Emeritus Faculty News

Teaching Professor Emeritus Dr. Jeremy Haladyna contributed an essay, titled “Villa-Lobos Vindicated (At Last): A Pan-American Prescription,” to the October 2020 issue of the Brazilian music journal ORFEU. In the essay, Haladyna argues that the “New World” can lay claim to new confidence as to musical matters: it can now rival Europe, at least as to raw material. He seeks to bolster this assertion with a look into three specific areas: rhythm, tuning, and contextualization. Haladyna retired from UC Santa Barbara in June 2019, after serving over 25 years on the composition faculties of both the Department of Music and the College of Creative Studies.

Professor Emeritus Dr. Joel Feigin’s opera, Outcast at the Gate, is now available to view online via the composer’s YouTube channel. The video is a pre-recorded performance of a presentation by the Center for Contemporary Opera, which took place on June 14, 2019 at Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre in New York, NY. This semi-staged public workshop featured half of the original work and was directed by Sara Erde and conducted by Sara Jobin, with Tracey Woolley as Production Stage Manager. Feigin served as Professor of Composition at UC Santa Barbara from 1992-2015. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau and with Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School.