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 und Das Mädchen’: Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, and the Zwolf Lieder, op. 9.” In this chapter, Dr. Christian focuses on three songs that Fanny Hensel published under her brother’s name in his op. 9; the discussion centers on the gendered implications of both this situation and the title of the publication, ties the choice of songs in this opus to the biography of the Mendelssohn siblings, and considers whether or not op. 9 can be considered a song cycle.
Dr. Wesley Ferreira’s (assistant professor of Clarinet), recording “Madison Avenue” was favorably reviewed by Dileep Gangolli in the Sept. issue of The Clarinet magazine. Mr. Gangolli is the Education, Community Engagement and Development Manager of the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra and is a clarinetist with the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Here is an excerpt from the review:
While I was previously unfamiliar with the talents of Wesley Ferreira as well as the composers whose works he recorded on Madison Avenue, I was delighted to hear this CD. In addition to the very fine clarinet playing, each selection on the recording is by an unheralded composer worthy of attention and who has an affinity for writing for our instrument. Mix in talented assisting artists such as Gail Novak (piano), Copper Ferreira (clarinet and bass clarinet) and the well-balanced Colorado State University Wind Ensemble (conducted by Christopher Nicholas), and you have a solid CD that I can heartily recommend to our readers...All in all, a fine CD and a wonderful representation of the excellent work being done at Colorado State University by Ferreira and his colleagues. I look forward to hearing him live! Read the review (PDF).
