March
21, 2003 Musicologist
Crawford to Visit MHC
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Richard
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Richard Crawford,
Hans T. David Distinguished University Professor of Music at the
University of Michigan and Five College musicologist-in-residence
March 24–28, will deliver two public lectures during his
weeklong visit to the Five Colleges. On Tuesday, March 25, Crawford
will present a talk titled “Musicology and the Jazz Voice:
A Personal Inquiry” at 8 pm in the Early Recital Hall of
Smith College’s Sage Hall. On Friday, March 28, he will
present a lecture called “A Foggy Day?: Problems in Gershwin’s
Biography” at 7 pm in the Warbeke Room of Mount Holyoke’s
Pratt Hall. Following that lecture at 8:15 pm, Mark Gionfriddo,
director of MHC’s Jazz Ensembles, and Professors of Music
Gary Steigerwalt and Melinda Spratlan will join other Five College
music faculty members in a concert of music by George Gershwin
in Pratt Hall’s McCulloch Auditorium.
Crawford will also
speak in classes on all five campuses. At Mount Holyoke, he will
join History of Western Music II on March 27. “Richard Crawford
is a prolific writer on a wide variety of subjects pertaining
to American music and musicians. For the past decade he has been
the propelling force behind and editor-in-chief of the series
of scholarly editions published as Music of the United States
of America; last December his recent book, America’s
Musical Life, A History, won an ASCAP [American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers] Deems-Taylor Award. More than
any other music historian, he has brought about a significant
change in the perception, availability, and evaluation of American
music, in all its diversity.” said Professor of Music Louise
Litterick, MHC’s representative on the Five College residency
committee.
Crawford’s musicological work includes several studies of
American music— from Native American traditions, to the
contributions of European colonizers and African slaves, to the
development of jazz and rock. His publications include America’s
Musical Life: A History and The American Musical Landscape,
a collection of lectures he delivered as Bloch Professor of Music
at the University of California at Berkeley that argue for the
recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music.
He has also published several award-winning studies of early American
sacred music. The subjects of his numerous articles include George
Gershwin, Edward MacDowell, popular song of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, and black music and jazz.
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