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This year, Chris Shultis became the first Music Department faculty member to receive a Regents’ Professorship. “It’s a real honor to be chosen for this award,” says Shultis, who has taught at UNM for twenty years. Already, he has spent some of the $8,300 he will receive annually during the next three years to buy a new piano, which has assisted his composing. In fact, on a snowy morning in late February, Shultis added the final touches to a little light in great darkness, his most recent composition. The title comes from Canto 116, a poem by Ezra Pound. |
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The fellowship also will enable Shultis to continue a project he began last year when he was teaching at the University of Heidelberg in Germany on a Senior Scholar Fulbright. At the International Music Institute Darmstadt, he conducted research on American composer John Cage’s 1958 visit there for a chapter entitled “Cage in Europe” that will be included in The Cambridge Companion to John Cage. | |
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| A sketch that translates into musical equivalents the pattern of leaves found at the top of the plant. This sketch was used in the piece a little light in great darkness. |
A plant growing out of the grave of Ezra Pound. |
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During his research, Shultis discovered interesting connections and differences between what Germans and Americans call New Music. The Regents’ Professorship will enable Shultis to return to Germany this summer and continue looking at those connections and differences. He anticipates his work will result in a book-length project. Shultis also plans to include his research in a graduate-level Twentieth Century music class next fall. During the spring 2002 semester, he will teach a class on John Cage. |
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from the Departments Art & Art History |
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