Autumn 2006

NEWSLETTER Vol. 2, No. 2

 

Member News

Allan Atlas has two articles forthcoming: “Ladies in the Wheatstone Ledgers: The Gendered Concertina in Victorian England, 1835-1870,” Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 39 (2006): 1-234; and “The Victorian Concertina: Some Issues Relating to Performance Practice,” Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 3 (2006): 33-61.

Ilias Chrissochoidis is the recipient of a Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. His essay “A Handel relative in Britain? (also, cutting through the 1759 fence in Handel studies)” is forthcoming in The Musical Times (Winter 2006).

Phyllis Weliver has published a new book titled The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation, (Palgrave Macmillian, 2006).

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Upcoming Events

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents “English Musical Renaissance, 1900-1930,” including works by Bax, Bliss, Bridge, Clarke, Dale, Delius, Elgar, Goossens, Ireland, Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Walton, and Warlock, February 11-25, 2007. Times vary; all concerts are held at Alice Tully Hall. For further details, visit http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents “Elgar and his World,” August 10-12 and 17-19, 2007. Artistic Directors are Leon Botstein, Christopher H. Gibbs, and Robert Martin; Byron Adams is the 2007 Scholar in Residence. See the Fisher Center website for additional information: http://fishercenter.bard.edu/

The University of Nevada, Reno is hosting a British Festival this semester. The Festival will include a series of events involving fiction authors, historians, poets, and, of interest to musicians, two concerts. The first concert, on October 19, will be a program of late 19th-20th century British chamber music. Works by Balfe, Tristram Cary, Finzi, Britten, Alwyn, Hurlestone, R. Rodney Bennett, and Somervell will be performed. The second concert will be performed on November 21st by Reno Early Music, and will be a program of Welsh, English and Scottish music including works by Farnby, Power, Johnson, Arne and Ramsey. http://www.unr.edu/content/