Faculty News: February 2014

Thomas Brothers' new book, Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism, is garnering enthusiastic reviews from critics and scholars alike.  A Washington Post review calls Master of Modernism "painstakingly researched, profoundly evocative and altogether admirable...".  A review also appeared recently in the Wall Street Journal.  
[READ/LISTEN TO Dr. Brothers' interview on NPR's "Dinner Party Download"]

[LISTEN to Dr. Brothers on WUNC's "The State of Things."]


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Bryan Gilliam, Frances Fox Hill Professor of Humanities, has three important publications to be released this spring in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Richard Strauss. In March, C.H. Beck Verlag will release a special German Jubilee Edition of his Strauss biography, Richard Strauss: Magier der Töne. His book on Strauss's 15 operas, Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera (CUP), will appear in April. Dr. Gilliam also contributed a chapter on the major Hofmannsthal operas to A Richard Strauss Handuch, ed Walter Werbeck (Metzler Verlag), also be be released in April.

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Stephen Jaffe’s HIP Concerto (Chamber Concerto No. 3), was premiered on February 2 as part of the Triangle HIP (Historically Informed Performance) Festival.
    

Photos below are from the open rehearsal for the HIP Concerto in Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building. (Click the image to see additional photos.)