Year in Review 2019—2020 • INSTITUTE OF SACRED MUSIC Table of Contents From the Director’s Desk 1 ISM Community 2 Students and Alumni 6 Program Highlights 9 Other Events 15 Publications 19 Appendix: 2019-2020 Colloquium Presentations 20 Cover photo, top: ID 124681326 (c) Coconutdreams, Dreamstime.com. Column Ornament of Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin in Cusco, Peru Cover photo, bottom: Richard Peralta, Rafael From the Director’s Desk While the purpose of retiring colleague, Prof. Marguerite Brooks. Students this document is to graduated having lost out on the many opportunities give a bird’s-eye view they were working towards. The events of the summer into the work at ISM in quickly followed, as the outrage around the deaths of the 2019-20 academic George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks year, we do so this year was heard throughout the world. from the vantage point A constant source of inspiration for us throughout of a mid-December these months have been our students who have publication date. It goes adapted to new modes of learning, never slackening without saying that much their productivity. They have attended to new health has transpired between protocols for the sake of themselves, each other, and Commencement 2020 our neighbors. They have called us to action for our and now. own complicity in racial injustice and inequity. They As you can read here, have brought fresh ideas to the classroom and studio, the year was filled with the usual rota of worship and they have built new relationships in a time where services, courses, student and ensemble performances, isolation is the norm. guest lectures, fellows’ events, and more. Each was I hope you will glimpse the energy of not just the a wonderful example of the breadth of work that brilliant young artists and scholars within these comes under the ISM’s umbrella. For most of the pages, but also of the faculty, fellows, and guests year, our attention was turned toward Peru which from the wider university and beyond who together was to have been the destination of our study trip. form the interdisciplinary community that is the ISM. Meanwhile, our concert office, in partnership with We are proud of them and grateful for the work they the Yale Philharmonia and London Bach Choir, was accomplished during a uniquely challenging year. As I busily preparing a five-concert tour of the northeast in continue in the privileged role of director for another th celebration of the School of Music’s 125 anniversary. term, I re-commit myself to making the ISM a brave Come March, the cancellations and disappointments and safe place where everyone can thrive. came in rapid succession as we backed away from Happy reading. all travel, moved to remote teaching for everyone, and cancelled events and concerts one after another, Martin Jean including the final performance of our beloved Director 1 ISM Community 2019-2020 Faculty (with course titles) CHORAL CONDUCTING Henry Parkes, Associate Professor (fall 2019) Marguerite L. Brooks, Associate Professor, Adj. History of Western Music: Middle Ages and Renaissance Individual Instruction and Seminar – Choral Conducting The Liturgy, Ritual, and Chant of Medieval England Recital Chorus, Repertory Chorus, Yale Camerata (Sarum Use) with Bryan Spinks David Hill, Professor (Adj.) and Principal Conductor Markus Rathey, Professor in the Practice of Yale Schola Cantorum Music and Theology in the 16th Century Individual Instruction and Seminar – Choral Conducting Sacred Music: Unity and Diversity Yale Schola Cantorum Music before 1750 In the Face of Death: Worship, Music, Art ORGAN PERFORMANCE (with Teresa Berger) Jeffrey Brillhart, Lecturer Improvisation at the Organ LITURGICAL STUDIES , Professor Martin D. Jean, Professor, ISM Director Teresa Berger Individual Instruction and Seminar – Organ Catholic Liturgy Performance Class Worship, Cosmos, Creation ISM Colloquium In the Face of Death: Worship, Music, Art (with Markus Rathey) Jon Laukvik, Visiting Professor of Organ Daily Prayer Individual Instruction and Seminar – Organ Performance Class Melanie C. Ross, Associate Professor Foundations of Christian Worship Walden Moore, Lecturer Liturgical Theology Liturgical Keyboard Skills (with Mark Miller) American Evangelical Worship Baptism and Eucharist in Ecumenical Dialogue VOCAL PERFORMANCE Bernarda Fink, Lecturer in Voice (fall 2019) Bryan D. Spinks, Professor (on leave, spring 2020) Individual Instruction and Seminar – Voice The Books of Common Prayer Vocal Chamber Music The Liturgy, Ritual, and Chant of Medieval England (Sarum Use) with Henry Parkes Jeffrey Grossman, Lecturer Early Music Coaching for Singers RELIGION AND THE VISUAL ARTS Performance Practice for Singers Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Visiting Associate Professor