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The Blair School of Music Patrons Society
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2009The Blair School of Music is honored to receive the annual unrestricted gifts of $1,000 or more from the individuals and companies listed below between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009.
The Chancellor’s Council ($10,000+)
BMI
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Byrd
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Genovese
Mrs. Landis Bass Gullett
The Sartain Lanier Family
Foundation Inc.
The Martin Foundation
Nissan North [...]
Ward and Wilson scholarship winners announced
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2009Wilma Ward provided scholarships for eight students at Blair during her lifetime, and David K. (Pat) Wilson, former chairman and life member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, gave tirelessly to the Blair school, often in memory of his wife, Anne Potter Wilson. These two beloved and generous friends also designated bequests to create [...]
[keep reading »]Alexander Heard, fifth chancellor of Vanderbilt, dies
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2009Alexander Heard, an adviser to three U.S. presidents who, as Vanderbilt’s fifth chancellor, guided the university smoothly through the stormy period of the 1960s and 1970s without the unrest and violence that afflicted many college campuses, died July 24 at his home after a long illness. He was 92.
“For more than 40 years, Alex Heard [...]
[keep reading »]Tutti: News About Faculty
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2009Joy Calico, associate professor of musicology, delivered a paper at the “Music in Poland since 1945” conference in Canterbury, England, in May and then conducted archival research in Vienna, Austria; Leipzig, Germany; and Prague, Czech Republic, for a month. This spring she published a book review in Journal of Interdisciplinary History and joined the international [...]
[keep reading »]Get connected with VUconnect, Vanderbilt’s new online community
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2009Vanderbilt has recently launched VUconnect, a new online community for alumni and students. Replacing Dore2Dore, VUconnect includes new and enhanced features. With VUconnect, you can share your latest news, find old friends and classmates, build networking relationships, share career advice and leads, locate a nearby alumni chapter, sign up for events—and connect with Vanderbilt, wherever [...]
[keep reading »]2009 Commencement Honors and Awards
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2009Founder’s Medalist: Kathryn Moreadith
Banner Bearer: Julie Aiken
Alma Mater Vocalist: Jena Carpenter
Student Marshals: Molly Reinker and Sam Parler
New Members of the Eta Iota chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda
Class of 2009
Sam Parler
Molly Reinker
Alina Satterfield
Class of 2010
Lindsay Cunningham
Jordan Holland
Alexandra Matloff
Arreanna Rostosky
Johna Smith
Vanderbilt University Summer Research Program participants
VU Global Summer Fellowship: Andrew Merritt
Vanderbilt University Summer Research Program: Mary Mathews
Awards
SAI [...]
Mandolin professor Butch Baldassari dies
Posted in: Articles, Spring 2009Butch Baldassari, a Blair School of Music professor who created a cottage industry around his love of mandolin music, died January 10 at a Nashville hospice. He was 56.
“Butch Baldassari was a wonderful artist, a warm and generous teacher and a great colleague and friend,” said Mark Wait, dean of the Blair School. “We were [...]
Cornelia Heard named holder of Valere Blair Potter Chair
Posted in: Articles, Spring 2009Cornelia Heard, professor of music and chair of the strings department of the Blair School of Music, has been named the holder of the newly created Valere Blair Potter Chair.
The chair is endowed through a gift to the university by the grandchildren of Valere Blair Potter.
“We are very excited to receive this endowed chair, and [...]
[keep reading »]Chancellor’s Cup awarded to Blair’s Lovensheimer
Posted in: Articles, Spring 2009Jim Lovensheimer, assistant professor of musicology, was surprised to see Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos striding into his American Popular Music class. With a video of James Brown up on the screen behind him in the Sarratt Cinema, Lovensheimer was speechless when Zeppos announced he was here to “give you the Chancellor’s Cup,” and the class [...]
[keep reading »]Blair’s first annual Precollege Piano Competition
Posted in: Articles, Spring 2009Blair’s first annual Precollege Piano Competition took place Nov. 16. Organized and led by Jama Reagan, Elizabeth Eckert and the rest of the Blair piano faculty, it included guest lecturer Melanie Lowe, a member of Blair’s musicology faculty.
Grades K & 1: Gitae Park, winner
Grades 2 & 3: Dong Zhao, winner; Christine Li and Kaitlyn Mi, honorable [...]
