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For many years, I’ve prided myself on being a musician — someone who knew the notes, rhythms, and techniques of music well enough to find a deeper love for the art form. I knew music, I told myself; I could easily pick up on any of it! Yet, it only took two hour-long lessons in the chaotically beautiful symphony of Javanese Gamelan music to completely flip my worldview on its head.

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After studying at Oxford for almost a year, Lucas Jonathan Wang Zheng ’23 is returning to Hamilton with a newfound love for research and a nearly completed Emerson project that focuses on the affordability of musical education among middle-class, late Victorian-era English women. He hopes that his findings will help fill the gap in economic and social historical musicology.

Lydia Hamessley, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Music, presented “Who Gets Played? Women in Country Music – Then and Now” in a virtual lecture at Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning.

Lydia Hamessley, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Music, recently contributed an essay to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry website.

The July-September issue of The Nashville Musician features a review of Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton by Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley. The book was published last year by the University of Illinois Press.

President David Wippman recently announced the appointment of four Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All will be effective July 1, 2021. Tina Hall was appointed the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Teaching Excellence; Lydia Hamessley was awarded the Eugene R. Tobin Distinguished Professorship; Doran Larson was named the Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature; and Quincy Newell was appointed the Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences.

Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen recognized 10 faculty members with Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards in three categories at the May 19 faculty meeting.

For the past month, Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley has been hitting the virtual road to talk about her book, Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton, published last fall by the University of Illinois Press.

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