Dr Margaret Walker’s chapter “The ‘Nautch’, the Veil and the Bayadère: The Indian Nautch as Musical Nexus” has just been published in The Music Road: Coherence and Diversity from the Mediterranean to India, a British Academy Proceedings volume and outcome of the Balzan Project “Towards a Global
Dr Dean Burry (composer) and Yvette Nolan (librettist) have won the 2020 Dora Mavor Moore Outstanding New Opera Award for Shanawdithit (co-commissioned and co-produced by Tapestry Opera and Opera on the Avalon). WINNERS Congratulations!
Dianne Baird, Darrell Bryan, Dean Burry, and Colleen Renihan represented the Dan School at Opera.ca, Opera McGill, and Opéra de Montréal’s first annual Education and Artist Training Summit: Opera’s Changing Worlds, September 22-23, 2018 at Opera McGill.
New Dan School faculty member Kornel Wolak presents a podcast with “Double Duo” member Michael Bridge about rehearsing and arranging music for their unique ensemble. https://www.clarineat.com/92/ Dr Kornel’s 2017 book Articulation Types for Clarinet (Music Mind Inc.) was also favourably reviewed in The Clarinet (September 2018). http://clarinet.org/the-clarinet-journal/
On May 16, 2019, Shanawdithit, a new opera by Dan School professor Dr. Dean Burry and librettist Yvette Nolan premiered in Toronto. Shanawdithit centres on the story of Shanawdithit (1801-1829), thought at the time of her death to be the last member of the Beothuk Nation in what is now called Newfoundland.
Kip Pegley recently contributed a chapter to a new undergraduate textbook entitled Music and War in the United States (Routledge, 2019). The authors included in this volume explore the importance of music in conflicts spanning from the American Revolution to the Iraq War and Kip’s chapter, entitled
As part of the recent conference of the Canadian University Music Society at the Congress of the Humanities in Vancouver, Dylan Robinson and Margaret Walker participated in a Roundtable on Decolonization and Action with Rex Smallboy, Mary Ingraham, and Ellen Waterman on June 8, 2019.
The Dan School hosted the American Musicological Society NYSSL Chapter conference on 16-17 April. Convened by Colleen Renihan with further local arrangements by Julia Brook, it included presentations by Robin Attas, Rebecca Draisey-Collishaw, Kip Pegley, and Margaret Walker.
On 29-30 March 2019, Margaret Walker presented a paper entitled The Body, The Archive and The Score: Analysis of “A Gath or Hindostanee Dance” at the Symposium honouring the retirement of Professor James Kippen from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music: The Performing Scholar: History, Theory and Embodied Knowledge