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Dr. Martha Sprigge to present at Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's Launching New Research in the Humanities event

Martha SpriggeUCSB Music faculty member Dr. Martha Sprigge (Assistant Professor, Musicology) was named a 2018-2019 UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Faculty Fellow, making her one of only four UCSB faculty members selected for the fellowship. On Tuesday, May 21st from 4-6 pm in the McCune Conference Room (6020) of the Humanities and Social Sciences Building, the 2018-2019 IHC Faculty Fellows will discuss their works-in-progress that have been supported by the award. Dr. Sprigge will give a presentation on her current book project, Socialist Laments: Musical Mourning in the German Democratic Republic. The book demonstrates how music was used to enact the mourning process in the former German Democratic Republic (the GDR, or East Germany), where the ruling Socialist Unity Party tightly regulated expressions of loss. Dr. Sprigge examines performances of grief that took place within the framework of East German commemorative events to assert a place for music in the mourning process, and a place for mourning in the memorial culture of the former GDR. Read more...

 
UC Santa Barbara to host "Pedagogy into Practice: Teaching Music Theory in the 21st Century" conference
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From May 23-25, the UC Santa Barbara Department of Music will host the conference "Pedagogy into Practice: Teaching Music Theory in the 21st Century." Scholars from institutions in Canada, China, Mexico, Norway, and across the United States will gather to discuss teaching methods and materials as well as ways to modernize and diversify the music theory curriculum. The conference is held in partnership with the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Theory Pedagogy and has been supported by UCSB's College of Letters and Science and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts. Read more...
Dr. Ruth Hellier-Tinoco releases new book, "Performing Palimpsest Bodies: Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico"
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Professor Ruth Hellier-Tinoco's latest book, Performing Palimpsest Bodies: Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico, will be published in May 2019 by Intellect and the University of Chicago Press. Dr. Hellier-Tinoco's book proposes the innovative concept of palimpsest bodies to interpret provocative theatre and performance experiments, exploring issues of cultural memory, history, transgression, and community transformation. Combined with ideas of postmemory and rememory, palimpsest bodies are inherently trans-temporal as they perform re-visions of embodied gestures, vocalized calls, and sensory experiences. Read more...
 
 
UC Santa Barbara Chinese-American Horn Quartet Beijing Residency
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The Chinese-American Horn Quartet, comprised of students of UCSB Department of Music Professor Steven Gross, will be in residence in China’s capital city, Beijing, from March 23-29, 2019. The quartet’s itinerary will include concerts, clinics, and masterclasses at the Beijing Central Conservatory, one of the world’s leading music schools; the RDFD School, an elite high school affiliated with Renmin University; and prominent horn maker Briz Musical Instruments. Read more...
UCSB to host Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawai'i Chapter, SEMSCHC Annual Conference
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UC Santa Barbara will host the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California and Hawai'i Chapter, SEMSCHC Annual Conference on Saturday, March 2nd and Sunday, March 3rd on the UCSB campus. The conference will be co-chaired by UCSB Department of Music faculty members Dr. Ruth Hellier-Tinoco and Dr. Tim Cooley, with nine UCSB graduate students involved in the Local Arrangements Committee, including Stephanie Choi, Gen Conte, Max Jack, Alexander Karvelas, Kate Morics, Daniel Oshiro, Steven B. Thomson, Lauren Vanderlinden, and Kira Weis. Read more...
UCSB Composition alumnus Lansing McLoskey’s "Zealot Canticles" receives 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
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A recording of UCSB Composition alumnus Lansing McLoskey’s oratorio, Zealot Canticles: An oratorio for tolerance, has been awarded a 2018 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Based on works by Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the 80-minute oratorio for choir, soloists, clarinet, and string quartet was a Barlow Commission for The Crossing, a professional chamber choir dedicated to new music and conducted by Donald Nally. The CD was released in the fall of 2018 on Innova Records. Read more...
Graduate student Julie Davies to perform Verdi's Requiem with Southwest Florida Symphony
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On Saturday, March 2nd, UCSB graduate student Julie Davies (soprano) will perform Verdi’s Requiem with the Southwest Florida Symphony under the baton of Maestro Nir Kabaretti, Music and Artistic Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony. Read more...
UCSB Music faculty members Benjamin Brecher and Jon Nathan to perform in Opera Santa Barbara's production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
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UCSB Department of Music faculty members Benjamin Brecher (tenor) and Jon Nathan will perform in Opera Santa Barbara’s sold out production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin on Friday, March 1st at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 3rd at 2:30 pm at the Lobero Theatre. Professor Brecher will perform the role of Monsieur Triquet and Dr. Nathan will serve as principal percussionist. Read more...