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 Novembe
Christian Baldini received a “Very Good” review for conducting
the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Buenos Aires from La
Nacion newspaper. The program was:
Alejandro Civilotti: Elegía por Julia Ponce
Sant-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Strauss: Don Juan
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has given D. Kern
Holoman an award in excellence in “Historical Recorded Sound
Research in Classical Music” for his book Charles Munch (Oxford
University Press, 2012). The book features an
online appendix,Charles Munch—The Recorded Legacy,
which examines the expansive discography that the conductor was
responsible for.
San Francisco Classical Voice reviewed the first-ever entirely
percussion recital (“Carte Blanche”) at Music@Menlo, featuring UC
Davis’s own Chris Froh, with Ayano Kataoka and Ian Rosenbaum.
Valerio Morucci has won the 2013 Ingolf Dahl Award for his paper
“Secular Patronage at the Orsini Court: Music, Poetry, and the
Rhetoric of Early Monody,” from the Pacific Southwest Chapter of
the American Musicological Society.