Ethan Heard, Lecturer (spring 2020) Acting for Singers Visual and Material Cultures of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian and Colonial Andes Tomoko Nakayama, Lecturer Art Song Coaching for Singers Örgü Dalgic, Lecturer (fall 2019) Islamic Art and Architecture in the Mediterranean James Taylor, Professor in the Practice (on leave, fall 2019) Felicity Harley, Lecturer (fall 2019) Individual Instruction and Seminar – Voice Cult of Mary: Early Christian and Byzantine Art Vocal Chamber Music (with Vasileios Marinis) , Associate Professor SACRED MUSIC Vasileios Marinis From House Churches to Medieval Cathedrals: Carl P. Daw, Jr., Lecturer (fall 2019) Christian Art and Architecture from the Third Century Hymns and Their Music to the End of Gothic Mark Miller, Lecturer Cult of Mary: Early Christian and Byzantine Art Marquand Gospel and Inspirational Choir (with Felicity Harley) Liturgical Keyboard Skills (with Walden Moore) Art of the Chora Monastery (with Robert Nelson) Visual Controversies: Religion and the Politics of Vision MUSIC HISTORY (with Sally Promey) , Lecturer (spring 2020) Bo Kyung Blenda Im , Professor Music and Christianity in Korea Sally M. Promey Religion and Museums Sacred Sounds: Key Issues in the Visual Controversies: Religion and the Politics of Vision Ethnomusicology of Religion (with Vasileios Marinis) Religion and the Performance of Space (with Margaret Olin) ISM Community CONTINUED Faculty CONTINUED RELIGION AND LITERATURE Peter Hawkins retired as Professor Emeritus of Peter S. Hawkins, Professor (fall 2019) Religion and Literature at the end of 2019. In Human Image: Classical and Biblical October, Prof. Hawkins gave the 2019 Pitt Lecture, entitled Dante’s Commedia: From Despair to Hope to Ronald S. Jenkins, Visiting Professor (fall 2019) Performance behind Bars: Sacred Music, Sacred Texts, Glory, as part of Berkeley Divinity School’s annual and Social Justice Convocation and Reunion. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Berkeley David Mahan, Lecturer Divinity School. The ISM community saluted Prof. Reading Poetry Theologically Hawkins’s many contributions to teaching and Imagining the Apocalypse: Scripture, Fiction, Film scholarship—and to convivial community—at its Literary Appropriations: Writers and Philosophers in holiday party in December. Conversations (with John Hare) Martin Jean was reappointed by Yale President Peter Marilynne Robinson, Visiting Professor (spring 2020) Salovey as director of the Institute of Sacred Music for Shakespeare in Theological Context a new five-year term through June 2025. Prof. Jean Christian Wiman, Professor in the Practice has served in that role since 2005. (on leave, spring 2020) Vasileios Marinis’ most recent publications are Poetry and Faith two peer-reviewed articles: “Joseph Bryennios and Creative Faith: Poetry Eschatological Theology in Late Byzantium,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (2020); and “Asterius of Amaseia’s Ekphrasis on the Holy Martyr Euphemia,” Journal of Late Antiquity (2020). Thomas Murray joined Oklahoma University’s Prof. Faculty News John Schwandt for an Organ Historical Society (OHS) Teresa Berger edited the newly-published the volume Symposium focusing on the work and aesthetic of of papers from the 2018 ISM Liturgy Conference: renowned organ builder Ernest Skinner. In addition Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation, ed. Teresa to lectures presented by Murray and Schwandt, two Berger (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, December students of Alan Morrison from the Curtis School 2019), for which she wrote the introduction. The of Music in Philadelphia were heard in a masterclass, volume received an Honorable Mention in the playing the Aeolian-Skinner organ in Stoneleigh, the “Faith and Science” category of the Catholic Press new OHS headquarters at Villanova, Pennsylvania. Association’s 2020 Book Awards. Her sermon “All Are Henry Parkes accepted a position as associate Welcome? A Sermon,” was published in Liturgy with professor with tenure in the faculty of music at the a Difference: Beyond Inclusion in the Christian Assembly, University of Nottingham, beginning in January ed. Stephen Burns and Bryan Cones (London: SCM 2020. The move marks a return to his native England Press, 2019). Prof. Berger lectured at the Catholic- with his wife Rachel Parkes and their two children, Theological Faculty of the University of Münster, George and Stella. Germany, in December 2019 on “Liturgie digital— Sally Promey completed her term as senior co-mentor digitale Liturgie: Reflexionen zu gottesdienstlichen (with Sylvester Johnson) to the Young Scholars in Vollzügen in Bits & Bytes.” American Religion Program. She participated in two Marguerite L. Brooks retired in June 2020 after thirty- new scholarly inquiries