 2007 ❖

Concert VII

Monday, April 2, 2007 ❖

Besides the six Norton Lectures, Daniel Barenboim met with several groups of students in the music department, and, through the Office for the Arts, led a master class with the Harvard Piano Society and and open rehearsal of the HRO Concert VIII Photos: Mark Thomson. Monday, April 23, 2007

10 department of music spring 2007 calendar of events romm Thursday, February 8 5:15 in room 2 music-history-context lecture: Players carol oja Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town: at Harvard Conception, Reception, Politics F Sunday, February 10 at 8 pm 3.22–3.23 2007 Harvard Group for New Music New works by composers of the HGNM performed by Ensemble White Rabbit new music

Friday, March 16 at 8 pm Blodgett Chamber Music Series The Ying Quartet Mozart Quartet in B flat, K. 458 Paul Moravec LifeMusic Commission Dohnanyi Piano Quintet No. 1 in c minor, www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html Op. 1 Concert Line: 617-496-6013 Friday, April 13 at 8 pm Blodgett Chamber Music Series The Ying Quartet Mozart Quartet in D Major, K. 575 Thursday March 22 Guest artists Tolga Yayalar String Quartet No. 2 Monica Germino, violin Smetana Quartet No. 1 “From My Life” Andriessen Zilver Christina Zavalloni, Saturday, April 28 at 8 pm Berger Collage III soprano Harvard Group for New Music Hyla Amnesia Variance Works by Harvard student composers Cage Sixteen Dances Thursday May 3 at 7pm Louis C. Elson Lecture

Friday March 23

Andriessen Bells for Haarlem Andriessen Passeggiata in Tram in America E Ritorno Andriessen La Passione Schuller Densities Schuller Concerto Da Camera

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n April 13, 2007 the Harvard Univer- 8:30–9:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Osity Department of Music, Graduate 9:15 Welcoming Remarks School Alumni Association, and Harvard 9:30 Teaching Music in the 21st Century Alumni Association cordially invite you to Thomas Forrest Kelly, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, a day-long gathering of music department Hans Tutschku. Moderated by Alexander Rehding alumnae and friends. Join us for scholarly 11:15 New Frontiers in Musical Study: A Faculty and Student Collaboration panels, luncheon, cocktail reception, and a Ingrid Monson, Carol Oja, Anne Shreffler, Blodgett Chamber Music Series concert fea- moderated by Mauro Calcagno turing the Ying Quartet. 12:30 Luncheon, Dudley House, Lehman Hall 2:30 Scholarship and Performance All events are free, and take place in the Mu- Joshua Fineberg, Ingrid Monson, Christoph sic Building unless otherwise noted. Register Wolff, moderated by Julian Anderson by Friday, April 6 to reserve your space. For 4:30 Reception, Spalding Reading Room, information on lodging, parking, and the Music Library details of GSAS Alumni Day (Saturday, 8:00 Blodgett Chamber Music Series Concert: Ying Quartet April 14, 2007), please call the Graduate Mozart Quartet in D Major, K. 575 School Alumni Association at 617-495-5591 Tolga Yayalar String Quartet #2 Smetana Quartet No. 1 “From My Life” or write [email protected].