Professor Anna Maria Busse Berger has earned two national awards
for her article, “Spreading the Gospel of Singbewegung:
An Ethnomusicologist Missionary in Tanganyika of the 1930s,”
which appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological
Society, (University of California Press, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp.
475–522). With these two awards and her 2006 award from the
Society for Music Theory, Busse Berger has been given the top
scholarly prize from all three major music societies in the
United States.
Chris Reynolds, faculty in the Music department
and recipient of the 2013 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate
Teaching and Research, is featured on the One
World, One UC Davis
page. Professor Reynolds is recognized for
his impact on students, teaching them how to develop and
apply critical thinking skills using a subject that inspires and
engages them — great music.
Join the Harvard University
Department of Music presentation October 24-26, 2014.
Professor Katherine In-Young Lee will be delivering a paper
entitled: “Ethnography of the Transnational”
The American Musicological Society and the Music Division of the
Library of Congress are pleased to present a series of lectures
highlighting musicological research conducted in the division’s
collections.
Pete Nowlen, artistic adviser for Music in the Mountains, is
featured in this half-hour River
Music documentary, which premiered on KVIE. It
documents the Music in the Mountains 2013–14 Young Composers
Program. With funding from the Getty and Volgenau Foundations,
the 24 teenage student composers studied a science curriculum
with the Sierra Streams Institute focusing on the Yuba River and
the restoration of its salmon run. The student composers then
wrote music with this inspiration.
Assistant Professor Katherine In-Young Lee received a
2014–15 Hellman Fund Fellowship at UC Davis.
The Hellman Family Foundation contributed funds to establish the
UC Davis Hellman Fellows Program to provide support and
encouragement for the research of promising assistant professors
who exhibit potential for great distinction in their research.
Assistant Professor Katherine In-Young Lee was awarded a
Davis Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship Award
for 2014–2015. Her project title is “Dynamic Korea, Dynamic
Samulnori: An Ethnography of a Transnational Percussion
Genre.”
The purpose of the fellowship is to further the research or
creative work of faculty in the humanities and humanistic social
sciences and allow them to meet and work with colleagues in other
disciplines and departments. The fellowship will provide
recipients with a single quarter research leave in spring 2015.
Professor Carol Hess was one of this year’s NEH Summer Stipend
recipients. Her project is titled “Aaron Copland, Cultural
Diplomacy, and Latin America.” In late March, NEH announced
$18.2
million in awards and offers for 208 humanities
projects.
“Earth, Water, Science, and Song,” a Science and Society
course, is described in a California Aggie article
on March 13. The class connects the arts with the sciences,
teaching students environmental science while they also learn how
to write music and create songs. Ethnomusicology graduate
student Sarah Messbauer was the Teaching Assistant for SAS
42 during Winter Quarter 2014.
The Music Library Association’s 2014 Richard S. Hill Award was
awarded to Christopher Reynolds for his article,
“Documenting the Zenith of Women Song Composers: A Database of
Songs Published in the United States and the British
Commonwealth, ca. 1890–1930,” published in
Notes (June, 2013). The award is given “for the
best article on music librarianship or best article of a
music-bibliographic nature.”
Given to “composition students of great promise,” William David Cooper is among six composers
that will receive a $7,500 Charles Ives Scholarship from the
Academy of Arts and Letters. The awards were announced as part of
the 2014 awards for sixteen composers.
Chris Froh and two UC
Davis percussion students recently travelled to the Stanford
University School of Medicine for a special lecture-demonstration
on Thierry de Mey’s percussion trio, Table Music. The
setting was a clinical anatomy seminar (“Anatomy in Society”)
taught by Professor Bruce Fogel (Stanford).
Jessie Ann Owens, dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and
Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis,
announced that she is stepping down on June 30, 2014, at the end
of her eighth year of service as dean. She is the longest-serving
dean in the nearly 20-year history of the division, which is part
of the College of Letters and Science. A musicologist and
professor of music, she will join the faculty following a year of
research leave.
Professor Beth
Levy is among this year’s 10 Chancellor’s fellows. Each fellow
receives a $25,000 award, and is recognized as a Chancellor’s
Fellow for five years.
Under the direction of Jeffrey Thomas, the
American Bach Soloists today announced the release of an
all-Handel album featuring soprano Mary Wilson. The works on the
album are:
Kurt Rohde has received a Copland House Residency
Award. Rohde is among eight American composers and five from
Great Britain to receive the 2013 award. Among the American
winners are Nicholas Omiccioli, a participant in UC Davis’s
“Migration and Music” festival in 2013, as well as Christopher
Theofanidis, whose piano quintet is to be performed by the
Empyrean Ensemble as part of the Festival of New American Music
(FeNAM) at Sacramento State University and on the Empyrean
Ensemble’s November 22 concert
at the Mondav