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Emanuel Rubin, professor
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Emanuel
Rubin is Professor of Music History and Judaic Studies at the University
of Massachusetts—Amherst, where he has taught since 1985. He
holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of Pittsburgh as well
as a Master’s Degree in Composition from Brandeis University
and degrees in both Music Performance and Music Education from Carnegie-Mellon
University. He was Chair of the Music Department at The University
of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and Head of the School of Music at Ball
State University befre coming the UMass, and has held guest professorships
at Haifa University, The Technion, and Ben Gurion University in
Israel.
Professor
Rubin has published and lectured extensively in three principal
areas: Jewish Music, English Music, and American Music. He is the
author of Music in Jewish History and Culture (Syracuse University
Press, 2001), The English Glee in the Reign of George III (Harmonie
Park Press, 2001), and The Warren Collection (Mellifont Press, 1971).
He has contributed chapters to such books as Dvo_ák in America
( Amadeus Press, 1993), Cultivating Music in America (University
of California Press, 1997), The 'Music Information Explosion' and
Its Implication for College Teachers and Students ( College Music
Society, 1992), and Opera and the Golden West: The Past, Present,
and Future of Opera in the U. S. A., (Associated University Presses,
1994). He is also the composer of a number of original compositions
for voices and instruments in various large and small combinations.
His music is published by Transcontinental Press.
His
articles and reviews have appeared in World Literature Today, American
Music, Performance Practice Review, Symposium: Journal of the College
Music Society, Proceedings of the National Association of Schools
of Music, as well as other professional journals. He has written
Recording notes for Chandos , Vox, and Spectrum Records, has prepared
radio and television shows on music, and has been active as both
a choral and orchestral conductor.
He
has won grants for the creation of Jewish Music festivals, chamber
music series, master classes in voice, jazz workshops, and city-wide
music festivals, as well as research awards. In the Spring Semester
of 2001 he held a John Adams Fellowship at the University of London.
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