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News
At the close of the first semester of the current academic session, it is a pleasure to record the following updates of news from the School.
Appointments
We are very pleased to announce that Dr Jaime Jones, Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, has been awarded tenure.
Performance
Two very successful concerts were given during the Semester by the UCD Symphony Orchestra (Astra Hall, 16 November) and the UCD Philharmonic Choir (St Bartholomew’s Church, Clyde Road). The UCD Choral Scholars will present ‘A Choral Celebration of Christmas’ at University Church, St Stephen’s Green on 20 and 21 December. For further details of these events, please consult: http://www.ucdchoralscholars.ie.
On 4 November, the Choral Scholars and Orchestral Scholars participated at a celebration to mark the launch of the UCD Ad Astra Scholars (artistic director, Desmond Earley) which took place during the UCD Foundation Day Dinner. On the same occasion, Irish composer Bill Whelan was awarded the Foundation Day Medal. A documentary on the UCD Symphony Orchestra, created and directed by graduates of the School Ruth O’Mahony Brady and Thomas Ivory, is now available on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqj4xTA27hI.
UCD Philharmonic Choir
UCD Symphony Orchestra
UCD Choral Scholars
Research
The seventh issue of The Musicology Review, edited by Liam Cagney and Shane McMahon, was launched on 11 November in the Royal Irish Academy of Music by Dr Gareth Cox. The international scope of the volume is attested by the fact that seven of the nine articles it contains are by contributors from Clare College, Cambridge, the City University of London, the Chinese University of Hong Kong [two articles], California State University, Long Beach, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the University of Technology, Cape Town (South Africa). The UCD Musicology Prize this year was jointly shared by Stephen Graham (Goldsmiths) and Matthew D. Blackmar (California State).
Our congratulations to the editors, editorial board, reviewers and contributors in the achievement of such a remarkable issue. For further details please go to: www.themusicologyreview.com
UCD Press has announced that it will publish the Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland in 2012. Final preparations for the submission of the manuscript will be complete before the Christmas break.
News of Staff
Professor Julian Horton was much involved with the international Schubert Conference organized by an inter-institutional committee chaired by Dr Lorraine Byrne Bodley and held in association with the School in NUI Maynooth between 21 and 23 October: Professor Horton delivered a joint lecture with his brother, the pianist Tim Horton, on ‘Schubert’s Piano Sonata D.959 and the Performance of Analysis’ at the conference, preceded by a longer version of the same material at a memorable seminar in musicology in UCD chaired by Dr Frank Lawrence on 19 October. At Maynooth he also introduced and chaired the keynote address given by Professor Robert Hatten. Professor Horton also gave a guest seminar at the University of Liverpool on ‘Two-dimensional Sonata From in the Post-classical Piano Concerto’ in October and attended the Society for Music Theory annual conference in Minneapolis, where he delivered a paper on ‘Form and Syntax in the Post-Classical Piano Concerto’.
In November, Dr Wolfgang Marx’s György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds (edited with Louise Duchesneau) was published by Boydell Press, Woodbridge (Surrey). The volume includes two chapters from members of the School: ‘”Make Room for the Grand Macabre!” The Concept of Death in György Ligeti’s Oeuvre’ by Dr Marx (pp. 71-84) and ‘The Bigger Picture: Ligeti’s Music and the Films of Stanley Kubrick’ by Dr Ciaran Crilly (pp.245-54). Dr Marx also recently published “Freund Heins Nachfolger! Viktor Ullmanns Oper Der Kaiser von Atlantis” in L’Art Macabre 12 (2011), pp.71-85 and a review of Hartmut Hein and Fabian Kolb (editors), Musik und Humor in Die Tonkunst 5/4 (2011), 559-60. In November 2011 Dr Marx began a three-year term as external examiner (MMUS) at the University of Liverpool.
Professor Thérèse Smith recently published “Lyrical Protest: Music in the History of African American Culture” in R. Hörmann and G. Mackenthun (editors), Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and its Discourses. (New York, Berlin: Waxmann Verlag, 2010), pp.257-274. Several of her articles have also been published in Fintan Vallely (editor), The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, 2nd Edition (Cork: Cork University Press, 2011). She continues as an international research consultant to the AHRC-ESRC (UK) religion and society research project entitled “The Experience of Worship”.
Dr Jaime Jones delivered a guest seminar in the Department of Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast on “Singing through Time and Space: Music and Pilgrimage in Maharashtra” in October. In the same month she gave a research seminar entitled “Between Timelessness and History: Music and Devotion in South Asia” for the Department of Music at University College Cork and in early November she was a delegate at the Society for Ethnomusicology annual conference in Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr Una Hunt recently published the following articles: “George Alexander Osborne and Wieniawski’s Irish Connections” in Henryk Wieniawski and the Bravura Tradition (Poznan, Poland: The Henryk Wieniawski Musical Society, Sept 2011), pp. 266-73; “The National Archive of Irish Composers: Creating a Digital Collection of Music from the National Library of Ireland” in Fontes Artis Musicae, 58/3 (Middleton, US: IAML, July-Sept 2011), pp. 266-73; “The Harpers’ Legacy: National Airs and Pianoforte Music” in Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, 6 (2010-11), pp. 3-53.
