Professional News

Joseph Darby (Music Department) presented the paper “The Early Marketing of Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos” at the 31st Annual Conference of the College Music Society’s Northeast Region, held March 19-20 at the University of Vermont. An examination of London newspapers in 1739-40 reveals that the efforts to market G.F. Handel’s Twelve Grand Concertos were substantially greater than existing documentary studies suggest. These advertisements – subscription proposals, concert ads, publication announcements, and retail sales ads – provide insight into the early marketing, publication, performance, and reception of the concertos. These sources also shed light on the relationship of Handel’s opus 6 to a wider practice of issuing large instrumental works by subscription in eighteenth-century Britain.

Steven Spiegel, Associate Director of the Global Education Office, was awarded a travel grant to participate in NAFSA: Association of International Educations Advocacy Day in Washington D.C. on March 16-17. The purpose of NAFSA Advocacy Day is to promote the importance of international education and legislation related to the global exchange of students and scholars with the Congress.

Skye Stephenson presented a paper at the Association of Academic Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean (AAPLAC) conference in Managua, Nicaragua on February 19 on “Sacred Visions and Values from Indigenous Education,” as part of a panel on “Understanding the ‘Other’ in Study Abroad.”