In this issue of Quarter Notes, a beloved professor answers 20 questions on the occasion of his UW retirement; the School of Music hosts a dynamic community artist-in-residence; faculty celebrate new publications and recordings; UW Music observes the 100th birthday of emeritus professor Gerald Kechley, and students, faculty, and alumni share some of their latest career and artistic achievements.
The UW’s beloved Music History professor Larry Starr retired in June 2018 after 41 years on the School of Music faculty. He returned to the Music Building during fall quarter to teach seminars on Igor Stravinsky and Stephen Sondheim. Professor Starr's answers to our 20 questions have been condensed slightly for length, but not for clarity. The clarity is all his own.
An antidote for the winter blahs is close at hand, with multiple opportunities this quarter for the UW and greater Seattle community to experience the exhilarating Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance form known as bomba.
Amarilys Ríos, the School of Music’s Community Artist-in-Residence for winter quarter, plans a robust schedule of appearances, workshops, and performances both on and off campus during her residency with the UW Ethnomusicology Program during Winter Quarter 2019.
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Awards, honors, appointments, residencies and new creative projects are among recent news reported by School of Music faculty in Winter 2019.
Recent recordings and publications by UW Music faculty represents an array of research interests and creative endeavors.
School of Music students and alumni report recent academic appointments, publications, promotions, and other achievements in their work at the University of Washington and around the world.
University of Washington Jazz Studies alumni Stuart MacDonald and Levi Gillis--both saxophonists--recently received some welcome and significant financial support for their creative endeavors with grant awards from the Raynier Foundation (MacDonald) and Seattle's Artist's Trust (Gillis).
School of Music Professor Patricia Campbell has joined the board of the Association for Cultural Equity (ACE), accepting an invitation extended by Anna Lomax Wood, anthropologist and daughter of musicologist Alan Lomax.
“ACE is the archive (recordings and films) of Alan Lomax, John Lomax (father), and Bess Lomax Hawes (sister) that encompasses historic recordings from about 1915 to the late 1990s, a goldmine of recordings that are highly valued by musicologists, ethnomusicologists, folklorists…
Twelve authors, all of them affiliated with the UW School of Music, are featured in the six-volume Routledge World Music Pedagogy Series, set for publication in 2018 and 2019 and encompassing principal cross-disciplinary issues in music, education, and culture. A seventh volume on teaching world music in higher education is in development.
The series, edited by School of Music Professor Patricia Campbell, details theoretical and practical aspects of World Music Pedagogy in ways that seek…
The North Central Educational Service District has named School of Music alumnus Matthew Brown (’05 BA/BM Music Education) its Regional Teacher of the Year for 2019.
A music teacher in the Manson School District in Manson, Washington since 2005, Brown works with 90 percent of the middle school students and more than a third of the high school students at Manson Middle and High Schools, which enroll around 300 students in grades 6 through 12.
During his time in the district, Brown has taught…
The School of Music observed the 100th birthday of Professor Emeritus Gerald Kechley Nov. 18 with a concert of his music performed by UW Music students, faculty, and members of Professor Kechley’s family. A reception in the School of Music Fishbowl followed the concert of vocal and instrumental works, choral arrangements, and excerpts from Professor Kechley’s opera The Golden Lion.
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