Category: Milestones
Spring 2013 Graduates
We congratulate this spring’s graduates!
Basil Considine, PhD in Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology (double concentration)
- Basil’s dissertation: Priests, Pirates, Opera Singers, and Slaves: Séga and European Art Music in Mauritius, ‘The Little Paris of the Indian Ocean.” This sweeping musical history and ethnography of Mauritius describes the evolution of music on this island in the southern Indian Ocean from its first human colonization in the 17th century to its present day – a chronicle brimming with anecdotes of pirates, drunken priests, colorful opera singers, runaway slaves, and more. (abstract available online)
- Basil has been selected as a participant for the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute “Empires and Interactions across the Early Modern World, 1400–1800.”
Megan Ross, MMus, Historical musicology
- Megan’s thesis: The Second Finale of Beethoven’s String Quartets Opus 130: A Study of the Composer Score and Autograph Manuscript.
- Megan will begin the PhD program in musicology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the fall.
Megan Ross (right) and Stephanie Burke (left), MMus., flute
Kate Stringer, MMus, Historical musicology
- Kate’s thesis, Subverted Modernism: Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt.
