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Focus on Faculty is a great resource for everyone to quickly discover what is happening with individual Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts faculty members.
Jere Humphreys, Professor, Music
12/20/11
Professor of Music Education Jere Humphreys in October 2011 addressed graduate music students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In November, he described his chapter on music teacher identity at a symposium held at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington. The symposium and book were in honor of the retirement of Charles P. Schmidt of Indiana University. This festschrift is comprised of 20 essays by leading scholars in music education, most of whom are Professor Schmidt’s former students, mentors, colleagues and friends, among them Harold Abeles (Columbia), Donna Brink Fox (Eastman), Estelle Jorgensen and Peter Miskra (Indiana), Anthony Kemp (University of Reading, U.K.), Clifford Madsen (Florida State), and Joanne Rutkowski (Penn State). The book was edited by Patrice Ward-Steinman of Indiana University and published by Ashgate in June of 2011.
In December 2011, Humphreys was re-elected to the ACLU of Arizona Board of Directors. The board then re-elected him to the office of vice-president from which he oversees board personnel matters. He was also reappointed to the board’s executive and bylaws committees.
Project Date: October-December 2011
Jere Humphreys, Professor, Music
11/22/11
Professor of music education Jere Humphreys presented a keynote speech at the Western Hemisphere conference of the International Society for Music Education: the 1st Pan American ISME Regional Conference (1st North American ISME Conference and 8th Latin American ISME Conference). The South American Program Committee invited Humphreys to present at this conference, which took place in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, in August 2011. The speech, titled “Patterns of Change in Music Education in the Western Hemisphere: What We Can and Cannot Do,” traced major changes in music education to large political, social, and economic shifts. In addition to this well-received speech, Humphreys presented a paper at the same conference in which he reassessed commonly held beliefs on music teacher identity.
Project Date: August 2011
Benjamin Levy, Assistant Professor, Music
11/4/11
Ben Levy, assistant professor of music theory in the ASU School of Music in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, was given the Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory at its 2011 annual meeting in Minneapolis.
The recognition, given to a scholar in the early stages of his or her career, is one of the SMT’s major publication awards. Levy earned it for his article, “Shades of the Studio: Electronic Influences on Ligeti’s Apparitions,” published in .Perspectives of New Music.
Since arriving at ASU, Levy has been actively presenting his studies of György Ligeti’s innovative compositional techniques at national and international conferences, including those of the Society for Music Theory, the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, invited talks at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, and at institutions throughout the United States.
Project Date: October 2011