Ithaca College School of Music faculty member Mark A. Radice was awarded a Provost’s Grant in the spring semester of 2010 for continued work on inter-institutional liaison with Tianjin Conservatory of Music and Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, PRC.
During May and June, Radice presented the following series of five lectures in PRC:
“Formal Aspects of Selected Piano Sonata Movements by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
“Mean-tone Temperament, Keyboard Instruments, and Affection in the Music of J. S. Bach.”
“The Role of Catholic Mysticism in the Structural Designs of Olivier Messiaen’s Music.”
“Franz Lehar, Dmitri Shostakovich, Béla Bartók, and the ‘Maxim’s Motto’ from The Merry Widow,”
“Henry Purcell, Dramatick Operas, and the Dorset Garden Theatre: Interactions between Sounds and Spaces.”
A team of language specialists in Tianjin are currently translating all of Radice’s musicological writings into Mandarin for publication by The People’s Music Press, Beijing, PRC.
Radice, who is also the Curator of the Karel Husa Archive & Gallery for Contemporary Music, used spare time during his journey in China to put finishing touches on his article concerning “Karel Husa’s Organ Works: The Concerto and ‘Frammenti,’” which appeared in the July 2010 issue of The American Organist.
Another highlight of the trip was notification from the Acquisitions Editor of the University of Michigan Press that the press has accepted his Concise History of Chamber Music for publication.
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