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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …