In Dec., Dr. K. Dawn Grapes, associate professor of music history, was awarded the Claude V. Palisca Fellowship in Musicology by the 2020 Renaissance Society of America fellowships committee; the honor included a research stipend. The fellowship is specified for Dr. Grapes’ biography project “Patrons and Biography: John Dowland,” and funds will be used to […]
Dr. John Pippen will present his research at the 2019 Society of Ethnomusicology conference; the 64th annual conference is being held at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana on Nov. 7-10. According to ethnomusicology.org, “ethnomusicology is the study of music in its social and cultural contexts. Ethnomusicologists examine music as a social process in order to […]
The University Center for the Arts is alive with the sound of music, most of which was created with technology. From music and technology courses to music composition degrees to significant hardware and software technological upgrades, CSU students and UCA patrons are benefitting from the continued investment in music technology by the School of Music, […]
For CSU Musicology Professor Dr. Angela Christian, years of study and passion have come to fruition as an over century-and-a-half old art thriller has been solved. This week, her research culminates in London as Fanny Hensel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, is publicly credited during International Women’s Day for composing the Easter Sonata.
Wes Kenney, director of orchestras at CSU, had a rewarding start to 2017! It was announced by the Fort Collins Symphony Association’s board president Rhett B. Strom that Maestro Kenney signed a five-year contract extension as music director of the 67-year-old organization. Now in his fourteenth year with the symphony, the award-winning conductor will continue […]
What’s it like to be a professional clarinetist and clarinet professor at Colorado State University? Recently, Assistant Professor of Clarinet Wesley Ferreira wore a GoPro for an entire day, so now you can find out! From arriving at work and morning practice, rehearsing for the Faculty Chamber Ensemble concert, Graduate Clarinet Quartet coaching and other […]
A review of Music History Professor Angela Mace Christian’s work recently appeared in Music and Letters, a top journal in musical scholarship. The reviewer, Marcia Citron, is widely regarded as a foundational scholar in Fanny Hensel studies and, more broadly, women in music. The following is an excerpt from the journal regarding the *contribution by […]
Last fall, Assistant Professor of Music History K. Dawn Grapes had her annotated bibliography/research guide to “John Dowland” recently published online by Oxford University Press in Oxford Bibliographies. In her introduction, Dr. Grapes describes Dowland (b. 1563–d. 1623) as an internationally known English musician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. As the most […]
Last fall, Music Education Professor Dr. Bonnie Jacobi, had her research published The Journal of Historical Research in Music Education. Her article titled “In Burst of Fresh Song” – William Churchill Hammond and His Christmas Caroling Choir at Mount Holyoke College explains how he not only helped to reinstate the musical celebration of Christmas after […]
Dr. Angela Mace Christian, assistant professor of Music History, published her work on Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in the book of collected essays, Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied. The book was edited by Aisling Kenney and Susan Wollenberg for Ashgate Press, and appeared Oct. 2015. Dr. Christian’s chapter is titled “‘Der Jüngling […]
