Announcements
CUNY Composers' Alliance
Website
The CCA website is now online at:
www.composersalliance.org
.
CUNY book releases
We are pleased to announce that
Music America Made, a festschrift in honor of
Prof. John Graziano, has been released by Harmonie Park Press.
Also, Ashgate Press has released a collection of essays on rock music
entitled--appropriately enough--Rock
Music, edited by Prof. Mark Spicer.
CUNY Prof. wins Koussevitsky
Commission
Jason Eckardt wins
Koussevitzky
Foundations commission.
Ora Frishberg Saloman (1938- 2011)
From: Olan, David
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 12:13 PM
Subject: Ora Frishberg Saloman
It is my sad duty to report that Ora Frishberg Saloman passed away last
Friday. Ora's dedication to her students at the Graduate Center and at
Baruch was remarkable and she will be greatly missed. Our condolences go
out to her family and friends.
Prof. Wilbourne wins AMS Award
At this year's annual meeting our own Emily Wilbourne was awarded the
Philip Brett Award of the LGBTQ Study Group of the American
Musicological Society. The prize, awarded for exceptional musicological
work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual
studies, was given to Emily for her article ""Amor nello specchio
(1622): Mirroring, Masturbation, and Same-Sex Love," Women and Music
13 (2009): 54-65.
Prof. Straus wins SMT Award
Congratulations to Prof. Joseph Straus for
winning the 2011 Outstanding Publication Award of the Society for Music
Theory for his essay, "Voice Leading in Set-Class Space"!
Music Theory Award: CUNY student
Drew F. Nobile won the 2011 Patricia Carpenter Award for his paper 'Form
and Voice Leading in Early Beatles Songs.'
Prof. Jonathan Pieslak wins 2011 Guggenheim fellowship
for his work on the music of indoctrination and propaganda in extremist
cultures.
CUNY Music Department places
high in rankings conducted by Academic Analytics! The
Music Department ranked fifth in the country for the scholarly
achievement of its faculty, according to the Faculty Scholarly
Productivity Index. Further, in the “broad” category of humanities,
the Graduate Center was fourth after Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
The rankings take into account scholarly publications, honors and
awards and grants.
The research was conducted by Academic Analytics and an overview of
the findings were reported in the January 12, 2007 issue of the
Chronicle of Higher Education.
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