Archive - October 2015

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2015 Paul R. Judy Center Grant Awards
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Spinning Plates, Entrepreneurship, and the Social Relationships of Ensemble Residencies
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Orchestral Getty Grants: The Community Work of Four Orchestras

2015 Paul R. Judy Center Grant Awards

Oct 14 2015
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Alternative Ensembles, Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research

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The Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research at the Eastman School of Music recently held its second annual call for grant proposals for projects relating to the concept of innovative ensembles. This year, fifty-eight proposals from individuals and groups were submitted for consideration. Below is a list of projects that have been awarded funds[…]

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Spinning Plates, Entrepreneurship, and the Social Relationships of Ensemble Residencies

Oct 07 2015
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John Pippen
John Pippen

John Pippen teaches courses in ethnomusicology, jazz, and music and culture at the College of Wooster. His primary research has been an extended ethnographic study of the new music ensemble eighth blackbird (lower case intentional). Blending approaches from labor studies and aesthetic theory, Pippen writes about struggle in the classical music scene in the United States. His dissertation combined ethnographic research with historical studies of virtuosity in a detailed examination of eighth blackbird (lowercase intentional). You can read a summary of his dissertation at New Music Box.

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Alternative Ensembles, Classical Music, Entrepreneurship, Income Streams, Money, Musicans as Brands, Musicians Today, Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research

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Over the last few decades, many American schools of music have embraced the repertoire and missions of new music ensembles. Boundaries are broken, venues explored, students challenged, and new sounds ring out. What a change from the 1980s, when musicologist Susan McClary argued that “both popular and postmodern musics are marked as the enemy, and[…]

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Orchestral Getty Grants: The Community Work of Four Orchestras

Oct 05 2015
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Ann Drinan
Ann Drinan

Ann Drinan, Senior Editor, has been a member of the Hartford Symphony viola section for over 30 years. She is a former Chair of the Orchestra Committee, former member of the HSO Board, and has served on many HSO committees. She is also the Executive Director of CONCORA (CT Choral Artists), a professional chorus based in Hartford and New Britain, founded by Artistic Director Richard Coffey. Ann was a member of the Advisory Board of the Symphony Orchestra Institute (SOI), and was the HSO ROPA delegate for 14 years, serving as both Vice President and President of ROPA. In addition to playing the viola and running CONCORA, Ann is a professional writer and editor, and has worked as a consultant and technical writer for software companies in a wide variety of industries for over 3 decades. (She worked for the Yale Computer Science Department in the late 70s, and thus has been on the Internet, then called the DARPAnet, since 1977!) She is married to Algis Kaupas, a sound recordist, and lives a block from Long Island Sound in Branford CT. Together they create websites for musicians: shortbeachwebdesign.com.

Ann holds a BA in Music from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an MA in International Relations from Yale University.

Read Ann Drinan's blog here. web.esm.rochester.edu/poly/author/ann-drinan

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Community Engagement, Editor's Choice, El Sistema Programs, Health & Wellness

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The summer issue of Symphony magazine had an article by Michael Stugrin about the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation’s Education and Community Envestment grants, awarded to 22 orchestras in 2014-15. The grants rage from $13,000 to $27,500, and are granted to orchestras of all budget sizes. Mr. Sturgin’s article focuses on four recipients: The Central[…]

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