Music

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.

Katherine In-Young Lee is invited to participate in a workshop at this year’s mentoring conference on Korean Studies, held at USC October 10-11, 2014.

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 Japan/Korea Music Symposium will explore interconnections in Korean and Japanese popular music in the latter half of the 20th century. This symposium is the first in what will be a series of events at Columbia over the next several years aimed at exploring connections in scholarly work on Korea and Japan. The symposium will feature introductory and concluding remarks by Michael Bourdaghs and three panels, each composed of two scholars working on music and sound in Korea/Japan.

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.

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.

Open to the public, the series is held in the Library’s famed Coolidge Auditorium in the Jefferson Building. It is the same room that Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring premiered in, with Martha Graham.

Carol Hess describes her lecture as follows:

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.” 

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. 

Jeffrey Thomas graduated from Juilliard in 1981 with a focus in vocal performance. Edward Sien interviews Jeffrey Thomas, looking back.

What do you know now that you didn’t 20 years ago?

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.”

From the Music Library Association’s website:

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.

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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.