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Musicology at Eastman Annual Newsletter of the Musicology Department Musicology at Eastman Annual Newsletter of the Musicology Department Fall 2015 Rochester, New York Women and Music dedicated to the career and influence A Word from the Chair of Suzanne Cusick, with whom they both worked when they were all at The University of Virginia. I am honored once again this Patrick Macey’s long work on Josquin’s chansons was year to be able to greet all reflected in the publication of his erudite but performer- the friends and alumni of the friendly volume of the composer’s six-voice works for the Musicology Department at New Josquin Edition (vol. 30). Reaching beyond our dis- Eastman. It has been a year cipline, Patrick prepared an essay for a published cata- of great accomplishment for logue at the High Museum in Atlanta on the occasion of the department but also one an exhibition of panels from Luca della Robbia’s organ of great change. I am pleased loft for the Duomo in Florence. With great personal re- to be able to share here some gret, I also have to report that Patrick has announced his of the highlights. retirement after this academic year. While I am excited By any measure, Ralph for him as he begins a new (and freer) chapter of his life, I Locke has had an extraordi- will miss his daily wisdom, guidance, and friendship. nary year. His newest book, Michael Anderson won his second ASCAP-Deems Tay- Music and the Exotic from lor/Virgil Thomson award, this time for his article in the Renaissance to Mozart, JAMS (66/3) “The One Who Comes After Me: John the came out from Cambridge University Press, a prequel of Baptist, Christian Time, and Symbolic Musical Tech- sorts to his highly successful Musical Exoticism: Images niques.” He has also just published The Singing Irish: A and Reflections (2009). The Journal of Musicological Re- History of the Notre Dame Glee Club (UND Press), chron- search dedicated an issue (vol. 34, no. 3) to Ralph with a icling an ensemble of which he is an alum. Both he and series of articles on the theme of “The Hidden Soundtrack in the Nineteenth Century.” Closer to home, he received the University’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Graduate AMS Alumni Reception Education. And finally, after forty years at Eastman, Ralph decided to retire so as to spend more time with his The Eastman Alumni Reception will take place family. Even after such a long career, Ralph’s retirement Friday, November 13, 2015 came as a surprise: to many—both within and outside our 9—11 p.m. department—it remains difficult to imagine Eastman Willis Room without him. For me, Ralph’s generosity, dedication, and at the Galt House Hotel, Louisville, KY brilliance have helped define our department and our School, and I already miss his daily presence (and A Word from the Chair ............................................ 1 emails!). Fortunately, he is still living in Rochester and Eastman Party at AMS ............................................ 1 remains involved with departmental events. Also fortu- Faculty News ............................................................ 3 nately, the School has authorized a search (now in pro- Forty Years at Eastman, Remarks by Ralph Locke.. 9 gress), and so although an era is ending, we look to the News of Robert Freeman......................................... 9 future with excitement. (Please see elsewhere in this issue In Remembrance: Daniel Albright ........................ 10 Ralph’s remarks at the unveiling of his portrait in the In Remembrance: Ernest Livingstone……………… . 10 Cominsky Promenade.) Note from GMA Presidents……………………………. .. 11 While none of the rest of us have had years quite so Student News ........................................................... 11 eventful, everyone has indeed been busy. I am thrilled to Student Achievements and Awards ........................ 14 note that Melina Esse was promoted to associate profes- Alumni/ae News ...................................................... 15 sor with tenure. Melina has long been such a vital mem- Ethnomusicology MA Degrees Granted …………. ... 17 ber of our department that it was gratifying to see the PhD Degrees Granted …………………………………… .. 18 University recognize her. As if to validate that decision, AMS Schedule .......................................................... 19 Melina promptly won the Alfred Einstein Award from the Eastman Studies in Music ....................................... 20 AMS—for outstanding article from a scholar in the early Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology . 22 stages of her/his career—for her “Encountering the im- University of Rochester Press ................................. 23 provvisatrice in Italian Opera” (JAMS, 66/3). She also co- Fellowship and Award Funds ................................. 