Tutti: News About Faculty
Posted in: Articles, Spring 2009The Blair String Quartet traveled to Highlands, N.C., in August to perform an unusual concert at the Highlands/ Cashiers Chamber Music Festival. The quartet shared the program with acoustic group Punch Brothers, featuring mandolinist Chris Thile (formerly of Nickel Creek) performing works by Beethoven and Ives. Blair violinist Chris Teal and Thile each played solo [...]
[keep reading »]The Blair School of Music Patrons Society
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008The Blair School of Music is honored to receive the annual unrestricted gifts of $1,000 or more from the individuals and companies listed below between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008.
The Chancellor’s Council ($10,000+)
BMI
House of Bryant Publications LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Byrd
Gaylord Entertainment
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Genovese
Mrs. Landis Bass Gullett
Ms. Louise Heinz
The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc.
The Martin Foundation
Nissan [...]
Liebermann horn trio given world premiere at the Blair School
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008The evening of April 14 saw the world premiere of a new work for horn trio by American composer Lowell Liebermann written expressly for Leslie Norton, assistant professor of horn.
Along with Carolyn Huebl on violin and Dean Mark Wait on piano, the piece was performed in the Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall, the first [...]
Wilma Ward, longtime supporter of the Blair School, dies
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008Wilma Tribble Ward, long a friend and generous supporter of the Blair School, died at her home in Nashville, July 23, 2008. A native of Bedford County, she had resided in Nashville since 1942 and worked as executive assistant to David K. Wilson for 49 years until her retirement in 2003. She provided scholarships for [...]
[keep reading »]Tutti: Faculty
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008In January and February, the Blakemore Trio presented concerts at the North Carolina School of the Arts Watson Hall Series, the Lenoir Rhyne College Concert Series in Hickory, N.C., the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and they closed their tour with a concert at the Blair School. The program included the American premiere of Trio, [...]
[keep reading »]Dominique Thormann Joins KeyBoard
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008Dominique Thormann, senior vice president of administration and finance for Nissan North America, Inc., has joined the Blair KeyBoard.Thormann joined Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., in Tokyo in 1999 as deputy general manager. Before coming to Nashville, he was senior vice president of administration and finance for Nissan Europe.
Prior to joining Nissan, he worked for Renault [...]
Vanderbilt Music Académie Inaugurated in France
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008A new interdisciplinary music and French residency offered jointly by the Blair School and the Vanderbilt-in-France program took flight this summer. Located in Aix-en-Provence, the new venture, called the Vanderbilt Music Académie, is centered around the weeks of the Festival d’Aix (June 25 through July 12) and included a variety of master classes with open [...]
[keep reading »]2008 Commencement Honors and Awards
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008Founder’s Medal: Robert Patrick Tiedemann
Banner Bearer: Daniel Paul Jansen
Student Marshals: Rachel Elizabeth Mondl and Stuart Chapman Hill
AWARDS Jean Keller Heard Prize for excellence in strings: Sophia Lim Arriaga (violin), Jennifer Rachel Estrin (violin), Andrew Joseph Braddock (viola), Roberto Paolo Papi (viola), Anne Louise Suda (cello)
David Rabin Prize for excellence in musical performance: Jennifer Rachel Estrin, violin
Presser Scholarship [...]
Hauser and Maiello join faculty
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008Jared Hauser joined the Blair faculty as assistant professor of oboe in August. He has performed throughout North America and Europe appearing as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. Appointed principal oboist of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in 2002, he has been a featured soloist with the OPO and has also appeared as soloist with such [...]
[keep reading »]Marianne Ploger appointed director of musicianship at Blair
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008
Marianne Ploger, newly appointed senior artist teacher of musicianship and director of the musicianship program, is a specialist in musical perception and communication, a teacher, author, composer and pianist. She most recently directed the Institute for Musical Perception through which she offered workshops and private sessions. She also has taught at the University of Michigan’s [...]
Global Music Archive now “live” on the Internet
Posted in: Articles, Fall 2008The Global Music Archive recently launched its first database, the Digital Collection of East African Recordings, consisting of over 2,000 discrete musical performances recorded by Centurio Balikoowa, a musician from Uganda. Co-curators, Holling Smith-Borne, director of the Wilson Music Library, and Gregory F. Barz, associate professor of musicology (ethnomusicology) at Blair, are pleased to provide [...]
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