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Summer 2008
Welcome, New Faculty
Martin D. Jean
In the 2008-09 academic year we welcome two familiar faces to the ISM and one new one.
The bells are still pealing in celebration of Peter Hawkins’s return to Yale. You can read a full report on Prof. Hawkins and his work in the April 2007 edition of Prism. Peter taught religion and literature at Yale before leaving in 2000 to go to Boston University. Here he was a member of the Religion faculty and directed the Luce program in Scripture and the Literary Arts, an interdisciplinary program which explored the literary afterlife of the Bible. Peter now returns to the ISM and YDS having conducted a number of new studies at BU which produced books such as Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs; Medieval Readings of Romans; and From the Margin I: Women of the Hebrew Bible and Their Afterlives (2008). Peter will teach courses familiar to many ISM graduates on the work of Dante, the literature of the Passion, and modern religious poets. Additionally, he will teach a course on Genesis and its literary afterlife with Professor of Hebrew, Victoria Hoffer, lecturer in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.
Gordon Lathrop will again be Visiting Professor of Liturgical Studies, and this year he will also serve as Acting Assistant Dean for Chapel while Siobhán Garrigan is on leave. Professor Lathrop visits from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, where he is Charles A. Schieren Professor of Liturgy, Emeritus. Previously, he taught at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa; was campus pastor at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington; and served as parish pastor in Darlington, Wisconsin. He has been a Lutheran pastor for 36 years, twenty of which have been spent at the Seminary in Philadelphia. Among other books, he is the author of Holy Things: A Liturgical Theology (Fortress 1993), Holy People: A Liturgical Ecclesiology (Fortress, 1999), Holy Ground: A Liturgical Cosmology (Fortress, 2003), Central Things: Worship in Word and Sacrament (Augsburg Fortress, 2005), and The Pastor: A Spirituality (Fortress, 2006). Together with Timothy Wengert, he has also published Christian Assembly: Marks of the Church in a Pluralistic Age (Fortress 2004). He has lectured widely, been a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and, in the 1990s, was a participant in Faith and Order consultations on worship and Christian unity, and Lutheran World Federation consultations on worship and culture. He is an associate editor of the journal Worship and was the tenth president of the North American Academy of Liturgy. |
Robin Leaver is a long-time friend of the Institute but this year will be his first on the faculty as he fills in for Margot Fassler who is on leave for the year. Professor Leaver is internationally recognized as a hymnologist, musicologist, liturgical expert, Bach scholar, and Reformation specialist, who has authored numerous books and articles in the cross-disciplinary areas of liturgy, church music, theology, and hymnology, A primary area of Professor Leaver’s research is Lutheran church music in which he has made significant contributions to Luther, Schütz, Bach, Brahms, and other studies. A festschrift was recently published in his honor, Theology and Music: Essays in Honor of Robin A Leaver, edited by Daniel Zager (Scarecrow Press); his major study, Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications (Eerdmans) was published in 2007; and his latest book, A Communion Sunday in Scotland ca. 1780: Liturgies and Sermons, is forthcoming. Professor Leaver has taught at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, Drew University, Madison, and is currently visiting professor at the Juilliard School, New York City, and at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. His honors include: Winston Churchill Fellow, Honorary Member of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, and Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. He is a past president of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Hymnologie and of the American Bach Society.
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TOO SPLENDID FOR SPEECH BUT RIPE FOR A SONG
OUP/ISM Sacred Music Workshop
Saturday, September 27 / 9 am – 4 pm
ISM Great Hall
Join with us for a day to explore Oxford’s newest sacred and Christmas musical offerings. Complimentary packets of music (at least $125 value) will be available to all attendees. The two reading sessions will be team led by Marguerite L. Brooks and Thomas Troeger, and will offer suggestions – concrete and creative – for integrating the music into the service. There will also be two special interest sessions led by R. Walden Moore and Marguerite L. Brooks.
There is a registration fee of $35.00 in advance of the workshop, payable by check or credit card only, or $50.00 if paying at the door (cash only). If you plan on paying at the door, we must have advance notification that you will be attending.