24 authored a paper with Holly Watkins for a special issue of Musicology at Eastman Page 1 Honey Meconi presented papers at a conference titled our work at Eastman, and they too have been remarkably The Past, Present, and Future of Public Musicology (held active and widely recognized. (For more details, see the at Westminster Choir College). Honey also presented listing of Student Achievements and Awards.) Jacek quite a number of other papers in more Renaissance- Blaszkiewicz won a Fulbright Fellowship, an AMS M. oriented fora. And in addition to an article in the Cam- Elizabeth C. Bartlet Travel Grant, and a Glenn Watkins bridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music (for which Pat- Traveling Fellowship, all to support dissertation research rick Macey also wrote), she published two contributions this year in France. Sarah Fuchs Sampson won the AAUW to the edited collection dissertation fellowship, the Meerstemmigheid in Eastman Teaching Assistant Beeld: Zeven Meester- prize, and the award for best werken uit het Atelier paper by a young scholar at van Petrus Alamire. the first Transnational Opera Honey is also the new Studies Conference in Bolo- chair of the College gna. Austin Richey won the Music Department at T. Temple Tuttle Prize for the River Campus. best student paper at the Holly Watkins enjoyed Niagara Chapter Meeting of an ACLS fellowship the SEM and, along with during the 2014–15 Beiliang Zhu, one of the first academic year and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork used the time to work Grants from Eastman. Eric on a new book manu- Lubarsky received this year’s script. She presented Elsa T. Johnson dissertation several papers based fellowship, while Naomi on that work at venues Gregory won the Ball Disser- in the US and abroad, tation Fellowship. Aaron and her contribution to James was awarded the Ed- the session Sarah Fuchs Sampson with Melina Esse, receives best graduate student paper ward Peck Curtis Award for “Psychoanalysis and award at the first Transnational Opera Studies Conference in Bologna, Italy. Excellence in Teaching by a Music: A (Sexual) Re- Graduate Student. And for lationship?” at last year’s AMS meeting appeared in her dissertation on Handel’s recitative style, Regina Opera Quarterly (31/1-2). Lisa Jakelski has submitted her Compton won the Internationaler Händel- book manuscript, “The Warsaw Autumn Festival: Making Forschungspreis 2015, as part of which she presented a New Music in Cold War Poland,” and is now just awaiting paper at the Händel-Festspiele in Halle. the green light. She also published an article—“Pushing Although alumni news appears further below, I want Boundaries: Mobility at the Warsaw Autumn Internation- to highlight just a few of many happy reports. Two recent al Festival of Contemporary Music”—in the interdiscipli- graduates have published books: Sylvia Alajaji (PhD ’09), nary journal East European Politics and Societies. This Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home past summer, Ellen Koskoff traveled to Bali, Finland, and in Exile (Indiana University Press); and Marie Sumner Israel, all for professional reasons (no personal pleasure, Lott (PhD '08), The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century I’m sure). And she contributed “Is ‘White Christmas’ a Chamber Music: Composers, Consumers, Communities Piece of Jewish Music?” to the collection Jewish Music in (Univ. of Illinois Press). Also, Martin Nedbal has been the Americas. She continues as editor of Ethnomusicolo- promoted to associate professor (with tenure) at the Uni- gy. Jennifer Kyker was on a junior leave in 2014–15 and versity of Arkansas, and Jeremy Grimshaw has taken on used the time to finish and submit her book manuscript, administrative duties at Brigham Young University as one “Oliver Mtukudzi: Living ‘Tuku Music’ in Zimbabwe,” of the associate deans of the College of Fine Arts and which is now in press. She gave a paper at the conference Communication. of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and she has directed As usual, a rich roster of speakers visited us this year, and performed with Zimbabwean Marimba and mbira sharing a variety of new work. Jonathan Glixon (Univ. of ensembles at Eastman. Our emeriti have continued to Kentucky) presented “Opera On and Off the Venetian prove their “merits,” with Jürgen Thym editing the pro- Stage (in a Prologue and Three Acts)”; Hilary Poriss ceedings of an earlier conference as a book of essays, (Northeastern) considered a trove of new documents in Mendelssohn, the Organ and the Music of the Past: Con- “The Prima Donna as Memoirist: Pauline Viardot's Sou- structing Historical Legacies (UR Press) and Kerala venirs”; Sarah Ross (Univ. of Bern), spoke of “Tracing the Snyder publishing her long-awaited database catalogue, Minhag Ashkenaz in Swiss Synagogue Music: Advocates The Choir Library of St. Mary's in Lübeck. I’m also happy
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