For the Record, Sept. 25, 2015
University community reports performances, presentations, publications
9:53 a.m., Sept. 25, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent performances, presentations and publications include the following:
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Reviresco June run
Performances
John David Smith, professor of music, has received several high profile performance invitations this fall. In the Philadelphia area, Smith will be playing this weekend in advance of Pope Francis’ internationally televised speech on immigration at Independence Hall, in a performance of Copland’s A Fanfare for the Common Man by the Philly Pops Brass that also will include UD tuba instructor Brian Brown. Smith also has performed as principal horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia in a world premiere performance by acclaimed young pianist/composer Conrad Tao, and is in the midst of rehearsals for Verdi’s La Traviata at Opera Philadelphia, where he also serves as principal horn.
Smith has been engaged by the San Francisco Opera for performances this season of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg at the War Memorial Opera House, and the invitation came largely as a result of his ongoing work in Philadelphia and extensive previous experience with the Metropolitan Opera. Following a summer appearance at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival and Central Park with the internationally acclaimed Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Smith has been invited to join the ensemble again this season for concerts in Florida and Carnegie Hall.
On campus, in addition to his duties in the Horn Studio, Smith leads the Artistic Innovations graduate seminar, a music entrepreneurship initiative of the Department of Music. He recently received a College of Arts and Sciences Delaware Difference Development Incentive grant to bring industry professionals to the seminar to work with students on their own arts industry proposals.
Presentations
Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Professor of History, presented “The Eighteenth Century in Iranian Historiography: Nader Shah: Warlord or National Hero?” at the Seventh Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, held at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 8-11. He also spoke on “Cruel Beginnings: Shah Safi I (r. 1629-1642), and his Rise to Power,” at the Eight European Conference on Iranian Studies, held at the State Hermitage Museum in in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sept. 15-19.
Publications
Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, is author of the lead article in the current issue (5:2, 2015) of the journal Victoriographies, an Edinburgh University Press periodical. Her essay, “The Late-Victorian ‘New Man’ and the Neo-Victorian ‘Neo-Man,'" contrasts representations of masculinity in work by late 19th-century British feminist writers with the versions of masculinity that have appeared in 20th- and 21st century historical fiction set in the Victorian period.
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