Ashley Fure, Assistant Professor of Music, is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music.  Read the full story in the Dartmouth News.

Dartmouth College will be offering an “Introduction to German Opera” MOOC (free online course), taught by Professor Steve Swayne, starting in 8 weeks on Tuesday, April 11.  The 4-week self-paced course is offered through EdX.  Check out the trailer and information about registering for the course here:
 
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-german-opera-dartmouthx-dart-mus-02x
 
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"The Music of Central Asia is like its subject: vast, variegated, resonant, and rich in musical traditions that have remained all too closed to outsiders for centuries. The book is both authoritative and innovative, ringing with regional voices and dozens of well-chosen examples of cultural riches to be sampled and savored by both specialists and students." —Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University

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Alice Gregory features Assistant Professor Ashley Fure in an article in The New York Times about women in the history of classical music.

"IN THE SUMMER OF 2014, “Something to Hunt,” by the American composer Ashley Fure, 32 at the time, had its premiere at the prestigious Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany.... In August, Ms. Fure returned to Darmstadt for the biannual festival’s 70th anniversary. The organizers had furnished her with...