Recipients of ‘Music & Letters’ Awards

The Editorial Board has made grants to the following towards costs in connection with the projects indicated: Jane Angell towards the expenses of the conference ‘The Music of War, 1914–1918’; Jeremy Barham towards the expenses of the conference ‘Hollywood’s Musical Contemporaries and Competitors in the Early Sound Film Era’; Maria Carrillo to attend the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Michigan; Stephen Downes towards the costs of the 4th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group; David Fligg for speakers’ travel expenses at the conference ‘Continuities and Ruptures: Artistic Responses to Jewish Migration, Internment and Exile in the Long Twentieth Century’, Leeds, July 2014; Kenneth Gloag towards the publication costs of a book on Harrison Birtwistle; Natasha Loges towards the publication costs of Brahms in the Home; Markus Rathey towards the costs of a research trip to the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Berlin to study documents associated with J. S. Bach; John Rink for student bursaries for CMPCP’s Performance Studies Network’s Third International Conference, Cambridge, July 2014; Claire Rowden and Monika Hennemann towards the costs of the conference ‘Translation in Music: An International Interdisciplinary Symposium’, May 2014, Cardiff University and Welsh National Opera; Floris Schuiling for travel and accommodation costs of attending the conference ‘Tracking the Creative Process in Music’, Montréal, October 2013; Neta Spiro towards expenses of attending the 3rd International Conference of the International Association for Music & Medicine, June 2014, Toronto; Aidan Thomson towards the expenses of a research trip to study manuscripts of works by Arnold Bax for the purposes of contributing to a publication; David Trippett to fund student bursaries and the costs of speakers’ travel expenses for the conference ‘Creativity, Circulation, Copyright: Music in the Digital Age’, Cambridge, March 2014; Joshua Walden for the publication costs of his article ‘The “Yidishe Paganini”: Sholem Aleichem’s Stempenyu, the Music of Yiddish Theatre, and the Character of the Shtetl Fiddler’; Laryssa Whittaker to undertake field work and to present a paper at the ‘Contesting Freedoms Colloquium’, Pretoria, South Africa, March 2014.