Joy Calico's (Ph.D. 1999) new book, Arnold Schoenberg's 'A Survivor from Warsaw' in Postwar Europe, was released this month from the University of California Press. Calico is Assoc. Prof. of Musicology at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University.
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Paul Leary (Ph.D. 2011) and pianist Thomas Rosenkranz were featured on WUNC 91.5 FM's "The State of Things" on March 6, discussing the premiere of Leary's piece, "Perfume," a tribute to the music of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.
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Talya Lieberman (Trinity, 2007) has won the Italo Tajo Memorial Award for full tuition and $15,000 stipend in the Opera Scholarship Competition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she is currently pursuing an artist diploma. She will be participating in San Francisco Opera's affiliate Merola Opera Program this summer, covering Stella in Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire and featured as Semele (Handel) in the Schwabacher Concert Series.
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Thom Limbert (Ph.D. 2010) has been appointed Assistant Professor at the Raclin School of Music, Indiana University-South Bend.
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Kelley Tatro (Ph.D. 2013) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
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Michael Trinastic's (Ph.D. 2011) paper, "Dissonant Harmony and 'Seed-Tones': Organic Coherence in the Piano Music of Dane Rudhyar," will be published in Music Theory Online in June.
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