Two of Mr Desmond Earley’s orchestrations and arrangements were broadcast on RTE Radio 1 in October. In November, as continuo player with the Irish Baroque Orchestra directed by Monica Huggett, he took part in the Ardee Festival. He is currently touring with the Irish Baroque Orchestra in the same capacity in performances of Messiah and works by Telemann, Stradella, Corelli and others.
Professor Harry White was awarded the Associazione Amistade “Premio Istranza” at the Archaeological Museum in Olbia, Sardinia in November for his work on Thomas Moore. His guest lectures since September include ‘Death and the Maiden: Woody Allen and the Late Schubert’, International Schubert Conference, NUI Maynooth (October); ‘The Invention of Irish Music: Remembering Grattan Flood’, International Symposium on Franjo Kuhac and Musical Historiography in Europe, University of Zagreb (October); ‘The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland: an Introduction’, University of Leeds (November); ‘The Imagined Unities of Thomas Moore, Olbia (as above). Also in November, he published Musical Theatre as High Culture? , co-edited with Vjera Katalinic and Stanislav Tuksar (Zagreb, Croatian Musicological Society, 2011).
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NEWS REPORT FROM SEPTEMBER 2011
News
As a new academic year begins, the UCD School of Music greets our returning students and warmly welcomes our incoming first year class of BA and BMUS students. We also welcome the new MMUS class and newly registered and continuing doctoral students in musicology and ethnomusicology.
As part of the School’s newly designed website, this News page will feature information on the performance and research activities of members of the School and will be periodically updated.
Appointments
Professor Julian Horton has recently been appointed as Head of School for a period of three years in succession to Professor Thérèse Smith, who held this post from September 2008 until August 2011. Other recent appointments include Ms Eve O’Kelly, who was nominated as adjunct associate professor in June. She joins Dr Una Hunt, nominated as adjunct professor in 2010. Dr Nicole Grimes has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to be held jointly in UCD and the University of California, Irvine. Dr Grimes will work with Professor Horton as principal investigator on a project entitled ‘Brahms and the Fabric of Modernist Culture’. Dr Maria McHale, formerly a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCD, returns to the School this year to take up a part-time lectureship. Finally, we are also pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Orla Flanagan as director of the UCD Philharmonic Choir.
Research
The seventh volume of School’s peer-reviewed journal, The Musicology Review, edited by Shane McMahon and Liam Cagney, will be launched in Newman House, St Stephen’s Green, on Friday 11 November 2011. Further details are available from the journal’s website, www.themusicologyreview.com.
A conference on ‘Schubert and Concepts of Late Style’, to be held at NUI Maynooth between 21 and 23 October, 2011, will take place in association with the UCD School of Music. Further details are available at www.music.nuim.ie/eventsDetails of the School’s forthcoming Seminars in Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music in Ireland and Music Analysis will be posted on the Seminars link in these pages.
This year’s Seminar in Musicology includes papers by Dr Jeremy Llewellyn (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis) on 11 October, Prof. Julian Horton (UCD) and Mr Tim Horton (Sheffield) on 19 October, Prof. Lori Kruckenberg (Oregon) on 27 October and Dr Noel O’Regan (Edinburgh) on 29 November. For further details see please click here.
The Seminar in Ethnomusicology will include papers by Prof. Thérèse Smith (UCD) on 26 September, Dr Ioannis Tsioukalis (Queen’s University of Belfast) on 10 October, Edel McDonnell (Cork School of Music) on 24 October and Dr Susan Motherway (Tralee Institute of Technology) on 14 November. For further details see please click here.
News of Staff
Dr Frank Lawrence was elected to the Advisory Board of Cantus Planus, a study group of the International Musicological Society in July (http://www.cantusplanus.org/). He was also elected to the council of the Henry Bradshaw Society at its AGM in London in May (http://www.henrybradshawsociety.org/welcome.html)
Dr Jaime Jones was elected to the council of ICTM, Ireland to serve as Membership Officer and is currently organising the 2012 conference of ICTM, Ireland which will be held in Dublin.(http://www.ictm.ie/)
Professor Julian Horton will give a guest lecture at the University of Liverpool on 11 October and will also deliver a paper at the conference of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis in late October. He is also co-organiser of Schubert and Concepts of Late Style, to be held at NUI Maynooth between 20–22 October, at which he will also deliver a paper.
Professor Harry White was recently appointed to the international advisory boards of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. He will deliver a plenary address at a symposium on European musical historiography at the University of Zagreb in October and will deliver a keynote lecture at the Irish Arts Festival at the University of Leeds in November. In December, Professor White will travel to Montreal for the final meeting of the Ireland-Quebec research project hosted in Ireland by An Foras Feasa.
News of Former Students
Congratulations to Dr John Cunningham, recently appointed to a lectureship in Music at the University of Bangor, to Dr Anne Hyland, appointed to a lectureship in Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology and to Dr Úna-Frances Clarke, appointed to an editorial post at the BBC London Promenade Concerts.
Items of news for this webpage should be emailed to Professor Harry White (harry.white@ucd.ie). Future editions of this page will include news of publications by staff and students of the School.