Danielle Lussier, a Ph.D. candidate in History who will be this year’s Una’s Fellow at the Townsend Center, will be working on a dissertation entitled Bartok ‘on trial’ in Budapest and Paris, 1945-1955. The project proposes to use the reception of the music of the Hungarian composer as a lens through which to examine trends in European musical culture in the decade that marked the new “East-West” split.
Katherine Bergeron (Music) is working on connections between music and poetry in the French Third Republic.
In Keyboard Instruments and Musical Knowledge in northern Italy, c.1550-1650, Leon Chisholm (Music) examines the way in which keyboard instruments—and more precisely, the embodied music knowledge shaped by them—underpinned key developments in music theory and composition in the Renaissance.
Ken Ueno (Music) is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and cross-disciplinary artist. During the period of his Associate Professor Fellowship, Professor Ueno plans to work on an evening-long chamber opera, Daedalus Barricades/Nadar Baloons, commissioned by the Boston-based Guerilla Opera company, which will premiere during their 2013-2014 season.
In her project, “Resounding Afro Asia: Music and the Politics of Unity,” Tamara Roberts (Music) examines how Afro Asian “fusion” music reflects larger dynamics of interracial and intercultural encounter in the U.S. and is enmeshed in the cultural economy.
Ken Ueno (Music) is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and cross-disciplinary artist. During the period of his Associate Professor Fellowship, Professor Ueno plans to work on an evening-long chamber opera, Daedalus Barricades/Nadar Baloons, commissioned by the Boston-based Guerilla Opera company, which will premiere during their 2013-2014 season.
Edmund Campion is Professor of Composition and the Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies in the Department of Music. His music explores relationships between sound and space—creations that often involve the careful mixing of acoustic instruments with emerging computer technologies.