Schedule of Events
8:30 Registration, introductions, and announcements
9:00 Reading Session I: Marguerite L. Brooks and Thomas Troeger (with a coffee break)
12:00 Box lunch (provided)
1:00 Special interest sessions: Marguerite L. Brooks and R. Walden Moore
2:45 Reading Session II: Marguerite L. Brooks and Thomas Troeger
Evening Dinner (on your own)
8:00 Free concert: Heinavanker Ensemble
Renaissance music of Johannes Ockeghem and Estonian folk hymns / Marquand Chapel
For more information, contact Phillip Cheah at (212) 726-6109 or e-mail at phillip.cheah@oup.com. A registration form is available here.
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Musical Offerings
Schola Cantorum’s new CD of the St. John Passion on the Gothic label, whose release was announced in the March Prism, has been reviewed by Brian Clark for Early Music Review. The review -- including a most favorable mention of the ISM! -- is reprinted below in its entirety, with permission.
"The 1725 version of Bach’s St John Passion has not often been recorded. The most obvious differences between this and the original (performed in Leipzig one year earlier) are the outer movements – the final chorale from 1724 is replaced by a setting of the German version of the Agnus Dei, while instead of the opening chorus 'Herr unser Herrscher', Bach uses the movement which would eventually close the first part of his St Matthew Passion. As Markus Rathey’s informative notes state, this changes the liturgical emphasis of the entire work; instead of glorifying God, the Passion now highlights human sin and the necessity and wonder of Christ’s death for the redemption of mankind....
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The ISM Study Trip to the Balkans
From the Director's Desk
Martin D. Jean
The 2008 ISM study trip was four years in the making. Already while planning the 2006 trip to Mexico we had our sights set on southeastern Europe as a possible next venue. There were many reasons for this: the close proximity of so many different religious communities (Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Orthodox); the rich and varied practices of worship, music, and arts within those cultures, and, of course, our daily access here at Yale to one of the world’s great theologians, Miroslav Volf, who calls that part of the world home. | read more
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Composite Portrait of the Study Tour
compiled by Robert Bolyard
It is hard to describe, and harder still to overstate, the value and impact – educational and personal – of the ISM study trip to the Balkans this spring. To complement the article by Prof. Novakovic in the last issue, we have compiled reflections written by students from both the musical and divinity sides of the ISM aisle highlighting those moments which most spoke to them and their area of study. We hope that Prism readers will get a glimpse of the trip from different perspectives and disciplines, and of the unique views of some of our students. | read them all
Our Balkan Experience: Tourism or Pilgrimage? Jennifer Freeman | read it
Penzar, Pipes, Performance: Organs in the Balkans John Allegar | read it
Songs in a Strange Land: Our Balkan Musical Odyssey Robert Bolyard | read it
Reading the Landscape Noel M. Hennelly | read it
The Sound of History: A Musical Heritage Melanie Russell | read it
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In memoriam
Xenia Simons Miller
Xenia Simons Miller, 90, the widow of J. Irwin Miller, and a benefactor of the ISM, died on February 19, 2008 at her home in Columbus, Indiana.
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2008 Study Tour to the Balkans photos
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2008 Commencement Banquet photos
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Pan Baltic Choral Series
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Lana Schwebel
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Faculty News
Margot Fassler cavorts with Beatle; Jaime Lara's book to be subject of symposium
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Student News
Last fall, when we introduced the new students to Prism readers, John Allegar was inadvertently omitted. Here he is, mid-career at the ISM!
John Allegar has just completed his first year at the ISM as an organ student of Martin Jean. He is a recent graduate of Valparaiso University, where he graduated summa cum laude. Allegar is a member of various academic societies, including Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Delta Pi, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He looks forward to an exciting second year at Yale.
Alumni File Update
ISM Grads: Help keep us up to date. Please provide us with your current position and place of work, if applicable, and your current e-mail address. Send to albert.agbayani@yale.edu at the Institute. Thank you! |
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