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SMR Kick-Off Barbeque
September 19, 2017
On Saturday, September 9, SMR members (and a handful of significant others) convened for a year-commencing barbecue. The barbecue was hosted in Anne’s (Ph.D candidate, historical musicology) verdant backyard. The weather was beautiful and the food delicious—a great way to...
Welcome message from the Co-chairs
September 15, 2017 – Lena Leson and Vivian Luong
Hello, all!
Re-approaching a Hollywood Film Musical through 1950s Hong Kong Newspaper Advertisements
September 11, 2017 – Ho-chak Law
In early June this summer, I visited the Special Collections of the Hong Kong University Main Library, conducting archival research on the reception of particular Hollywood musical films and their Cantonese remakes through studying Hong Kong newspaper advertisements (in Chinese...
Bringing Old Music to Life: Recording Christopher Tye’s The Actes of the Apostles
September 02, 2017 – Anne Heminger
This summer, I had the opportunity (thanks to a bit of extra research funding) to have the music of sixteenth-century English composer Christopher Tye’s The Actes of the Apostles professionally recorded. This publication is one of the central musical sources...
Summer in Prague
August 26, 2017 – Kája Lill
This summer I was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies to take an intensive two-month Czech language course at Charles University in Prague. The course was extremely...
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