William Hudson and colleague Christopher Callahan were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for their project, “Courtly Lyric in the Medieval French Tradition. Poetry as Performance.” Christopher Callahan and William Hudson, faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University in French and Music, respectively, will direct an interdisciplinary Summer Seminar on the trouvères, medieval France’s lyric poets (1180–1300). The seminar will …
Frauenlieder: Medieval Songs of Women
LIBER will present its newest program, “Frauenlieder: Medieval Songs of Women” on November 17, 2013, as part of a 2-day event at Illinois Wesleyan University. This program will feature music and texts written by, for, and about women in the Middle Ages. The project is being funded by an Illinois Wesleyan-administered grant from the Mellon Foundation’s “Re-Centering the Humanities” Speaker-and-Performer …
Crowned with Laurel – The New CD
LIBER will celebrate with a concert and CD-release party at 7:30 pm on November 10, 2012 at Evelyn Chapel at Illinois Wesleyan University.
LIBER director William Hudson will be presenting at the International Congress of Medieval Studies
Sponsored by Early Music America, William Hudson will take part in the roundtable discussion “Medieval Singing: What do we really know?” along with Alexander Blachly, Univ. of Notre Dame/Pomerium; Susan Hellauer, Queens College, CUNY/Anonymous 4; and Janet Youngdahl, Univ. of Lethbridge. Click here for more info.
LIBER receives the 2009 Noah Greenberg Award!
LIBER accepted the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society in a Nov. 14 ceremony in Philadelphia. The annual award, consisting of $2,000 is intended as a grant-in-aid to stimulate active cooperation between scholars and performers by recognizing and fostering outstanding contributions to historical performing practices. The project will produce new editions and a commercial recording of previously unrecorded …
Review of Solsange in Gramophone Magazine
Our performance of the song cycle Solsange by American composer Lansing McLoskey has received a rave review in the annual “Awards issue” of Gramophone magazine (October ’08). We recorded this piece a few years ago, and it was recently released on Lansing’s debut album sixthspecies on Albany Records. Solsange (“Sunsongs”) are three vocal settings written to the composer’s own Danish …
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