Professor of Musicology Marian Wilson Kimber was interviewed by the Associated Press about the 150th anniversary of the birthday of composer Amy Beach, and her comments appeared in an article in the Washington Post.

With assistance from the University of Iowa School of Music and International Programs, Matthew Arndt presented a paper on modernism and organicism in Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata, op. 1, at the Music Theory Midwest Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference in Iowa City and at the Ninth European Music Analysis Conference in Strasbourg, France.

Professor Christine Getz was awarded a 2017 Venetian Programs Grant from the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to support research in Venice and Padova for the project, “Venetian Investors, Spanish Clients, and the Milanese Music Prints of Lomazzo and Tini.” 

Supported by the World Music Initiative, the UI School of Music joins the UI South Asian Studies Program (SASP) in presenting an evening of Kabir songs by the award-winning Prahlad Singh Tipanya group. This event is free and open to the public and will be held on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Voxman Music Building.

Nathan Platte’s essay,”‘The Epic and Intimately Human’: Contemplating the Tara Theme in Gone With the Wind,” was just published in Music in Epic Film: Listening to Spectacle (Routledge, 2016). 

As fall classes get underway, we take a moment to share some of the activities our students and faculty pursued over the summer: Marian Wilson Kimber, Trevor Harvey, Kelsey McGinnis, Cody Norling, Nathan Platte, Christine Getz.

Professor Christine Getz has received a 2016 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society.

Two doctoral students in musicology have recently been awarded fellowships. Jessica Kizzire will receive the University of Iowa’s Ballard Seashore Fellowship, which provides “protected and supported time” for doctoral candidates to focus on their research and the writing of their dissertations. Michele Aichele has been awarded an American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowship.

Prof. Jennifer Iverson, who has been spending 2015-2016 as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, has been interviewed about her research. 

University of Iowa students and faculty traveled to Drake University in Des Moines to present papers at the second Iowa Musicology Day on Saturday, March 26. Professor Marian Wilson Kimber chaired the program committee for the event.