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Howard Foundation awards 12 fellowships for 2002-2003
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University, has named 12 recipients of $20,000 fellowships for the 2002-2003 academic year in the areas of music, musicology, playwriting and theater arts.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation,
administered by Brown University for the Board of Administration of the Howard
Foundation, has awarded 12 fellowships of $20,000 each for the 2002-2003
academic year.
The recipients, representing the fields of music composition and performance,
musicology, playwriting and theater arts, were selected from 94 scholars
nominated by administrative officers of colleges, universities and cultural
institutions throughout the country.
The 2002-2003 fellows and their projects are:
- Azande – playwriting, independent: a play titled Muro
Tita (The Grave of My Grandmother);
- Jessica Chalmers – playwriting, assistant professor, University
of Notre Dame: a play titled Avanti, about the demise of the Studebaker
automotive corporation and its effects on South Bend, Ind.;
- Daniel Jones – theater arts, independent: Phoenix
Fabrik, a play;
- Mary Ellen Junda – performance, associate professor, University
of Connecticut: Singing with Treblemakers: A Recording for Children Sung by
Children;
- Gretchen Horlacher – musicology, associate professor, Indiana
University: a book project, titled Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity
in Stravinsky’s Music;
- Scott Lindroth – composition, associate professor, Duke
University: Nasuh, a large-scale work for soprano, string quartet, and
electronic sound;
- Phil Markowitz – composition, New School Jazz and Contemporary
Music Program: Abstract Expression – Musical Portraits of American
Masters, a multi-media suite for piano trio and chamber orchestra;
- Roberta Marvin – musicology, associate professor, University of
Iowa: a book, titled Verdi and the Victorians;
- Georgine Resick – performance, associate professor, University
of Notre Dame, The Song Cycle in Recording: A Historical
Perspective;
- Mary Ann Smart – musicology, associate professor, University of
California–Berkeley: Risorgimento Fantasies: Italian Opera as Romantic
Discourse;
- Martin Stokes – ethnomusicology, associate professor,
University of Chicago: Music and the Globalization of Sentiment;
- Stephen Taylor – composition, assistant professor, University
of Illinois: chamber music and a virtual opera.
The Howard Foundation Board of Administration announced that fellowships in
2003-2004 academic year will be awarded in the fields of history, history of
science and political science. For further information, call (401) 863-2640,
e-mail
Howard_Foundation@brown.edu, or
visit the Foundation’s web site at:
www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/howard.
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