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SMR End-of-Year BBQ
May 05, 2018
Last weekend, SMR members celebrated a productive and successful year with a barbecue at Alyssa’s well-appointed home. The weather held out nicely, and members enjoyed a variety of culinary offerings, yard games, domesticated animals, and conversation. Congratulations, everyone, on a...
SMR End-of-2018 General Assembly
April 23, 2018
Last week, SMR members met for the organization’s year-end General Assembly. The meeting was well-attended, and members discussed a variety of topics, both reviewing the many undertakings of the year that passed (including our successful graduate-student conference in March!) and making...
Musical Instrument Museum Trip
March 24, 2018 – Conner Singh VanderBeek
On the opening weekend of spring break, Alyssa, Ho-Chak, Casper, and I had the great fortune of visiting the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, as arranged by Professor Lester Monts and the Stearns Collection.
2018 SMR Conference: Music and Borders
March 17, 2018
Last weekend, SMR held its much-anticipated 2018 graduate-student conference. Students from around the country gave ten paper presentations (including one lecture-recital) on a variety of topics relating to the conference’s theme, “Music and Borders,” across the disciplines of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music...
Alyssa Wells on Brass Chicks Blog
March 16, 2018
Alyssa Wells was recently featured on the Brass Chicks blog—on International Women’s Day, no less—in a piece she wrote about her path to her current research. You can read all about it here.
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