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Upcoming Events

Balkanalia Valentine's Day Bake Sale

On Friday, February 12 "Balkanalia," the University of Illinois Balkan Music ensemble, will host a fundraising bake sale in the south Lobby of the Music Building from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. All proceeds will be used for purchasing new equipment, repair and maintenance of instruments, and to allay expenses related to visiting guest artists and the group's upcoming March concerts in Iowa.

Professional Development Colloquia

(All to be held in Music Bldg., Room 1201, at 4 p.m. on their respective dates)

Friday, March 5: Abstracts and Conference Presentations
Friday, April 2: CVs, Job Applications, and Interviews
Monday, May 3: Publishing

Upcoming Lectures

Feb. 15 -- Jeff Roberts (Lecture and Demonstration): "Ancient Impression, Modern Resonance: Chinese Guqin Improvisation and Some Creative Work of the Last Three Years in China" (3:15 p.m., Smith Memorial Room) | Flier (PDF) | Short Bio (PDF)

Feb. 17 -- Philip and Christine Bolhman (University of Chicago): Lecture and concert featuring Viktor Ullmann's melodrama, Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (The Chronicle of Love and Death of the Flagbearer Christoph Rilke), composed in 1944 while he was incarcerated at the concentration camp of Theresienstadt/Terezin. (7:30 p.m., Music Building, Room 2100) | Flier (PDF)

Feb. 18 -- Daniel Party (St. Mary's College, Indiana): "Popular Music and Dictatorships in Chile and Spain" (12:00 p.m., International Studies Building, Room 101)

Feb. 19 -- Philip Yampolsky, director of the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music: "400 Years of Kroncong, an Indonesian Popular Music" (4:00 p.m., Music Building, Room 1201)

Feb. 26 -- Gabriel Solis: "'Don't Put That Thing on Me': Early Blues Reconsidered" (4:00 p.m., Music Building, Room 1201)

Mar. 9 -- Mark Katz (University of North Carolina): "Mix and Scratch: The Turntable Becomes a Musical Instrument, 1975–1978" (4:00 p.m., Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 Gregory St.)

(Please see the Events Calendar for more details)

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Illinois Musicology Division News

PhD candidate Aaron Ziegel's article, "One Person, One Music: A Reassessment of the Duke-Dukelsky Musical Style," will appear in the Fall 2010 issue of the journal American Music (Vol. 28, No. 3).

Christina Bashford's article, "Historiography and Invisible Musics: Domestic Chamber Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain," is due to be published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society this summer (Vol. 63, No. 2). As part of a related project, she will also hold a six-week Visiting Research Fellowship this semester at the Institute of Musical Research of the University of London.

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