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MELANIE LOWE | GREGORY BARZ | STEVE BUCKINGHAM | JOY H. CALICO | DALE COCKRELL | PETER COOPER | CYNTHIA CYRUS | JAMES FOGLESONG | ROBERT FRY | JEN GUNDERMAN | MICHAEL S. HIME | DOUGLAS LEE | JIM LOVENSHEIMER | JAMES MAIELLO | HELENA SIMONETT
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MELANIE LOWE Associate Professor of Musicology; Chair of Musicology and Ethnomusicology; Affiliated Faculty in American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies Publications include Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical Symphony (Indiana University Press, 2007) and articles and reviews in the Journal of Musicology, American Music, Popular Music and Society, Beethoven Forum, the world of music, Popular Music Scenes (Vanderbilt University Press, 2003), and The Cambridge Companion to Haydn (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Lectures and scholarly papers presented throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. Numerous awards, including the Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Vanderbilt University, 2001) and the Princeton Graduate Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award (Princeton University, 1993). Member, American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, Society for American Music, College Music Society, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, American Studies Association. Taught classes at Princeton University, 1991-95; Princeton Adult School, 1994; La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), 1996. Blair School since 1998.
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GREGORY BARZ Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology), Divinity School, Graduate Department of Religion, African American Studies. Faculty Head of House, North Hall, The Commons. Publications include Singing for Life: Music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda (Routledge), Music in East Africa (Oxford), and Performing Religion (Rodopi), Shadows in the Field New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (co-edited, Oxford), in addition to journal and encyclopedia articles and reviews. Lectures and scholarly papers presented throughout the United States, Africa, Great Britain, and Canada. Numerous grants and awards including a Fulbright Research Fellowship. Ethnomusicology editor, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, recording review editor, World of Music. Recent research on music as medical intervention regarding HIV/AIDS in Africa. Classes at Vanderbilt on African Music, Jazz, Blues, World Music. Taught classes at University of Chicago, 1990/91; Brown University, 1993. Member of faculty: University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1993/94; University of Alberta, 1996/97; Ohio State University, 1997/98. Blair School since 1998. Gregory Barz's homepage
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STEVE BUCKINGHAM Adjunct Instructor of Music History
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JOY H. CALICO Associate Professor of Musicology; Affiliated Faculty in European Studies, Film Studies, German Studies, and Jewish Studies Research focuses on opera and Cold War cultural politics. Publications include Brecht at the Opera (University of California Press, 2008); articles in Cambridge Opera Journal, Musical Quarterly, Opera Quarterly, Journal of Musicology, and numerous anthologies; reviews in Brecht Yearbook, Modern Drama, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and JAMS. Recently named a member of the Editorial Board of JAMS. Her current project on Schoenberg reception in postwar Europe is supported by an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars (2009-10, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard). She has also received funding from the American Academy in Berlin, NEH, the Howard Foundation, DAAD, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. Papers and colloquia presented in North America, Europe, and Australia. Previously on the musicology faculty at the University of Houston (1999) and at Illinois Wesleyan University (1999-2003), where she was also Coordinator of Russian and East European Studies. Blair School since 2003. [Photo: Mike Minehan, Berlin]
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DALE COCKRELL Professor of Musicology Publications include Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World (1997, Cambridge University Press; recipient of Hugh Holman Award for best book in Southern Studies); Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1842-1846 (1989, Pendragon Press; recipient of Irving Lowens Award for best book in American music); Happy Land: Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder (CD); The Arkansas Traveler: Music from Little House on the Prairie (CD); and other books, articles, scholarly editions of music, and reviews. Lectures and papers presented throughout the world. Numerous grants and awards. Founder and President of Pa's Fiddle Recordings, LLC, an educational enterprise dedicated to producing recordings of the music embedded in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Member: American Antiquarian Society (elected, 1995); American Musicological Society; College Music Society; International Association for the Study of Popular Music; Society for American Music (President, 1995-97). Member of faculty: University of Natal (South Africa), 1974-76; Indiana University, 1978; Dartmouth College, 1978/79; 1981; Middlebury College, 1979-85; College of William and Mary, 1985-96. Blair School since 1996.
