Monthly Archives: December 2012

New York’s Argento Chamber Ensemble Performs Lillios

composition, faculty news

New York’s famed Argento Chamber Ensemble will present works by BGSU composition faculty member Elainie Lillios on their upcoming “Argento Performers Series: Lunar Movements” concerts, December 15-16, 2012. Hailed by Alex Ross as “an essential source of adventurous new music”, Argento’s series celebrates the 100th anniversary of “Pierrot Lunaire”, with performances of Arnold Schoenberg’s masterpiece juxtaposed with recent and premiere compositions. The concerts will include Lillios’s alto flute and live electronics pieces “Among Fireflies” and her collaborative experimental animation “2BTextures”, created with BGSU digital artist Bonnie Mitchell. Concerts will take place at the Austrian Cultural Forum at 11 East 52nd Street, New York. For more information visit: http://www.argentomusic.org/current.html#series

 

Prof. Spohr Awarded Research Fellowship in Germany

faculty news, theory-musicology-ethnomusicology

Prof. Arne Spohr, professor of music history at BGSU, was awarded a six-month research fellowship by the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Dr. Spohr will use this fellowship for his new research project on music, ceremonial and space at European courts during the Renaissance and Baroque.

The HAB is one of the world’s foremost research libraries for early modern studies, with most impressive holdings of unique printed and manuscript sources from the Middle Ages until the 18th century. Like the Newberry Library in Chicago, the HAB is a gathering place for international scholars, including many American historians, art historians, literary historians, theologians, and musicologists. Working at this institution offers many fruitful opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange within the scholarly community. Beyond offering tremendous research opportunities, the HAB organizes seminars and colloquia on early modern topics, as well as concerts with music ranging from the Middle Ages to the present.

The Herzog August Bibliothek offers a highly competitive fellowship program for post-doctoral researchers in order to promote research in the areas of medieval and early modern cultural history. The international program is open to all historically oriented disciplines. Current fellows are both junior and senior scholars from all over the world, including the USA (from Stanford University, University of Wisconsin, Bucknell University and Carthage College), Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia and the United Kingdom.

www.hab.de

http://www.hab.de/forschung/stipendien/2012.htm

 

Profs. Sampen and Shrude guests for Kent State’s John Cage Celebration

composition, faculty news, MACCM

On December 1, 2012, Distinguished Research Professors Marilyn Shrude and John Sampen visited Kent, Ohio as special guests for Kent State University’s  “John Cage Celebration.”   Shrude and Sampen’s lecture presentation was entitled “In Celebration: John Cage and the Saxophone” and was followed immediately by a performance of Cage’s composition FOUR 5 as directed by BGSU alumni Dr. Jeff Heisler.

 

This Kent State lecture was a repeat performance of Shrude/Sampen’s presentation at the World Saxophone Congress in Scotland last summer.  Included in their talk were specific details and film footage from Cage’s residence at BGSU in 1986 as well as television interviews with Dr. Shrude and a discussion of Cage’s subsequent commission for Sampen and the BGSU saxophone class.  FOUR 5 was one of John Cage’s last compositions before he died in 1992.

 

In addition to the featured lecture, Dr. Shrude also presented a guest masterclass for the Kent State composition department.