Ithaca College

Mark A. Radice, Professor in the Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition, and Mary I. Arlin, Professor Emerita, co-edited Polycultural Synthesis in the Music of Chou Wen-chung, a collection of essays that has been released by Routledge. 

Chou’s importance rests not only in his numerous compositions, but also in his widespread influence through his extensive teaching career at Columbia University, where his many students included, among others, Bright Sheng, Zhou Long, Tan Dun, Chinary Ung, and Chen Yi. During his tenure at Columbia, Chou also founded the U.S.-China Arts Exchange.

The Ithaca College faculty who provided essays are:

• Mark A. Radice, “Chou Wen-chung: A Biographical Essay”
• Mary I. Arlin, “The Cultural Origins of the Compositional Structures in Windswept Peaks for Violin, ‘Cello, Clarinet, and Piano”
• Kristina L. Shanton, Music Librarian, “Chou Wen-chung: Works List and Bibliography”

The other authors are:

• Chen Yi (Distinguished Professor of Music Composition, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
• Frederick Lau (Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
• Eric Lai (Professor of Music Theory, Baylor University)
• Kenneth Kwan (Xinghai Conservatory of Music; Guangzhou, China)
• Donald Palma (Professor of Music, New England Conservatory of Music)
• Richard Pittman (Founder and Director of the Prestigious Boston Musica Viva)
• Shyhji Pan-Chew (Professor of Music Composition at Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan)
• Mark Steinberg (First Violinist of the Brentano Quartet)
• Heidy Zimmerman (A Curator at the Paul Sacher Foundation; Basel, Switzerland)
• Zhou Long (Distinguished Professor of Music Composition, University of Missouri-Kansas City).