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PETER COOPER Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature E-mail
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CYNTHIA CYRUS Associate Dean; Associate Professor of Musicology and Affiliated Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies Additional Studies: NEH Summer Institute Participant, "A Literature of Their Own? Women Writing (Venice, London, Paris, 1550-1700)," July 2003; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ohio State University 1990/91. Recent scholarly work has concentrated on scribes and libraries in women's convents of late medieval Germany and on musical literacy in late medieval France. Co-director of NEH-sponsored project, "Reading and Writing the Pedagogy of the Renaissance: Students, Teachers, and Materials of Musical Learning, 1520-1650." Publications include articles and reviews in musicological and historical journals and Festschriften and "De tous biens plaine": Twenty-Eight Settings of Hayne van Ghizeghem's Chanson (Madison: A-R Editions, 2000). Numerous formal papers presented at musicological and interdisciplinary conferences in Europe and the United States; frequent guest lectures on a variety of musical topics. Member of faculty: University of Rochester, 1991/92; SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992-94. Blair School since 1994. Cynthia Cyrus's homepage
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JAMES FOGLESONG Adjunct Professor of Music Business Recitals, choral concerts, television, Broadway, and recording studio work with Fred Waring, Walter Schuman, Ray Charles, and Arturo Toscanini. Producer, Columbia and RCA records for Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Norman Luboff Choir, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, Sergio Franchi, and Al Hirt, 1953-70. Artist/Repertoire Department head, Dot Records, Nashville, 1970-73. President: Dot Records, 1973/74; ABC Records, Nashville, 1974-79; Nashville division, MCA Records, 1979-84; Nashville division, Capitol Records, 1984-89. Board of Directors, Howard Hanson Memorial Institute of American Music (Eastman School of Music), 1997-99. Former chairman, Board of Directors, Country Music Association. President: Board of Directors, W. O. Smith Community Music School. Chairman: Board of Trustees, Country Music Foundation; Metro Arts Commission; Board of Directors, Nashville Symphony Association. Blair School since 1991.
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ROBERT FRY Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature |
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JEN GUNDERMAN Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature
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MICHAEL S. HIME Lecturer in Music Literature Student of conducting with Thor Johnson. Nashville Chamber Brass Society, 1972-80; Nashville Symphony Chorus, 1973-81; Nashville Jazz Machine, 1975-80. Assistant conductor, Nashville University Center Orchestra, 1973-75; assistant conductor, Nashville Symphony Chorus, 1973-81; assistant to the conductor, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, 1980-81. Director of Choral Activities, Vanderbilt University, 1976-97. Member of faculty: University School of Nashville, 1975/76; Vanderbilt University, College of Arts and Science, 1979-84. Blair School since 1985.
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DOUGLAS LEE Professor of Musicology, Emeritus Additional studies: University of Maryland. Publications include journal and encyclopedia articles, books on music of the 18th century and modern orchestral music, scholarly editions of 18th century music, and reviews. Contributing editor, The C.P.E. Bach Edition. Lectures and papers presented throughout the United States. Numerous grants, among them awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, Packard Humanities Institute (Cambridge, MA). Named to "Outstanding Educators of America," 1973. Member of faculty: Mount Union College (Ohio), 1959-61; National Music Camp, Interlochen, 1959-62; Wichita State University, 1964-86. Member, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, American Musicological Society, College Music Society. Blair School since 1986.
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JIM LOVENSHEIMER Assistant Professor in Music History and Literature Additional studies: University Of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Musical Theater Performance. Publications include encyclopedia articles, articles, chapters, and reviews in The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, The Encyclopedia of the Midwest (forthcoming), The Sondheim Review, and The Kurt Weill Newsletter. Papers include those for the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the Susan Porter Memorial Symposium on Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater on topics including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, blackface minstrelsy, gender representation in nineteenth-century American theatrical performance, and early eighteenth-century Parisian operatic parody. Music performance credits include work with Krzysztof Pendercki, Robert Shaw, and Marshall Haddock. Acting/musical theater master classes with Lehman Engel, Word Baker, and Paddy Edwards. Continuing activity in professional theater includes acting, playwriting, musical supervision/direction, and dramaturgy. Blair School since 2002.
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JAMES V. MAIELLO Senior Lecturer in Music History and Literature Research interests include plainchant, medieval and Renaissance music, and the philosophy of music education. In addition to presenting research at both musicology and interdisciplinary conferences in the U.S. and Europe, his study "On the Manufacture and Dating of the Pistoia Choirbooks" is forthcoming in Plainsong & Medieval Music. Research has been funded by a Heckman Stipend from the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library and grants from UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Medieval Studies Program, and Graduate Division. Teaching experience includes music at the middle level in the Pine Plains (NY) Central School District and at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Owens Community College in Toledo, OH. Member of the American Musicological Society, the College Music Society, the Medieval Academy of America, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity. Teaching responsibilities at Blair include both collegiate and pre-college music history courses. Blair since 2008. |
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HELENA SIMONETT Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Literature and History Current research focuses on the role of religious ceremonies and music to defy the ongoing mestizoization of the indigenous way of life in Northwestern Mexico. Publications include Banda: Mexican Musical Life across Borders (2001, Wesleyan University Press) and En Sinaloa nací: Historia de la música de banda (2004, Asociación de Gestores del Patrimonio Histórico y Cultural de Mazatlán), as well as numerous journal and encyclopedia articles, book chapters, and book/CD/DVD reviews. Presented papers and lectures throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Australia, and appeared frequently on radio throughout Mexico. Book review editor of the journal the world of music (University of Bamberg, Germany). Member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, International Council for Traditional Music, International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Latin America, Latin American Studies Association, British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Society for American Music, College Music Society. Taught at the University of Zurich, 1999. Blair School since 2000. Helena Simonett's homepage.
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