Publications
Winter 2024:
Article, “On Teaching About Music and the Environment” in
IMPACT, Journal of BU Interdisciplinary Center of Teaching and Learning, 13.1, Winter 2024, p. 32
https://sites.bu.edu/impact/files/2024/03/Impact-Winter-2024-Final-Version-030624.pdf
Spring 2024:
Book Chapter in-press, “Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City “Upon the Sea” from 1938 to 1949” in Seeking Refuge in Asia from the Holocaust 1938-1945 (Shelter from the Storm), ed. D. McGetchin, J. Cho, E. Kurlander, Routledge.
Performances
Winter 2024
Manifold Muses: French and Spanish Music & Poetry, featuring works by Debussy, Germaine Tailleferre, Joaquin Nin, Enrique Granados, Isaac Albeniz and others. Poetry by Stéphane Mallarmé, Federico García Lorca and others. With Rachel Vetter Huang violinist, and guest poetry readers Javier Ramirez, 2024 O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor and Scott Orellana Inglés Scoggins, Strategic Partnership and Development Coordinator at Anahuacalmecac University Preparatory, Balch Auditorium.
Spring 2024
Inspiraciones relacionadas: poesía y música española e hispánica, música de Joaquín Nin, Isaac Albeniz, Carlos Chávez, Tania León; poemas de Federico García Lorca, Julia de Burgos, Antonio Machado, otros. Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA.
Service:
Winter 2024
Co-hosted Gabrielino-Shoshone tribal council spiritual elder Javier Ramirez as an O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor in Native American/Indigenous Studies February 12-16 with Prof. Claudia Arteaga. Ramirez visited several NAIS classes at Scripps and Pomona, met with Scripps CIDE, Joshua Thunder Little (Associate Director, Native American Initiatives at Pomona), and informally with other TCC students, faculty and staff; presented a public lecture, ““Indigeneity and Intercultural Experiences in the Abya Yala.”
Spring 2024
Initiator and co-leader, workshop at The Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity (HIVE), “Making Music from Nature,” on how to produce soundscapes from field recordings of environmental sounds (biophony, geophony, and anthropophony) made at the Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station.
https://colleges.claremont.edu/thehive/event/making-music-from-nature/