Recipients of 'Music & Letters' Awards

The Editorial Board has made grants to the following towards costs in connection with the projects indicated: Julie Brown for assistance with the costs of travelling to New York to present a paper at the 'Music and Moving Image' Conference (New York); Michael Byde for a contribution towards the costs of attending and presenting a paper at the conference of the North American British Music Studies Association (Toronto); Avior Byron towards the costs of researching a book on Arnold Schoenberg; Carrie Churnside to attend the Conference on Baroque Music (Leeds); Rachel Cowgill to attend the conference of the North American British Music Studies Association (Toronto); Bronwyn Irene Ellis towards the cost of attending two conferences: 'Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England' (Manchester), and 'Early Music: Context and Ideas II' (Krakoów); Deniz Ertan towards the publication costs of her book Dane Rudhyar; Heng Ching Fang to attend the 'Performing Romantic Music: Theory and Practice' conference (Durham); Sarah Hibberd towards the costs of her monograph, French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination; Alan Howard towards the costs of the conference 'Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth-Century England' (Manchester); Pamela Karantonis towards the cost of the 'Opera Indigene' conference; George Kennaway to attend three conferences to give papers: Nineteenth-Century Music (Dublin), 'Performing Romantic Music' (Durham), and the Royal Musical Association (Aberdeen); Francis Knights to study manuscripts in Devon as part of his Ph.D. research; Claire Launchbury to attend the American Musicological Society meeting in Nashville in November 2008; Sue Miller to travel to Cuba to record Charanga performance; Rachel Moore to attend the Royal Musical Association conference (Aberdeen); Mekala Padmanabhan to attend the Royal Musical Association conference (Aberdeen); Ardal Powell to attend the Seminar on Music in Britain (London); Peter J. D. Scott to attend the Medieval and Renaissance Music conference (Bangor); Neta Spiro to attend the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition (Sapporo, Japan); Vassilis Vavoulis for travel to Hanover to study and publish an edition of Antonino e Pompeiano by Sartorio; StephanieVial to attend the 'Performing Romantic Music' conference (Durham).